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We predict that in InAs/GaSb nanowires with an inverted band alignment a transverse electric field induces a collapse of the hybridization gap, and a semimetal phase occurs. We use a self-consistent k.p approach and an adapted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Andrea Vezzosi , Andrea Bertoni , Marco Gibertini , Guido Goldoni

Recently, topological superconductors have emerged as a pivotal frontier in condensed matter physics, owing to the exotic properties of Majorana quasiparticles residing on edges, surfaces, and vortex cores. In this work, we investigate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Huan-Wen Lai , Meng-Chien Wang , Ching-Ray Chang , Seng-Ghee Tan

We study hybrid superconducting-semiconducting nanowires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction as well as helical magnetic fields. We show that the interplay between them leads to a competition of phases with two topological gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Jelena Klinovaja , Peter Stano , Daniel Loss

We show anomalous features of Majorana Bound State leakage in the situation where topological Rashba nanowire is dimerized according to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) scenario and an impurity is present at one of the ends of the system. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-30 A. Kobiałka , A. Ptok

We study the topological properties of a twisted superconducting bilayer with spin-singlet pairings and Rashba spin-orbital coupling. By introducing the chirality basis, we obtain the effective odd-parity superconductors with the help of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-05 Conghao Lin , Xiancong Lu

The critical current of a superconductor can depend on the direction of current flow due to magnetochiral anisotropy when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken, an effect known as the superconducting (SC) diode effect. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

The Rashba effect as an electrically tunable spin-orbit interaction is the base for a multitude of possible applications such as spin filters, spin transistors, and quantum computing using Majorana states in nanowires. Moreover, this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Jan Raphael Bindel , Mike Pezzotta , Jascha Ulrich , Marcus Liebmann , Eugene Sherman , Markus Morgenstern

Motivated by the recent resurgence of interest in topological superconductivity, we study in this paper superconducting pairing instabilities of the hole-doped Rashba-Hubbard model on the square lattice with first- and second-neighbor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-01 Andrés Greco , Andreas P. Schnyder

The weak interlayer Van Der Waals material \{beta}-Bi2Pd has recently been established as a strong topological superconductor candidate with unconventional spin-triplet pairing and Majorana zero modes at vortices. In this letter, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Xin-Hai Tu , Peng-Fei Liu , Wen Yin , Jun-Rong Zhang , Ping Zhang , Bao-Tian Wang

We demonstrate that the interplay between structural geometry and Rashba spin-orbit coupling generates nontrivial topological phases in honeycomb nanoribbon heterostructures. We consider an armchair nanoribbon in which a Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Hao-Ru Wu , Jhih-Shih You , Yiing-Rei Chen , Hong-Yi Chen

We show that the boundary charge and spin can be used as alternative signatures of the topological phase transition in topological models such as semiconducting nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Marcel Serina , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Predictions of topological p-wave superconductivity and Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires have been difficult to realize experimentally. Consequently, researchers are actively exploring alternative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Francisco Lobo , Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the Fermi arcs of topological Dirac semimetals. The Rashba coupling is induced by breaking the inversion symmetry at the surface. Remarkably, this coupling could be enhanced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Gloria Platero , Rafael A. Molina

We investigate the emergence of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the two-dimensional electron gas formed at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (001) interface. Using a realistic multiband tight binding model that incorporates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Piotr Żeberek , Paweł Wójcik

In this work, we show that a quasi-one-dimensional $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a topological superconductor (TS). This time-reversal invariant DIII class TS supports two topologically protected zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-31 L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

The ferromagnetic metal-superconductor heterostructure with interface Rashba spin-orbit hopping is a promising candidate for topological superconductivity. We study the interplay between the interface Rashba hopping and the intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-15 Yingwen Zhang , Dao-Xin Yao , Zhi Wang

Proposals for studying topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in nanowires proximity coupled to superconductors require that transport in the nanowire is ballistic. Previous work on hybrid nanowire-superconductor systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 S. T. Gill , J. Damasco , D. Car , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , N. Mason

Tunneling experiment is a key technique for detecting Majorana fermion in solid state systems. We use Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function method to study multi-lead tunneling in superconducting nanowire with Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jia-Bin You , Xiao-Qiang Shao , Qing-Jun Tong , A. H. Chan , C. H. Oh , Vlatko Vedral

Tunneling conductance of a clean normal metal/d-wave superconductor junction is studied by using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism. We show that the conductance is significantly affected by the interface spin-orbit coupling of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Wu , K. V. Samokhin