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We study two-dimensional $s$-wave topological superconductivity with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field in Penrose and Ammann-Beenker quasicrystals. By solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations self-consistently for not only the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-04 Masahiro Hori , Takanori Sugimoto , Takami Tohyama , K. Tanaka

We study superconductivity in Ammann-Beenker quasicrystals under magnetic field. By assuming an intrinsic $s$-wave pairing interaction and solving for mean-field equations self-consistently, we find gapless superconductivity in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-03 Kazuma Saito , Masahiro Hori , Ryo Okugawa , K. Tanaka , Takami Tohyama

Recent years saw the complete classification of topological band structures, revealing an abundance of topological crystalline insulators. Here we theoretically demonstrate the existence of topological materials beyond this framework,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Daniel Varjas , Alexander Lau , Kim Pöyhönen , Anton R. Akhmerov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Ion Cosma Fulga

We investigate the physics of quasicrystalline models in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, focusing on the presence and construction of topological states. This is done by using the Hofstadter model but with the sites and couplings…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Callum W. Duncan , Sourav Manna , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Recently the superconductor and topological semimetal PbTaSe$_2$ was experimentally found to exhibit surface-only lattice rotational symmetry breaking below $T_c$. We exploit the Ginzburg-Landau free energy and propose a microscopic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-29 Hui-Ke Jin , Dong-Hui Xu , Yi Zhou

Topological superconductors possess a nodeless superconducting gap in the bulk and gapless zero energy modes, known as "Majorana zero modes", at the boundary of a finite system. In this work, we introduce a new class of topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Qing-Ze Wang , Chao-Xing Liu

We show that it is possible to have a topological phase in two-dimensional quasicrystals without any magnetic field applied, but instead introducing an artificial gauge field via dynamic modulation. This topological quasicrystal exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Miguel A. Bandres , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Mordechai Segev

Weyl superconductivity is a topological phase in three-dimensional crystals in which the Weyl equation describes quasiparticle excitation near band-touching points in momentum space called Weyl nodes. For quasicrystals which lack…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-09 Masahiro Hori , Ryo Okugawa , K. Tanaka , Takami Tohyama

We present a detailed study of the gap symmetry and the quasiparticle wave function topology in two-dimensional superconductors without inversion center. The strong spin-orbit coupling of electrons with the crystal lattice makes it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-09 K. V. Samokhin

Motivated by topological equivalence between an extended Haldane model and a chiral-$\pi$-flux model on a square lattice, we apply $\pi$-flux models to two-dimensional bipartite quasicrystals with rhombus tiles in order to investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Rasoul Ghadimi , Masahiro Hori , Takanori Sugimoto , Takami Tohyama

The existence of edge states and zero energy modes in vortex cores is a hallmark of topologically nontrivial phases realized in various condensed matter systems such as the fractional quantum Hall states, p+ip superconductors, and Z_2…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-03 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

Non-Abelian toplogical superconductors are characterized by the existence of {zero-energy} Majorana fermions bound in the quantized vortices. This is a consequence of the nontrivial bulk topology characterized by an {\em odd} Chern number.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-14 Jian-Hua Jiang , Si Wu

Recent research on disorder effects in topological phases in quasicrystalline systems has received much attention. In this work, by numerically computing the (spin) Bott index and the thermal conductance, we reveal the effects of disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Chun-Bo Hua , Zheng-Rong Liu , Tan Peng , Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

A time-reversal invariant topological superconductivity is suggested to be realized in a quasi-one dimensional structure on a plane, which is fabricated by filling the superconducting materials into the periodic channel of dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Nakhmedov , S. Mammadova , O. Alekperov

We investigate the properties of a Fibonacci quasicrystal (QC) arrangement of a one-dimensional topological superconductor, such as a magnetic atom chain deposited on a superconducting surface. We uncover a general mutually exclusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Aksel Kobiałka , Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Martin Leijnse , Tadeusz Domański , Patric Holmvall , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Recent theoretical and experimental studies point to a novel spin-triplet valley-singlet (STVS) superconducting phase in certain two-valley electron liquids, including rhombohedral trilayer graphene, Bernal bilayer graphene and ZrNCl. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-17 Benjamin T. Zhou , Shannon Egan , Dhruv Kush , Marcel Franz

Topological phases have been extensively studied primarily in crystalline systems with translational symmetry. Recent theoretical studies, however, have demonstrated the existence of topological phases in quasicrystals that are absent in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Mou Yan , Yu-Liang Tao , Yichong Hu , Zhenxing Cui , Jiong-Hao Wang , Gang Chen , Yong Xu

Majorana boundary quasiparticles may naturally emerge in a spin-singlet superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit interactions, when a Zeeman magnetic field breaks time-reversal symmetry. Their existence and robustness against adiabatic changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 C. Dutreix

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…

Topological materials are of great interest for applications in quantum computing, providing intrinsic robustness against environmental noises. A popular direction is to look for Majorana modes in integrated systems interfaced with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Zhigang Song
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