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Second order topological insulator can be engineered from two-dimensional materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and in-plane Zeeman field. In proximity to superconductor, topological superconducting phase could be induced in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Ma Luo

We study theoretically charge transport properties of normal metal (N) / ferromagnet insulator (FI) / superconductor (S) junction and S/FI/S junction formed on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), where chiral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Naoto Nagaosa

We study signatures of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) bound to Josephson vortices in superconductor-three-dimensional topological insulator-superconductor (S-TI-S) Josephson junctions placed in a perpendicular magnetic field. First, using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Katharina Laubscher , Jay D. Sau

The chiral topological superconductor in two dimensions has a full pairing gap in the bulk and a single chiral Majorana state at the edge. The vortex of the chiral superconducting state carries a Majorana zero mode which is responsible for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

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

We investigate the sub gap properties of a three terminal Josephson T-junction composed of topologically superconducting wires connected by a normal metal region. This system naturally hosts zero energy Andreev bound states which are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Christian Spånslätt , Eddy Ardonne

Topological superconductivity holds promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. While planar Josephson junctions are attractive candidates to realize this exotic state, direct phase-measurements as the fingerprint of the topological…

Recent experimental breakthrough in magnetic Weyl semimetals have inspired exploration on the novel effects of various magnetic structures in these materials. Here we focus on a domain wall structure which connects two uniform domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-07 Zhao Huang , Christopher Lane , Dmitry Yarotski , A. J. Taylor , Jian-Xin Zhu

We propose a theoretical model to investigate the interplay between altermagnetism and $p$-wave superconductivity, with a particular focus on topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional (2D) $p$-wave superconductor, considering both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Pritam Chatterjee , Vladimir Juričić

We consider a Josephson bijunction consisting of a thin $SIS$ $\pi$-Josephson junction sandwiched between two-dimensional semiconducting layers with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Each of these layers forms an $SNS$ junction due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Yanick Volpez , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

Topological superconductors which support Majorana fermions are thought to be realized in one-dimensional semiconducting wires coupled to a superconductor. Such excitations are expected to exhibit non-Abelian statistics and can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Leonid P. Rokhinson , Xinyu Liu , Jacek K. Furdyna

We propose to realize a one-dimensional chiral topological superconducting state at the magnetic domain walls stripe of a magnetic topological insulator coupled with a conventional $s$-wave superconductor. The localized Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jing Wang

We propose and analyze theoretically an experimental setup for detecting the elusive Majorana particle in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. The experimental system consists of one-dimensional semiconductor wire with strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-16 Roman M. Lutchyn , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

Majorana Fermions, strange particles that are their own antiparticles, were predicted in 1937 and have been sought after ever since. In condensed matter they are predicted to exist as vortex core or edge excitations in certain exotic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-12 Aaron Farrell , T. Pereg-Barnea

The interplay between superconductivity, magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling can lead to the realization of non--trivial topological phases. Recent experiments have found signatures of such phases in magnetic nanoflakes formed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Andrzej Ptok , David J. Alspaugh , Szczepan Głodzik , Aksel Kobiałka , Andrzej M. Oleś , Pascal Simon , Przemysław Piekarz

We consider a two-dimensional monolayer MoS2-based Josephson junction which is composed by an intermediate semiconductor flake and the semi-infinite topological and non-topological superconductor leads and study its quantum transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Hamidreza Simchi

Intrinsic Rashba spin-orbital coupling (SOC) can exist in centrosymmetric materials with local inversion symmetry breaking. Here we show that such a SOC can induce topological superconductivity together with an in-plane Zeeman field in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-05 Jiong Mei , Kun Jiang , Shengshan Qin , Jiangping Hu

A lateral Josephson junction in which the surface of a 3D topological insulator serves as the weak link should support topologically protected excitations related to Majorana fermions. The resulting $4\pi$-periodic current-phase…

We propose to realize Majorana fermions (MFs) on an edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the proximity with s-wave superconductors and in the presence of transverse exchange field h. It is shown that there appear a pair of MFs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-06 L. B. Shao , Z. D. Wang , R. Shen , L. Sheng , B. G. Wang , D. Y. Xing