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The interplay between topology and magnetism often triggers the exotic quantum phases. Here, we report an accessible scheme to engineer the robust $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topology by intrinsic magnetism, originating from the zigzag segment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Wei-Jian Li , Da-Fei Sun , Sheng Ju , Ai-Lei He , Yuan Zhou

We investigate the topological aspect of the spin-triplet $f$-wave superconductor UPt$_3$ through microscopic calculations of edge- and vortex-bound states based on the quasiclassical Eilenberger and Bogoliubov-de Gennes theories. It is…

Topological superconductors are appealing building blocks for robust and reliable quantum information processing. Most platforms for engineering topological superconductivity rely on a combination of superconductors, materials with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ignacio Sardinero , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

We investigate the role of the coupling between a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanowire and a conventional $s$-wave superconductor on the emergence of the topological superconducting phase with Majorana bound states in an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral $p$-wave pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Max Geier , Margarita Davydova , Liang Fu

A great variety of novel phenomena occur when two-dimensional materials, such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides, are assembled into bilayers with a twist between individual layers. As a new application of this paradigm, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-08 Oguzhan Can , Tarun Tummuru , Ryan P. Day , Ilya Elfimov , Andrea Damascelli , Marcel Franz

The stacking and bending of graphene are trivial but extremely powerful agents of control over graphene's manifold physics. By changing the twist angle, one can drive the system over a plethora of exotic states via strong electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Jana Vejpravova , Barbara Pacakova , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Jing Kong , Martin Kalbac

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

A clear demonstration of topological superconductivity (TS) and Majorana zero modes remains one of the major pending goal in the field of topological materials. One common strategy to generate TS is through the coupling of an s-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 P. San-Jose , J. L. Lado , R. Aguado , F. Guinea , J. Fernández-Rossier

A common path to superconducting spintronics, Majorana fermions, and topologically-protected quantum computing relies on spin-triplet superconductivity. While naturally occurring spin-triplet pairing is elusive and even common spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-05 Thomas Vezin , Chenghao Shen , Jong E. Han , Igor Žutić

The group of moir\'e graphene superconductors keeps growing, and by now it contains twisted graphene multilayers and twisted double bilayers. We analyze the contribution of long range charge fluctuations in the superconductivity of twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Min Long , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

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

Quantum spin Hall-superconductor hybrids are promising sources of topological superconductivity and Majorana modes, particularly given recent progress on HgTe and InAs/GaSb. We propose a new method of revealing topological superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-11 Shu-Ping Lee , Karen Michaeli , Jason Alicea , Amir Yacoby

We theoretically explore possible unconventional superconductivity induced by weak repulsive interactions in twisted bilayer TMD (e.g. WSe$_2$) in the presence of an out-of-plane electric field. Using renormalization group (RG) analysis, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-17 Yi-Ming Wu , Zhengzhi Wu , Hong Yao

Superconductivity often occurs close to broken-symmetry parent states and is especially common in doped magnetic insulators. When twisted close to a magic relative orientation angle near 1 degree, bilayer graphene has flat moire…

We present a simple model that we believe captures the key aspects of the competition between superconducting and insulating states in twisted bilayer graphene. Within this model, the superconducting phase is primary, and arises at generic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-16 Yang-Zhi Chou , Yu-Ping Lin , Sankar Das Sarma , Rahul M. Nandkishore

Topological superconductivity is the quantum condensate of paired electrons with an odd parity of the pairing function. One of the candidates is the triplet pairing superconductor derived from topological insulator Bi2Se3 by chemical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-11 Guan Du , Yufeng Li , J. Schneeloch , R. D. Zhong , Genda Gu , Huan Yang , Hai-Hu Wen

Experimental demonstrations of tunable correlation effects in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have put two-dimensional moir\'e quantum materials at the forefront of condensed-matter research. Other twisted few-layer graphitic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-27 Michael M. Scherer , Dante M. Kennes , Laura Classen

We theoretically demonstrate a spontaneous spin superconductor (SC) state in ABCA-stacked tetralayer graphene, under sequential effects of electron-electron (e-e) and electron-hole (e-h) interactions. First of all, we examine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Shuai Li , Yuan-Hang Ren , Ao-Long Li , Hua Jiang

Recent experiments on Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) deposited on monolayer WSe$_2$ revealed robust, ultra-clean superconductivity coexisting with sizable induced spin-orbit coupling. Here we propose BLG/WSe$_2$ as a platform to engineer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Ying-Ming Xie , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Andrea F. Young , Stevan Nadj-Perge , Jason Alicea