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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

We show that the non-Abelian Berry phase emerges naturally in the s-wave and spin quintet pairing channel of spin-3/2 fermions. The topological structure of this pairing condensate is characterized by the second Chern number. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Chyh-Hong Chern , Han-Dong Chen , Congjun Wu , Jiang-Ping Hu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Motivated by heavy ion collision experiments, we study the hydrodynamic properties of non-Abelian systems. These issues arise in condensed matter physics in the context of transport of spins in the presence of spin orbit coupling: the Pauli…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 B. W. A. Leurs , Z. Nazario , D. I. Santiago , J. Zaanen

Systems in which exchange interactions couple carrier spins to a spin texture with a net chirality exhibit a spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect, where the geometric gauge field and pseudo-magnetic field have opposite signs for carriers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-31 Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov , Patrick A. Lee

Recent advances in electron spin resonance techniques have allowed the manipulation of the spin of individual atoms, making magnetic atomic chains on superconducting hosts one of the most promising platform where topological…

We investigate a minimal model of a two-terminal Josephson junction with conventional superconducting (SC) leads and a pair of interconnected quantum dots in the presence of two Aharonov-Casher (AC) fluxes. The Andreev bound state spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Luka Medic , Anton Ramšak , Tomaž Rejec

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

Motivated by Sr2RuO4 the magnetic properties of edge states in a two-band spin-triplet superconductor with electron- and hole-like Fermi surfaces are investigated assuming chiral p-wave pairing symmetry. The two bands correspond to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-01 Yoshiki Imai , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Manfred Sigrist

We propose the $2\pi$-periodic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect as a nonlocal probe of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) without the restriction of fermion parity. We demonstrate the enhancement of the AB effect, where the topological protection of MZMs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Masayuki Sugeta , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto

We consider a 1D topological superconductor (TSC) constructed by coupling a pair of Kitaev's Majorana chains with opposite spin configurations. Such a 1D lattice model is known to be protected by a $T^2 = -1$ time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Alestin Mawrie

Non-Abelian quasiparticles have been predicted to exist in a variety of condensed matter systems. Their defining property is that an adiabatic braid between two of them results in a nontrivial change of the quantum state of the system. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Jian Li , Titus Neupert , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

The scalar spin chirality (SSC), whose nonzero value $\langle {\bf S}_i \cdot ({\bf S}_j \times {\bf S}_k) \rangle \neq 0$ implies the breaking of time-reversal and certain point-group symmetries in the ground state, is a key quantity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-13 Daesik Kim , Hyojae Jeon , Seongjun Park , Seungho Lee , Jung Hoon Han , Hyun-Yong Lee

We study $S=1$ spin liquid states on the kagome lattice constructed by Gutzwiller-projected $p_x+ip_y$ superconductors. We show that the obtained spin liquids are either non-Abelian or Abelian topological phases, depending on the topology…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-01 Zheng-Xin Liu , Hong-Hao Tu , Ying-Hai Wu , Rong-Qiang He , Xiong-Jun Liu , Yi Zhou , Tai-Kai Ng

In this study, Rashba coupling induced Aharonov-Casher effect in a graphene based nano ring is investigated theoretically. The graphene based nano ring is considered as a central device connected to semi-infinite graphene nano ribbons. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 A. Ghaderzadeh , S. H. Ebrahimnazhad Rahbari , A. Phirouznia

We show that nonequilibrium spin injection into a superconductor can generate an anomalous supercurrent or induce a phase gradient, even for spin voltages below the superconducting gap. Our mechanism does not require breaking time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-30 I. V. Tokatly , Y. Lu , F. S. Bergeret

Motivated by the experimental realization of synthetic spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atoms, we investigate the phase diagram of the Bose Hubbard model in a non-abelian gauge field in two dimensions. Using a strong coupling expansion in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-09 William S. Cole , Shizhong Zhang , Arun Paramekanti , Nandini Trivedi

For an electrically driven electron confined in a nanowire quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we find a SOC-magnetism phase-locked condition under which we derive a complete set of Schr\"odinger kitten states which contains some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Kuo Hai , Qiong Chen , Wenhua Hai

Noncentrosymmetric superconductor PbTaSe$_2$, hosting bulk nodal-line fermions (Phys. Rev. B. 89, 020505) and spin-helical surface states (Nature Communication 7, 10556), represents a prime candidate for realizing topological…

The interplay of superconductivity with a non-trivial spin texture holds promises for the engineering of non-abelian Majorana quasi-particles. A wide class of systems expected to exhibit exotic correlations are based on nanoscale conductors…

In all known fermionic superfluids, Cooper pairs are composed of spin-1/2 quasi-particles that pair to form either spin-singlet or spin-triplet bound states. The "spin" of a Bloch electron, however, is fixed by the symmetries of the crystal…