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High spin-Chern-number topological phases provide a promising low-dimensional platform for realizing double-helical edge states. In this letter, we show how these edge states can host a variety of phases driven by electron interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Yi-Chun Hung , Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Arun Bansil

Second-order topological superconductors host Majorana corner modes (MCMs), which are confined to specific corners of the system. This spatial restriction presents challenges for manipulating and relocating MCMs. We propose a novel protocol…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Ching-Kai Chiu , Yueh-Ting Yao , Tay-Rong Chang , Guang Bian

The recent experimental realization of 1D equal Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (ERD-SOC) for cold atoms provide a disorder-free platform for the implementation and observation of Majorana fermions (MFs), similar to the well studied…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-22 Lei Jiang , Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang

Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) superfluids, Cooper pairings with finite momentum, and Majorana fermions (MFs), quasiparticles with non-Abelian exchange statistics, are two topics under intensive investigation in the past several…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhen Zheng , Chunlei Qu , Xubo Zou , Chuanwei Zhang

We uncover a novel two-particle Berry phase mechanism to realize exotic corner modes in second-order topological insulators (TIs) and topological superconductors (TSCs) with time-reversal symmetry. We show that the nontrivial pseudospin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-14 Yi Tan , Zhi-Hao Huang , Xiong-Jun Liu

We analyze the formation of Majorana zero-modes at the edge of a two-dimensional topological superconductor. In particular, we study a time-reversal-invariant triplet phase that is likely to exist in doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$. Upon the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-23 Vo Tien Phong , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We show how angular momentum conservation can stabilise a symmetry-protected quasi-topological phase of matter supporting Majorana quasi-particles as edge modes in one-dimensional cold atom gases. We investigate a number-conserving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-24 F. Iemini , L. Mazza , L. Fallani , P. Zoller , R. Fazio , M. Dalmonte

Topological superconductors are a class of unconventional superconducting materials featuring sub-gap zero-energy Majorana bound modes that hold promise as a building block for topological quantum computing. In this work, we study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-30 Zi-Ming Wang , Meng Zeng , Chen Lu , Da-Shuai Ma , Rui-Xing Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Dong-Hui Xu

Mixed pairing in ultracold Fermi gases can give rise to interesting many-body phases, such as topological nontrivial superfluids that support Majorana zero modes (MZMs) with various spatial configurations. Unfortunately, in ordinary lattice…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-06 Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Zhen Zheng , Xu-Bo Zou

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

We theoretically investigate the behavior of dark solitons in a one-dimensional spin-orbit coupled atomic Fermi gas in harmonic traps, by solving self-consistently the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The dark soliton - to be created by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-16 Xia-Ji Liu

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

Majorana bound states often occur at the end of 1D topological superconductor or at the $\pi$ Josephson junction mediated by a helical edge state. Validated by a new bulk invariant and an intuitive edge argument, we show the emergence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Qiyue Wang , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yuan-Ming Lu , Fan Zhang

We show that in s-wave superfluids of cold fermionic atoms with laser-field-generated effective spin-orbit interactions, a topological phase with gapless edge states and Majorana fermion quasiparticles obeying the non-Abelian statistics is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-30 Masatoshi Sato , Yoshiro Takahashi , Satoshi Fujimoto

Focusing on examples of Majorana zero modes on the corners of a two-dimensional lattice, we introduce a method to find parameter regions where the Majorana modes are perfectly localized on a single site. Such a limit allows us to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Prathyush P. Poduval , Thomas L. Schmidt , Andreas Haller

Chiral Majorana hinge modes are characteristic of a second-order topological superconductor in three dimensions. Here we systematically study pairing symmetry in the point group D_{2h}, and find that the leading pairing channels can be of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-19 Bo Fu , Zi-Ang Hu , Chang-An Li , Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

We demonstrate that an exotically chiral f-wave topological superfluid can be induced in coldfermionic-atom triangular optical lattices through the laser-field-generated effective non-Abelian gauge field, controllable Zeeman fields and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-25 Ningning Hao , Guocai Liu , Ning Wu , Jiangping Hu , Yupeng Wang

Cold atoms with laser-induced spin-orbit (SO) interactions provide promising platforms to explore novel quantum physics, in particular the exotic topological phases, beyond natural conditions of solids. The past several years have witnessed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-06 Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

We propose the concept of a device based on a square-shaped sample of a two-dimensional second-order topological helical superconductor which hosts two zero-dimensional Majorana quasiparticles at the corners. The two zero-energy modes rely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Tudor E. Pahomi , Manfred Sigrist , Alexey A. Soluyanov