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We suggest that a spin-charge separating ansatz, leading to non-Abelian $SU(2) \otimes U_S(1)$ gauge symmetries in doped antiferromagnets, proposed earlier as a way of describing Kosterlitz-Thouless superconducting gaps at the nodes of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Farakos , G. Koutsoumbas , N. E. Mavromatos

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

Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to show such a topological state rely on proximity-induced…

On the basis of our calculation we deduce that the particular electronic structure of cuprate superconductors confines Cooper pairs to be firstly formed in the antinodal region which is far from the Fermi surface, and these pairs are…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Tian De Cao

We study a magnetic proximity effect at superconductor (S) - ferromagnet (F) interface. It is shown that due to an exchange of electrons between the F and S metals ferromagnetic correlations extend into the superconductor, being dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 V. N. Krivoruchko , E. A. Koshina

In a flat band superconductor, bosonic excitations can disperse while unpaired electrons are immobile. To study this strongly interacting system, we construct a family of multi-band Hubbard models with exact eta-pairing ground states in all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-02 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Aaron Chew , Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Päivi Törmä , B. Andrei Bernevig

We have rigorously shown that a strong Hubbard repulsion can cause superconductivity. The model, which has a particular set of local symmetries, manifests the phase diagram of many unconventional superconductors; anti-ferromagnetism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-16 Manjinder Kainth , M. W. Long

Periodically driven quantum many-body systems host unconventional behavior not realized at equilibrium. Here we investigate such a setup for strongly interacting spinless fermions on a chain, which at zero temperature and strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-15 Alexander Osterkorn , Constantin Meyer , Salvatore R. Manmana

Interfacing s-wave superconductors and quantum spin Hall edges produces time-reversal-invariant topological superconductivity of a type that can not arise in strictly 1D systems. With the aim of establishing sharp fingerprints of this novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 David Aasen , Shu-Ping Lee , Torsten Karzig , Jason Alicea

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess conducting edge states at their boundary while being insulating in the bulk. The detection of edge states remains an open question in ultracold atom setups. We propose a configuration to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-30 Bernhard Irsigler , Jun-Hui Zheng , Walter Hofstetter

We theoretically investigate the heterostructure between a ferrimagnetic Mott insulator and a time-reversal invariant topological band insulator on the two-dimensional Lieb lattice with periodic boundary conditions. Our Hartree-Fock and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Rahul Ghosh , Subhajyoti Pal , Kush Saha , Anamitra Mukherjee

Time-reversal invariant superconductors having nodes of vanishing excitation gap support zero-energy boundary states with topological protection. Existing expressions for the topological invariant are given in terms of the Hamiltonian of an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-29 J. P. Dahlhaus , M. Gibertini , C. W. J. Beenakker

In magnetic topological insulators, the surface states can exhibit a gap due to the breaking of time-reversal symmetry. Various experiments, while suggesting the existence of the surface gap, have raised questions about its underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Habib Rostami , Ali G. Moghaddam

The electronic structure at the interface between a topological band insulator and a Mott insulator is studied within layer dynamical mean field theory. To represent the bulk phases of these systems, we use the generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Ishida , A. Liebsch

We study the quasiparticle spectrum of 2D topological $s$-wave superconductors with the Zeeman magnetic field and the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity. Solving the real-space Bogoliubov-de Gennes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuki Nagai , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

I review theoretical ideas and implications of experiments for the gap structure and symmetry of the Fe-based superconductors. Unlike any other class of unconventional superconductors, one has in these systems the possibility to tune the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-12 P. J. Hirschfeld

We propose the existence of a substantial charge current parallel to the interface between a noncentrosymmetric superconductor and a metallic ferromagnet. Our analysis focuses upon two complementary orbital-angular-momentum pairing states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-29 P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm , Andreas P. Schnyder

In this article we review essential natures of superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems (SCES) from a universal point of view. After summarizing experimental results on typical materials such as high-$T_{\rm c}$ cuprates,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Yanase , Takanobu Jujo , Takuji Nomura , Hiroaki Ikeda , Takashi Hotta , Kosaku Yamada

Topological superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional systems is a novel phase of matter with possible implications for quantum computation. Despite years of effort, a definitive signature of this phase in experiments is still debated. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Omri Lesser , Andrew Saydjari , Marie Wesson , Amir Yacoby , Yuval Oreg

Interacting fermions on a lattice can develop strong quantum correlations, which lie at the heart of the classical intractability of many exotic phases of matter. Seminal efforts are underway in the control of artificial quantum systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 T. Hensgens , T. Fujita , L. Janssen , Xiao Li , C. J. Van Diepen , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , S. Das Sarma , L. M. K. Vandersypen