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The unique electronic properties of the surface electrons in a topological insulator are protected by time-reversal symmetry. Circularly polarized light naturally breaks time-reversal symmetry, which may lead to an exotic surface quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Y. H. Wang , H. Steinberg , P. Jarillo-Herrero , N. Gedik

We show that Floquet chiral topological superconductivity arises naturally in Josephson junctions made of magnetic topological insulator-superconductor sandwich structures. The Josephson phase modulation associated with an applied bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rui-Xing Zhang , S. Das Sarma

We consider a Floquet triple-layer setup composed of a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions, proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor and to a ferromagnet driven at resonance. The ferromagnetic layer generates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Kirill Plekhanov , Manisha Thakurathi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Recently, in certain flat band lattice systems at commensurate fillings, fractional quantum Hall states have been found -- which have anyonic excitations. We study such systems away from commensuration, i.e. the ground state of an anyon gas…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-13 Evelyn Tang , Xiao-Gang Wen

We study and classify the proximity-induced superconducting pairing in a topological insulator (TI)-superconductor (SC) hybrid structure for SCs with different symmetries. The Dirac surface state gives a coupling between spin-singlet and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-26 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Alexander V. Balatsky

Superconductivity was recently observed in boron-doped ($\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3}$)Sn/Si(111). The material can be described by an extended Hubbard model on a triangular lattice. Here, we use the random-phase approximation to investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Jesko Sirker

Floquet topological insulators are topological phases of matter generated by the application of time-periodic perturbations on otherwise conventional insulators. We demonstrate that spatial variations in the time-periodic potential lead to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-02 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Daniel Podolsky

Having the potential for performing quantum computation, topological superconductors have been generalized to the second-order case. The hybridization of different orders of topological superconductors is attractive because it facilitates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-19 Hong Wu , Jun-Hong An

Floquet engineering with high-frequency light offers dynamic control over topological phases in quantum materials. While in 3D Dirac systems circularly polarized light is known to induce topological phase transitions via gap opening,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Mohammad Shafiei , Farhad Fazileh , Milorad V. Milošević

From a leading-order unbiased renormalization group analysis we here showcase the emergence of superconductivity (including the topological ones) from purely repulsive electron-electron interactions in two-dimensional doped Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-26 Sk Asrap Murshed , Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

We analyze, analytically and numerically, a periodically driven Rashba nanowire proximity coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor using bosonization and renormalization group analysis in the regime of strong electron-electron interactions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Manisha Thakurathi , Pavel P. Aseev , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We present a proposal for achieving light-induced superconductivity using exciton polaritons - hybrid light-matter particles of excitons (bound electron-hole pairs) and microcavity photons. In contrast to previous theories of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Kenneth Choo , Olivier Bleu , Meera M. Parish , Jesper Levinsen

In 1965 Kohn and Luttinger proposed a genuine electronic mechanism for superconductivity. Despite the bare electrostatic interaction between two electrons being repulsive, in a metal electron-hole fluctuations can give rise to Friedel…

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

We have studied properties of quantum charge fluids interacting with random impurities or heavy polarons using a microscopic Hamiltonian with the full many-body Coulomb interaction with the use of variational many-body formalism. At zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mikko Saarela , F V Kusmartsev

Graphene provides a canonical setting for Floquet band engineering, where circularly polarized light can dynamically open topological gaps at Dirac points and generate nonequilibrium Hall responses. Here we show that uniaxial strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yu-Wen Xu , Xiaolin Wan , Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

The Weyl semimetal exhibits various interesting physical phenomena because of the Weyl points, i.e., linear band-crossings. We show by Floquet theory that a linearly polarized light applied to a band insulator can induce controllable Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-19 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Tze Tzen Ong , Naoto Nagaosa

Light-dressed materials hold enormous potential for generating new electronic properties. The band structure resulting from light-dressing can exhibit starkly different quantum and topological phenomena. So far, optical control of charge…

We investigate topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional electron system with cubic Rashba spin-orbit coupling driven by circularly polarized light. Within the Floquet framework, we demonstrate that light-matter interaction induces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-20 Debabrata Sinha

Spin-triplet superconductivity is a key platform for topological quantum computing, yet its experimental realization and control in solid-state materials remain a significant challenge. For this purpose, we propose an ultrafast optical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Zecheng Shen , Chendi Xie , Wei-Chih Chen , Yao Wang