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Majorana corner modes appearing in two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors have great potential applications for fault-tolerant topological quantum computations. We demonstrate that in the presence of an in-plane magentic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-07 S. Ikegaya , W. B. Rui , D. Manske , Andreas P. Schnyder

Superconducting wires without time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetries can be driven into a topological phase that supports Majorana bound states. Direct detection of these zero-energy states is complicated by the proliferation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , J. P. Dahlhaus , F. Hassler , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

Superconductivity in Dirac electrons has recently been proposed as a new platform between novel concepts in high-energy and condensed matter physics. It has been proposed that supersymmetry and exotic quasiparticles, both of which remain…

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures are promising platforms for realizing topological superconductors and exploring Majorana bound states physics. Motivated by recent experimental progress, we theoretically study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. Maiani , R. Seoane Souto , M. Leijnse , K. Flensberg

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

We consider the proximity effect in a Topological Insulator sandwiched between two conventional superconductors, by comparing s-wave spin singlet superconducting pairing correlations and odd-parity triplet pairing correlations with zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Tagliacozzo , P. Lucignano , F. Tafuri

The importance of models with an exact solution for the study of materials with non-trivial topological properties has been extensively demonstrated. Among these, the Kitaev model of a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor plays a guiding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-10 T. O. Puel , P. D. Sacramento , M. A. Continentino

We study transport across a line junction lying between two orthogonal topological insulator surfaces and a superconductor which can have either s-wave (spin-singlet) or p-wave (spin-triplet) pairing symmetry. We present a formalism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Abhiram Soori , Oindrila Deb , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We numerically show that the zero-energy Majorana surface states are suppressed around a vortex in the three-dimensional topological superconductors such as Cu$_{x}$Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ and Sn$_{1-x}$In$_{x}$Te. On the other hand, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-09 Yuki Nagai , Hiroki Nakamura , Masahiko Machida

Higher-order topological superconductors and superfluids host lower-dimensional Majorana corner and hinge states since novel topology exhibitions on boundaries. While such topological nontrivial phases have been explored extensively, more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Ya-Jie Wu , Wei Tu , Ning Li

Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling and the B phase of ${}^3$He are possible realizations of topological superconductors with time-reversal symmetry. The nontrivial topology of these time- reversal invariant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-27 Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle states localized at the boundaries of topological superconductors that are expected to be ideal building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Several observations of zero-bias conductance peaks…

It has recently been shown that in every spatial dimension there exist precisely five distinct classes of topological insulators or superconductors. Within a given class, the different topological sectors can be distinguished, depending on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Shinsei Ryu , Andreas Schnyder , Akira Furusaki , Andreas Ludwig

We perform a theoretical study of the orbital effect of a magnetic field on a proximity-coupled islands array of $p_{x}+ip_{y}$ topological superconductors. To describe the system, we generalize the tight-binding model of the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

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

Coupling Majorana fermion excitations to coherent external fields is an important stage towards their manipulation and detection. We analyse the charge and transmon regimes of a topological nano-wire embedded within a Cooper-Pair-Box, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Eran Ginossar , Eytan Grosfeld

There have recently been several experiments studying induced superconductivity in semiconducting two-dimensional electron gases that are strongly coupled to thin superconducting layers, as well as probing possible topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Christopher Reeg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We show that introducing spin-singlet or spin-triplet superconductivity into twisted bilayer graphene induces higher-order topological superconductivity. $C_{2z}T$-protected corner states of Majorana Kramers pairs appear at the boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Aaron Chew , Yijie Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

We identify two fundamental properties of the Gor'kov Green's function of finite one-dimensional topological superconductors. In the low-frequency (low-energy) regime, the normal and anomalous Green's functions, which describe…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-29 Hiroto Mizoguchi , Yutaro Nagae , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

Chains of magnetic atoms, placed on the surface of s-wave superconductors, have been established as a laboratory for the study of Majorana bound states. In such systems, the breaking of time reversal due to magnetic moments gives rise to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-16 Andreas Kreisel , Timo Hyart , Bernd Rosenow