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Floquet engineering of topological phase transitions driven by a high-frequency time-periodic field is a promising approach to realizing new topological phases of matter distinct from static states. Here, we theoretically investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Kok Wai Lee , Mateo Jalen Andrew Calderon , Xiang-Long Yu , Ching Hua Lee , Yee Sin Ang , Pei-Hao Fu

Higher-order topological materials with topologically protected states at the boundaries of their boundaries (hinges or corners) have attracted attention in recent years. In this paper, we utilize time-periodic driving to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Raditya Weda Bomantara

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity provides a fertile ground for engineering exotic topological phases, while dynamical control via periodic driving offers a unique avenue to access quantum states that are inaccessible in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-03 Xiaolin Wan , Zheng Qin , Fangyang Zhan , Junjie Zeng , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

We theoretically consider the effect of a spatially periodic modulation of the superconducting order parameter on the formation of Majorana fermions induced by a one-dimensional system with magnetic impurities brought into close proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

There have recently been several experiments studying induced superconductivity in semiconducting two-dimensional electron gases that are strongly coupled to thin superconducting layers, as well as probing possible topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Christopher Reeg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We consider the fate of a helical edge state of a spin Hall insulator and its topological transition in presence of a circularly polarized light when coupled to various forms of environments. A Lindblad type equation is developed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Szabolcs Vajna , Baruch Horovitz , Balázs Dóra , Gergely Zaránd

In this paper, we propose a way to realize topological $s$-wave superconductivity with application of circularly polarized laser light in two-dimensional bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Using Floquet theory, we analyze a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Hiroomi Chono , Kazuaki Takasan , Youichi Yanase

Chiral Majorana one-dimensional modes have been proposed as they key component for topological quantum computing. In this study, we explore their potential realization as hinge modes in higher-order topological superconductors. To create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Ilyoun Na , James G. McHugh , Sinéad M. Griffin , Luca Chirolli

We consider a system of dynamically-modulated photonic resonator lattice undergoing photonic transition, and show that in the ultra-strong coupling regime such a lattice can exhibit non-trivial topological properties, including…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-17 Luqi Yuan , Shanhui Fan

A photonic Floquet topological insulator has previously been experimentally realized in an array of evanescently-coupled helical waveguides. In the topological regime probed by that experiment, the chirality of the single topological edge…

We propose a theoretical model to investigate the interplay between altermagnetism and $p$-wave superconductivity, with a particular focus on topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional (2D) $p$-wave superconductor, considering both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Pritam Chatterjee , Vladimir Juričić

A first-order-like resistivity hysteresis is induced by a subtle structural transition under hydrostatic pressure in the topological nodal-line superconductor PbTaSe$_2$. This structure transition is quickly suppressed to zero at pressure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-06 C. Q. Xu , R. Sankar , W. Zhou , Bin Li , Z. D. Han , B. Qian , J. H. Dai , Hengbo Cui , A. F. Bangura , F. C. Chou , Xiaofeng Xu

We show that a magnetic field parallel to the plane of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin orbit coupling in proximity to a superconductor leads to a topological phase in coexistence with a single pair of Bogoliubov Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Gabriel F. Rodríguez Ruiz , Juan Herrera Mateos , Leandro Tosi , Christoph Strunk , Carlos Balseiro , Liliana Arrachea

There have been numerous studies on topological superconductivity in magnetic atomic chains deposited on s-wave superconductors. Most of these investigations have focused on spin-orbit interactions or helical spin orders. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Jinpeng Xiao , Qianglin Hu , Xiaobing Luo

Time-reversal breaking topological superconductors are new states of matter which can support Majorana zero modes at the edge. In this paper, we propose a new realization of one-dimensional topological superconductivity and Majorana zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Gang Xu , Jing Wang , Binghai Yan , Xiao-Liang Qi

Using ab initio tight-binding approaches, we investigate Floquet band engineering of the 1T' phase of transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2, M = W, Mo and X = Te, Se, S) monolayers under the irradiation with circularly polarized light. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-13 Xiangru Kong , Wei Luo , Linyang Li , Mina Yoon , Tom Berlijn , Liangbo Liang

The combination of spin-orbit coupling with interactions results in many exotic phases of matter. In this Letter, we investigate the superconducting pairing instability of the two-dimensional extended Hubbard model with both Rashba and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-08 Majid Kheirkhah , Zhongbo Yan , Yuki Nagai , Frank Marsiglio

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

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

Under a strong transport current, the induced voltage in superconductor nanomembranes in a magnetic field with submicron inhomogeneity shows a pulse on a certain interval of the magnetic field. It is a manifestation of a wide phase-slip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-03 R. O. Rezaev , E. I. Smirnova , O. G. Schmidt , V. M. Fomin