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The 1D Kitaev model in the topological phase, with open boundary conditions, hosts strong Majorana zero modes. These are fermion parity-odd operators that almost commute with the Hamiltonian and manifest in long coherence times for edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Loredana M. Vasiloiu , Apoorv Tiwari , Jens H. Bardarson

We propose a general framework for designing a two-dimensional (2D) topological superconductor (TSC) using a magnet-superconductor hybrid system. This setup involves a monolayer of CrInTe$_3$, which hosts noncoplanar magnetic textures, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-12 Arnob Mukherjee , Fengyi Zhou , Soheil Ershadrad , Tanay Nag , Duo Wang , Biplab Sanyal

The period-doubling oscillation emerges with the coexistence between zero and {\pi} modes in Floquet topological insulator. Here, utilized the flexibility of the circuit, we construct the Floquet circuit with frequency-synthetic dimension…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Bo Lv , Shiyun Xia , Ye Tian , Ting Liu , Hongyang Mu , Zhichao Shen , Sijie Wang , Zheng Zhu , Huibin Tao , Fanyi Meng , Jinhui Shi

We study the manipulation of Majorana zero modes in a thin disk made from a $p$-wave superconductor in order to understand their use as a building block for topological quantum computers. We analyze the second-order topological corner modes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Liu Yang , Alessandro Principi , Niels R. Walet

Periodic driving enables realization of topological phases without static counterparts. We experimentally realize and detect a one-dimensional anomalous Floquet topological phase in an optical lattice, using multi-frequency control to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-08 Pengju Zhao , Yudong Wei , Zhongshu Hu , Shengjie Jin , Xuzong Chen , Xiong-jun Liu

We study Josephson junctions based on second-order topological superconductors (SOTSs) which can be realized in quantum spin Hall insulators with large inverted gap in proximity to unconventional superconductors. We find that tuning the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-22 Song-Bo Zhang , Björn Trauzettel

A topological insulator is regarded as an ideal candidate for information storage and high-speed lossless electrical transmission devices due to robust topological protected boundary modes. Previous studies revealed that symmetry exerts an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

One of the most fascinating properties of topological phases of matter is their robustness to disorder and imperfections. Although several experimental techniques have been developed to probe the geometric properties of engineered…

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit two distinct topological classifications based on their gap structure: line-gap and point-gap topologies. Although point-gap topology is intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems, its systematic construction remains a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Xiang Ji , Hao Geng , Naeem Akhtar , Xiaosen Yang

We analyze the superconducting instabilities in the vicinity of the quantum-critical point of an inversion symmetry breaking order. We first show that the fluctuations of the inversion symmetry breaking order lead to two degenerate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-29 Yuxuan Wang , Gil Young Cho , Taylor L. Hughes , Eduardo Fradkin

Recently, anomalous Floquet topological phases without static counterparts have been observed in different systems, where periodically driven models are realized to support a winding number of 1 and a pair of edge modes in each quasienergy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 Kaiye Shi , Xiang Zhang , Wei Zhang

Planar topological superconductors with power-law-decaying pairing display different kinds of topological phase transitions where quasiparticles dubbed nonlocal-massive Dirac fermions emerge. These exotic particles form through long-range…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 T. O. Puel , O. Viyuela

We show how Majorana end modes can be generated in a one-dimensional system by varying some of the parameters in the Hamiltonian periodically in time. The specific model we consider is a chain containing spinless electrons with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Manisha Thakurathi , Aavishkar A. Patel , Diptiman Sen , Amit Dutta

The band topology of a superconductor is known to have profound impact on the existence of Majorana zero modes in vortices. As iron-based superconductors with band inversion and $s_{\pm}$-wave pairing can give rise to time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 Majid Kheirkhah , Zhongbo Yan , Frank Marsiglio

Hosting unique drumhead surface states enclosed by nodal lines, topological nodal-line semimetals exhibit novel transport phenomena. Thus, the exploration of topological semimetals with different nodal-line structures has attracted much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Ming-Jian Gao , Hong Wu , Jun-Hong An

Three-dimensional 3rd-order topological insulators (TOTIs) and superconductors (TOTSCs), as the highestorder topological phases hosting zero corner modes in physical dimension, has sparked extensive research interest. However, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Zhi-Hao Huang , Yi Tan , Wei Jia , Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Floquet engineering is one of the most vigorous fields in periodically driven (Floquet) systems, with which we can control phases of matter usually by high-frequency drives. In this paper, with Floquet engineering by a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Kaoru Mizuta , Kazuaki Takasan , Norio Kawakami

We theoretically study the lattice distortion induced first and second order topological phase transition in rectangular FeSe$_{x}$Te$_{1-x}$ monolayer. When compressing the lattice constant in one direction, our first principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Li Chen , Bin Liu , Gang Xu , Xin Liu

Higher-order topological phases are characterized by protected states localized at the corners or hinges of the system. By applying time-periodic quenches to a two-dimensional lattice with balanced gain and loss, we obtain a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jiaxin Pan , Longwen Zhou

One-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity is a state of matter that is not found in nature. However, it can be realised, for example, by inducing superconductivity into the quantum spin Hall edge state of a two-dimensional…