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Topological superconductivity is currently one of the prime interests, given the properties of its exotic nature of chiral edge states. A broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is an essential ingredient in the recipe of a chiral edge state.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-05 Sajid Sekh , Andrzej Ptok

Pair spin-orbit interaction can emerge in strongly-interacting systems characterized by a large spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the role of this interaction in stabilizing ordered and unconventional superconducting phases. We find that,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-30 Feng Liu , Alessandro Principi

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

We study the spin-orbit coupling in spin-triplet Cooper pairs and clarify multiple superconducting (SC) phases in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. Based on the analysis of the three-orbital Hubbard model with atomic LS coupling, we show some selection rules…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Youichi Yanase , Shuhei Takamatsu , Masafumi Udagawa

We determine the quantum phase diagram of the Hubbard chain with electron-hole symmetric correlated hopping at 1/2- and 1/4-filling using geometric concepts and continuum limit field theory. The long distance behavior of various correlation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Aligia , K. Hallberg , C. D. Batista , G. Ortiz

We study the geometric Uhlmann phase of mixed states at finite temperature in a system of two coupled spin-$\frac 1 2$ particles driven by a magnetic field applied to one of the spins. In the parameter space of temperature and coupling, we…

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 study theoretically second-order topological superconductors characterized by the presence of pairs of zero-energy Majorana corner states. We uncover a quadrupole spin polarization at the system edges that provides a striking signature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Kirill Plekhanov , Niclas Müller , Yanick Volpez , Dante M. Kennes , Herbert Schoeller , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling is the crucial parameter to drive topological insulating phases in electronic band models. In particular, the generic emergence of SO coupling involves the Rashba term which fully breaks the SU(2) spin symmetry. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Manuel Laubach , Johannes Reuther , Ronny Thomale , Stephan Rachel

We numerically investigate finite-momentum superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric metallic altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-splitting and strong Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. Focusing on a stripe phase in which Cooper pairs acquire…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Kohei Mukasa , Yusuke Masaki

High-order topological phases host robust boundary states at the boundary of the boundary, which can be interpreted from their boundary topology. In this work, considering the interplay between superconductors and magnetic fields to gap the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Xun-Jiang Luo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Xin Liu

We theoretically predict an exotic topological superfluid state with spatially modulated pairing gap in one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gases. This inhomogeneous topological superfluidity is induced by applying simultaneously a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-07 Chun Chen

The extended Hubbard model can host s-wave, d-wave and p-wave superconducting phases depending on the values of the on-site and nearest-neighbour interactions. Upon detailed examination of the free energy functional of the gap in this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Joel Hutchinson , Frank Marsiglio

We consider the time-reversal-invariant Hofstadter-Hubbard model which can be realized in cold atom experiments. In these experiments, an additional staggered potential and an artificial Rashba--type spin-orbit coupling are available.…

Recent experiments performed on cuprates and alkali-doped fullerides have demonstated that key signatures of superconductivity can be induced above the equilibrium critical temperature by optical modulation. These observations in disparate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-08 J. Coulthard , S. R. Clark , S. Al-Assam , A. Cavalleri , D. Jaksch

Recent experiments have provided evidence that one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity can be realized experimentally by placing transition metal atoms that form a ferromagnetic chain on a superconducting substrate. We address…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Jian Li , Hua Chen , Ilya K. Drozdov , A. Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig , A. H. MacDonald

We consider a two-dimensional generalization of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model which is known to possess a non-trivial topological band structure. For this model, which is characterized by a single parameter, the hopping ratio $0 \leq r\leq…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-29 Ying Wang , Gautam Rai , Stephan Haas , Anuradha Jagannathan

The realization of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in ultracold atoms has triggered an intensive exploring of topological superfluids in the degenerate Fermi gases based on mean-field theory, which has not yet been reported in experiments. Here,…

The weak-coupling renormalization group method is an asymptotically exact method to find superconducting instabilities of a lattice model of correlated electrons. Here we extend it to spin-orbit coupled lattice systems and study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-02 Sebastian Wolf , Stephan Rachel

We consider the effect of spin-orbit coupling on a two-dimensional Kondo Lattice model, in which conduction electrons are antiferromagnetically coupled to a Yao-Lee spin liquid. When a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Zekun Zhuang , Piers Coleman