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We propose a mechanism of the spin Seebeck effect attributed to excitonic condensation in a nonmagnetic insulator. We analyze a half-filled two-orbital Hubbard model with a crystalline field splitting in the strong coupling limit. In this…

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We propose a way to generate a one-dimensional topological superconductor from a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide coupled to a Bernal-stacked bilayer of graphene under a displacement field. With proper gating, this structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel Skliannyi , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern

In this work the bound state and scattering problems for a spin-1/2 particle undergone to an Aharonov-Bohm potential in a conical space in the nonrelativistic limit are considered. The presence of a \delta-function singularity, which comes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 F. M. Andrade , E. O. Silva , M. Pereira

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) partially covered by an s-wave superconductor, where the uncovered region remains normal but is exposed to an effective Zeeman field applied perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Olesia Dmytruk , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

By the spin-fermion formula, the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice is represented by a U(2) gauge theory in the mean field method, non-Abelian vortex solutions are constructed based on this theory. The quantization condition shows that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Qiu-Hong Huo , Yunguo Jiang , Ru-Zhi Wang , Hui Yan

Zero-bias charge conductance peak (ZBCCP) is a significant symbol of Majorana zero modes (MZMs). The proximity effect of s-wave superconductor is usually demanded in the fabrication of MZMs. So in transport experiments, the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ near two-degree twists has emerged as a platform for exotic correlated topological phases, including ferromagnetism and a non-Abelian fractional spin Hall insulator. Here we reveal the unexpected emergence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Cheong-Eung Ahn , Donghae Seo , Gyeoul Lee , Youngwook Kim , Gil Young Cho

Recently, topological superconductors have emerged as a pivotal frontier in condensed matter physics, owing to the exotic properties of Majorana quasiparticles residing on edges, surfaces, and vortex cores. In this work, we investigate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Huan-Wen Lai , Meng-Chien Wang , Ching-Ray Chang , Seng-Ghee Tan

Superconductivity (SC) is a ubiquitous feature of graphite allotropes, having been observed in Bernal bilayers[1], rhombohedral trilayers[2], and a wide variety of angle-misaligned multilayers[3-6]. Despite significant differences in the…

We show that introducing spin-singlet or spin-triplet superconductivity into twisted bilayer graphene induces higher-order topological superconductivity. $C_{2z}T$-protected corner states of Majorana Kramers pairs appear at the boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-13 Aaron Chew , Yijie Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Zhi-Da Song

The nonlocal and topological nature of the molecular Aharonov-Bohm (MAB) effect is examined for real electronic Hamiltonians. A notion of preferred gauge for MAB is suggested. The MAB effect in the linear + quadratic $E\otimes \epsilon$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Erik Sjöqvist

Topological stability is an important property for topological materials. However, the non-Hermitian effects may change this situation. Here, we investigate the robustness of edge states in the non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with imbalanced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-08 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou , Lin-Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

We propose to realize Majorana edge and corner states in electric circuits. First, we simulate the Kitaev model by an LC electric circuit and the $p_{x}+ip_{y}$ model by an LC circuit together with operational amplifiers. Zero-energy edge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 Motohiko Ezawa

We analyze a Josephson junction between two superconductors interconnected through a normal-state nanostructure made of two parallel nanowires with embedded quantum dots. We study the influence of interference effects due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Damian Tomaszewski , Piotr Busz , Rosa Lopez , Rok Zitko , Minchul Lee , Jan Martinek

A topological superfluid phase characterized by an emergent chiral-p-wave pair potential is expected to form in a two-dimensional Fermi superfluid subject to s-wave pairing, spin-orbit coupling and a large-enough Zeeman splitting. Andreev…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-17 Kadin Thompson , Joachim Brand , Ulrich Zülicke

It is well known that non-Abelian Majorana zero modes (MZM) harbor at vortex cores in a $p_{x}+\text{i}p_{y}$ topological superconductor, which can be realized in a 2D spin-orbit coupled system with a single Fermi surface and by proximity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-31 Cheung Chan , Lin Zhang , Ting Fung Jeffrey Poon , Ying-Ping He , Yan-Qi Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Topologically nontrivial Haldane phase is theoretically proposed to be realized in the 1/3-magnetization ($M$) plateau of spin-1/2 trimer systems. However, the spin excitation gap, typical characteristic of Haldane phase, is not yet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-08 Y. Y. Han , B. C. Yu , Z. Du , L. S. Ling , L. Zhang , W. Tong , C. Y. Xi , J. L. Zhang , T. Shang , Li Pi , Long Ma

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is central to band topology in condensed matter physics, which allows us to understand and design distinct topological states. In this work, we find another mechanism to analogize the SSH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Yuanjun Jin , XingYu Yue , Yong Xu , Xiang-Long Yu , Guoqing Chang

We prove an index theorem for the existence of Majorana zero modes in a semiconducting thin film with a sizable spin-orbit coupling when it is adjacent to an s-wave superconductor. The theorem, which is analogous to the Jackiw-Rebbi index…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-21 Sumanta Tewari , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We point out that the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in two dimensions can be regarded as a Yang-Mills non-Abelian gauge field. The physical field generated by the gauge field gives the electron wave function a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naomichi Hatano , Ryoen Shirasaki , Hiroaki Nakamura