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Chiral and helical Majorana edge modes are two archetypal gapless excitations of two-dimensional topological superconductors. They belong to superconductors from two different Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes characterized by $\mathbb{Z}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Haiping Hu , Indubala I. Satija , Erhai Zhao

We present a time-reversal invariant s-wave superconductor supporting Majorana edge modes. The multi-band character of the model together with spin-orbit coupling are key to realizing such a topological superconductor. We characterize the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-30 Shusa Deng , Lorenza Viola , Gerardo Ortiz

After the recognition of the possibility to implement Majorana fermions using the building blocks of solid-state matters, the detection of this peculiar particle has been an intense focus of research. Here we experimentally demonstrate a…

We propose a general recipe for chiral topological superconductor (TSC) in two dimensions with multiple $N$ chiral Majorana fermion modes from a quantied anomalous Hall insulator in proximity to an s-wave superconductor with nontrivial band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Jing Wang , Biao Lian

Chiral Majorana-fermion modes are shown to emerge as edge excitations in a superconductor--topological-insulator hybrid structure that is subject to a magnetic field. The velocity of this mode is tunable by changing the magnetic-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Rakesh P. Tiwari , U. Zülicke , C. Bruder

The surface of superconducting topological insulators (STIs) has been recognized as an effective $p\pm ip$ superconductivity platform for realizing elusive Majorana fermions. Chiral Majorana modes (CMMs), which are different from Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-30 Ching-Kai Chiu , Guang Bian , Hao Zheng , Jiaxin Yin , Songtian S. Zhang , Su-Yang Xu , M. Zahid Hasan

Topological insulator edges and spin-orbit-coupled quantum wires in proximity to s-wave super- conductors can be tuned through a topological quantum phase transition by a Zeeman field. Here we show that a supercurrent flowing in the s-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alessandro Romito , Jason Alicea , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

We show how a chiral Dirac fermion (a massless electron or hole) can be converted into a pair of neutral chiral Majorana fermions (a particle equal to its own antiparticle). These two types of fermions exist on the metallic surface of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-28 A. R. Akhmerov , Johan Nilsson , C. W. J. Beenakker

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 to realize second-order topological superconductivity in bilayer spin-polarized Fermi gas superfluids. We focus on systems with intralayer chiral $p$-wave pairing and with tunable interlayer hopping and interlayer interactions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-06 Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan , Wen Huang

The chiral Majorana fermion is an exotic particle that is its own antiparticle. It can arise in a one-dimensional edge of topological materials, and especially that in a topological superconductor can be exploited in non-Abelian quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-18 Motoaki Hirayama , Takuya Nomoto , Ryotaro Arita

It is known that the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) supports a chiral Majorana edge mode at the interface between a superconductor and a magnetic insulator. The complexity of the materials combination is such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 C. W. J. Beenakker

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Jing Wang

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 fermion excitations, have been the subject of intense studies due to their novel transport properties and their potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computations. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-24 James Jun He , Jiansheng Wu , Ting-Pong Choy , Xiong-Jun Liu , Y. Tanaka , K. T. Law

We study the proximity effect between an s-wave superconductor and the surface states of a strong topological insulator. The resulting two dimensional state resembles a spinless p_x+ip_y superconductor, but does not break time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Majorana fermions exist on the boundaries of two-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) as charge-neutral quasi-particles. The neutrality makes the detection of such states challenging from both experimental and theoretical points…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-30 James Jun He , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

To realize Majorana fermions having novel physical features has been developed as a key while difficult task in topological superconductor. Here we have proposed another platform to generate Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which is constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

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
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