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Time reversal symmetric topological superconductors in three spatial dimensions carry gapless surface Majorana fermions. They are robust against any time reversal symmetric single-body perturbation weaker than the bulk energy gap. We mimic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Sharmistha Sahoo , Zhao Zhang , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

We study one-dimensional topological superconductivity in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. This phase is characterized by having a bulk gap, while supporting a Kramers' pair of zero-energy Majorana bound states at each of its ends.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Arbel Haim , Konrad Wölms , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg , Karsten Flensberg

Odd-frequency Cooper pairs are gathering attention for the convenience of investigating the edge state of topological superconductors including Majorana fermions. Although a spinless p-wave superconductor has only one Majorana fermion in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-08 Daijiro Takagi , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Yukio Tanaka , Mario Cuoco

We investigate hybrid structures based on a bilayer quantum spin Hall system in proximity to an s-wave superconductor as a platform to mimic time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors. In this bilayer setup, the induced pairing can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 F. Schulz , J. C. Budich , E. G. Novik , P. Recher , B. Trauzettel

Electrons in a multielectron bubble in helium form a spherical, two-dimensional system coupled to the ripplons at the bubble surface. The electron-ripplon coupling, known to lead to polaronic effects, is shown to give rise also to Cooper…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Tempere , V. N. Gladilin , I. F. Silvera , J. T. Devreese

Generation and detection of spinful Cooper pairs in conventional superconductors has been intensely pursued by designing increasingly complex magnet-superconductor hybrids. Here, we demonstrate theoretically that magnons with nonzero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-11 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , Akashdeep Kamra , Wolfgang Belzig

We propose a tune-free scheme to realize Kramers pairs of Majorana bound states in recently discovered higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). We show that, by bringing two hinges of a HOTI into the proximity of an $s$-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

A time-reversal (TR) invariant topological superconductor is characterized by a Kramers pair of Majorana zero-energy modes on boundaries and in a core of a TR invariant vortex. A vortex defect that preserves TR symmetry has remained…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-06 Fengcheng Wu , Ivar Martin

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba coupling and in proximity of a superconductor hosts Majorana edge modes. An array of such nanowires with inter-wire coupling gives an approximate description of a two-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Deepti Rana , Goutam Sheet

Multi-component electronic systems can appear in solid state systems with active orbital band structures. They exhibit richer structures of topological superconductivity beyond the conventional scenarios of spin singlet and triplet pairings…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-08 Wang Yang , Tao Xiang , Congjun Wu

Coupling Majorana fermion excitations to coherent external fields is an important stage towards their manipulation and detection. We analyse the charge and transmon regimes of a topological nano-wire embedded within a Cooper-Pair-Box, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Eran Ginossar , Eytan Grosfeld

We study a time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor island hosting spatially separated Majorana Kramers pairs, with weak tunnel couplings to two s-wave superconducting leads. When the topological superconductor island is in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

We analyze symmetries and magnetic properties of Cooper pairs appearing as subdominant pairing correlations in inhomogeneous superconductors, on the basis of the quasiclassical Green-function theory. The frequency symmetry, parity, and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-05 Yasuhiro Asano , Yakov V. Fominov , Yukio Tanaka

We consider a system consisting of two tunnel-coupled two-dimensional topological insulators proximitized by a top and bottom superconductor with a phase difference of $\pi$ between them. We show that this system exhibits a time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Katharina Laubscher , Danial Chughtai , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

A topological superconductor is characterized by having a pairing gap in the bulk and gapless self-hermitian Majorana modes at its boundary. In one dimension, these are zero-energy modes bound to the ends, while in two dimensions these are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Arbel Haim , Yuval Oreg

Higher order topological superconductors hosting Majorana-Kramers pairs (MKPs) as corner modes have recently been proposed in a two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) proximity-coupled to unconventional cuprate or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Chuanchang Zeng , T. D. Stanescu , Chuanwei Zhang , V. W. Scarola , Sumanta Tewari

Substantial experimental investigation has provided evidence for spin-triplet pairing in diverse classes of materials and in a variety of artificial heterostructures. A fundamental challenge in actual experiments is how to manipulate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-14 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Panagiotis Kotetes

Like electrons, Cooper pairs can carry a monopole charge if the pairing electrons come from two or more Fermi surfaces with different Chern numbers. In such an instance, a superconductor is necessarily nodal due to an inherent topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-02 Penghao Zhu , Rui-Xing Zhang

Through a systematic symmetry and topology analysis we establish that three-dimensional chiral superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling and odd-parity pairing generically host low-energy nodal quasiparticles that are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-07 Vladyslav Kozii , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu

The parity breaking gives rise to rich superconducting properties through the admixture of even and odd-parity Cooper pairs. A new light has been shed on parity-breaking superconductors by recent observations of nonreciprocal responses such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-06 Hikaru Watanabe , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase