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We provide a conceptual framework for developing a scalable topological quantum computer. It relies on forming Majorana fermions using circular electronic gates in two-dimensional p-wave superconductors. The gates allow the precise control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Ji Ung Lee

Heterostructures of superconductors and quantum-Hall insulators are promising platforms of topological quantum computation. However, these two systems are incompatible in some aspects such as a strong magnetic field, the Meissner effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ryota Nakai , Koji Kudo , Hiroki Isobe , Kentaro Nomura

Topological superconductors offer a fertile ground for realizing Majorana zero modes -- topologically protected, zero-energy quasiparticles that are resilient to local perturbations and hold great promise for fault-tolerant quantum…

We propose a method to create two-dimensional topological superconductors with a heterostructure of ferromagnet (FM), topological insulator (TI) thin film and superconductor, in which the two surfaces of the TI thin film are treated as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-01 James Jun He , Tian Liang , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

Implementing topological superconductivity (TSC) and Majorana states (MSs) is one of the most significant and challenging tasks in both fundamental physics and topological quantum computations. In this work, taking the obstructed atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-09 Jingnan Hu , Fei Yu , Aiyun Luo , Jinyu Zou , Xin Liu , Gang Xu

A chiral superconductor has been proposed as one pathway to realize topological quantum computation utilizing the predicted Majorana normal fluid at its boundary (i.e., a point, edge, or surface). The search for experimental realizations…

Over the past fifteen years, tremendous efforts have been devoted to realizing topological superconductivity in realistic materials and systems, predominately propelled by their promising application potentials in fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-31 Wei Qin , Jiaqing Gao , Ping Cui , Zhenyu Zhang

In 2D chiral p-wave superconductors, the zero-energy Majorana fermion excitations trapped at vortex cores follow non-Abelian statistics which can be potentially exploited to build a topological quantum computer. The Majorana states are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-01 Jay D. Sau , Roman M. Lutchyn , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

We propose to realize second-order topological superconductivity in bilayer spin-polarized Fermi gas superfluids. We focus on systems with intralayer chiral $p$-wave pairing and with tunable interlayer hopping and interlayer interactions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-06 Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan , Wen Huang

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

We construct theoretical models for two dimensional(2d) chiral $d_{x^2-y^2}\pm id_{xy}$ topological superconductors and for three dimensional(3d) $d$ wave topological superconductors. Moreover we build models for any 2d class C and 3d class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Tong Chern

The intense search for topological superconductivity is inspired by the prospect that it hosts Majorana quasiparticles. We explore in this work the optimal design for producing topological superconductivity by combining a quantum Hall state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Gun Sang Jeon , J. K. Jain , C. -X. Liu

Quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructures emerged as a competitive platform to realize topological superconductors with chiral Majorana edge states as shown in recent experiments [He et al. Science {\bf 357}, 294…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-21 Chui-zhen Chen , Ying-ming Xie , Jie Liu , Patrick A Lee , K. T. Law

We show that the surface of an $s$-wave superconductor decorated with a two-dimensional lattice of magnetic impurities can exhibit chiral topological superconductivity. If impurities order ferromagnetically and the superconducting surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Jian Li , Titus Neupert , Zhi Jun Wang , A. H. MacDonald , A. Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

We present a detailed theoretical study of chiral topological superconductor phases in proximity-superconducting graphene systems based on an effective model inspired by DFT simulations. Inducing s-wave superconductivity to quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Topological superconductors (SCs) are novel phases of matter with nontrivial bulk topology. They host at their boundaries and vortex cores zero-energy Majorana bound states, potentially useful in fault-tolerant quantum computation. Chiral…

Topological superconductors are an intriguing and elusive quantum phase, characterized by topologically protected gapless surface/edge states residing in a bulk superconducting gap, which hosts Majorana fermions. Unfortunately, all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-10 Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Jia-Wei Mei , Zheng Liu , Lih-King Lim , Feng Liu

The engineering of Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors, a new paradigm for the realization of topological quantum computing and topology-based devices, has been hampered by the absence of materials with sufficiently large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-18 Eric Mascot , Sagen Cocklin , Martin Graham , Mahdi Mashkoori , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

An array of quantum wires is a natural starting point in realizing two-dimensional topological phases. We study a system of weakly coupled quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, proximity coupled to a conventional s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Inbar Seroussi , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

We investigate a mechanism to produce superconductivity by strong purely repulsive interactions for flat dispersion $\varepsilon \sim k^4$, without using pairing instability in Fermi-liquid. The resulting superconductors break both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-24 Minho Kim , Abigail Timmel , Long Ju , Xiao-Gang Wen