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We study three-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric materials such as RhSi, CoSi, and AlPt which host coupled multifold nodes energetically split by the spin-orbit coupling at the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Changhee Lee , Chiho Yoon , Taehyeok Kim , Suk Bum Chung , Hongki Min

Centrosymmetric multiband superconductors which break time-reversal symmetry generically have two-dimensional nodes, i.e., Fermi surfaces of Bogoliubov quasiparticles. We show that the coupling of the electrons to the lattice always leads…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-22 Carsten Timm , P. M. R. Brydon , Daniel F. Agterberg

We demonstrate the existence of topological superconductors (SC) protected by mirror and time reversal (TR) symmetries. D-dimensional (D=1,2,3) crystalline SCs are characterized by 2^(D-1) independent integer topological invariants, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-06 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Topological superconductors have long been predicted to host Majorana zero modes which obey non-Abelian statistics and have potential for realizing non-decoherence topological quantum computation. However, material realization of…

The surfaces of three dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) are generally described as Dirac metals, with a single Dirac cone. It was previously believed that a gapped surface implied breaking of either time reversal $\mathcal T$ or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-28 Xie Chen , Lukasz Fidkowski , Ashvin Vishwanath

The single helical Fermi surface on the surface state of three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3 is constrained by the time-reversal invariant bulk topology to possess a spin-singlet superconducting pairing symmetry. In fact, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 P. Neha , P. K. Biswas , Tanmoy Das , S. Patnaik

Topological insulators, featuring bulk-boundary correspondence, have been realized on a large number of noncrystalline materials, among which amorphous network, quasicrystals and fractal lattices are the most prominent ones. By contrast,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-10 Sourav Manna , Sanjib Kumar Das , Bitan Roy

The hallmark of Weyl semimetals is the existence of open constant-energy contours on their surface -- the so-called Fermi arcs -- connecting Weyl points. Here, we show that for time-reversal symmetric realizations of Weyl semimetals these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Alexander Lau , Klaus Koepernik , Jeroen van den Brink , Carmine Ortix

Higher-order topological superconductivity typically depends on spin-orbit interaction, and often necessitates well designed sample structures, nodal superconducting pairings or complex magnetic order. In this work, we propose a model that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jinpeng Xiao , Qianglin Hu , Zuodong Yu , Weipeng Chen , Xiaobing Luo

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

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 superconducting phases with time-reversal (TR) symmetry have been widely explored in recent years. However the involved unconventional pairings are generally implausible in realistic materials. Here we demonstrate via detailed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-06 Beibing Huang , Pak Hong Chui , Jia Liu , Chuanwei Zhang , Ming Gong

We find that a conventional s-wave superconductor in proximity to three dimensional Dirac material (3DDM), to all orders of perturbation in tunneling, induces a combination of s and p-wave pairing only. We show that the Lorentz invariance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-30 Zahra Faraei , S. A. Jafari

Superconducting states with different internal topology are discussed for the layered high-T_c materials. If the time inversion symmetry is broken, the superconductivity is determined not only by the symmetry of the superconducting state,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 G. E. Volovik

Topological properties and topological superconductivity in real materials have attracted intensive experimental and theoretical attention recently. Based on symmetry analysis and first-principles electronic structure calculations, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-24 Yan Gao , Peng-Jie Guo , Kai Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu

Recently topological superconducting states has attracted a lot of interest. In this work, we consider a topo- logical superconductor with $Z_2$ topological mirror order [1] and s$\pm$-wave superconducting pairing symmetry, within a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-18 Yuan-Yen Tai , Hongchul Choi , Towfiq Ahmed , C. S. Ting , Jian-Xin Zhu

The hope to realize Majorana fermions at the vortex core of a two dimensional topological superconductor has led to a variety of proposals for devices which exhibit topological superconductivity. Many of these include superconductivity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-05 Aaron Farrell , T. Pereg-Barnea

We theoretically study the proximity effect and the inverse proximity effect in a topological insulator/iron-based superconductor heterostructure based on the microscopic model. The superconducting order parameter is self-consistently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-09 Qi-Guang Zhu , Tao Zhou

Within the two-orbital model for BiS$_{2}$-based superconductors, the effect from a single nonmagnetic impurity scattering on the superconducting-state is investigated in terms of the T-matrix approach. By considering three kinds of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-08 Bin Liu , Shiping Feng

In contrast to conventional Weyl semimetals in achiral crystals, chiral topological semimetals in chiral crystals exhibit Weyl nodes at time-reversal-invariant momenta. A Fermi surface spin texture with parallel spin-momentum locking in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Yingyi Huang