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We show that the gapless boundary signatures - namely, chiral/helical hinge modes or localized zero modes - of three-dimensional higher-order topological insulators and superconductors with inversion symmetry can be gapped without symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-27 Ming-Hao Li , Titus Neupert , S. A. Parameswaran , Apoorv Tiwari

One-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity is a state of matter that is not found in nature. However, it can be realised, for example, by inducing superconductivity into the quantum spin Hall edge state of a two-dimensional…

Recent years saw the complete classification of topological band structures, revealing an abundance of topological crystalline insulators. Here we theoretically demonstrate the existence of topological materials beyond this framework,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Daniel Varjas , Alexander Lau , Kim Pöyhönen , Anton R. Akhmerov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Ion Cosma Fulga

We present a new scheme for Majorana modes in systems with nonsymmporhic-symmetry-protected band degeneracy. We reveal that when the gapless fermionic excitations are encoded with conventional superconductivity and magnetism, which can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhongyi Zhang , Zhenfei Wu , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Shengshan Qin

Higher-order topological phases are gapped phases of matter that host gapless corner or hinge modes. For the case of superconductors, corner or hinge modes are gapless Majorana modes or Majorana zero modes. To construct 3d higher-order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-13 Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura

Topological superconductivity is an exotic state of matter that supports Majorana zero-modes, which are surface modes in 3D, edge modes in 2D or localized end states in 1D. In the case of complete localization these Majorana modes obey…

The concept of topological superconductivity has attracted immense interest in the physics community recently for several reasons: First, topological superconductors represent new phases of matter, topologically distinct from any other…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-07 Fabian O. von Rohr

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

We systematically study topological phases of insulators and superconductors (SCs) in 3D. We find that there exist 3D topologically non-trivial insulators or SCs in 5 out of 10 symmetry classes introduced by Altland and Zirnbauer within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-15 Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu , Akira Furusaki , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Three dimensional topological insulator represents a class of novel quantum phases hosting robust gapless boundary excitations, which is protected by global symmetries such as time reversal, charge conservation and spin rotational symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Yuan-Ming Lu , Dung-Hai Lee

Majorana Fermions, strange particles that are their own antiparticles, were predicted in 1937 and have been sought after ever since. In condensed matter they are predicted to exist as vortex core or edge excitations in certain exotic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-12 Aaron Farrell , T. Pereg-Barnea

Topological superconductors are exotic gapped phases of matter hosting Majorana mid-gap states on their boundary. In conventional topological superconductors, Majorana in-gap states appear in the form of either localized zero-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Junyeong Ahn , Bohm-Jung Yang

We construct time reversal invariant topological superconductors and superfluids in two and three dimensions which are analogous to the recently discovered quantum spin Hall and three-d $Z_2$ topological insulators respectively. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Srinivas Raghu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Based on a recently developed framework, we conduct classifications of time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors with conventional pairing symmetries. Our real-space approach clarifies the nature of boundary modes in nontrivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-03 Seishiro Ono , Ken Shiozaki , Haruki Watanabe

The exploration of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes has become a rapidly developing field. Many types of proposals to realize topological superconductors have been presented, and significant advances have been recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-11 Yupeng Li , Zhu-An Xu

The extension of the topological classification of band insulators to topological semimetals gave way to the topology classes of Dirac, Weyl, and nodal line semimetals with their unique Fermi arc and drum head boundary modes. Similarly,…

A 3D fermionic topological insulator has a gapless Dirac surface state protected by time-reversal symmetry and charge conservation symmetry. The surface state can be gapped by introducing ferromagnetism to break time-reversal symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-24 Parsa Bonderson , Chetan Nayak , Xiao-Liang Qi

We define a class of insulators with gapless surface states protected from localization due to the statistical properties of a disordered ensemble, namely due to the ensemble's invariance under a certain symmetry. We show that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 I. C. Fulga , B. van Heck , J. M. Edge , A. R. Akhmerov

A one dimensional time reversal symmetric topological superconductor (symmetry class DIII) features a single Kramers pair of Majorana bound states at each of its ends. These holographic quasiparticles are non-Abelian anyons that obey…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Jan Carl Budich , Eddy Ardonne

Exceptional points play a pivotal role in the topology of non-Hermitian systems, and significant advances have been made in classifying exceptional points and exploring the associated phenomena. Exceptional surfaces, which are hypersurfaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Hongwei Jia , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Jing Hu , Yixin Xiao , Yifei Zhu , C. T. Chan