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We demonstrate that the one-dimensional helical Majorana edges of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors (class DIII) can become gapless and insulating by a combination of random edge velocity and interaction.…

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We study superconductors with $n$-fold rotational invariance both in the presence and in the absence of spin-orbit interactions. More specifically, we classify the non-interacting Hamiltonians by defining a series of $Z$-numbers for the…

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Topological superconductors (TSCs) are correlated quantum states with simultaneous off-diagonal long-range order and nontrivial topological invariants. They produce gapless or zero energy boundary excitations, including Majorana zero modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-05 Yi Zhang , Kun Jiang , Fuchun Zhang , Jian Wang , Ziqiang Wang

We show that compositions of time-reversal and spatial symmetries, also known as the magnetic-space-group symmetries, protect topological invariants as well as surface states that are distinct from those of all preceding topological states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Bingrui Peng , Yi Jiang , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Chen Fang

We develop a unified framework to classify topological defects in insulators and superconductors described by spatially modulated Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes Hamiltonians. We consider Hamiltonians H(k,r) that vary slowly with adiabatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane

Higher order topological insulators are a new class of topological insulators in dimensions $\rm d>1$. These higher-order topological insulators possess $\rm (d - 1)$-dimensional boundaries that, unlike those of conventional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

We examine different topological phases in three-dimensional non-centrosymmetric superconductors with time-reversal symmetry by using three different types of topological invariants. Due to the bulk boundary correspondence, a non-zero value…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 Andreas P. Schnyder , Shinsei Ryu

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

We find a new class of topological superconductors which possess an emergent time-reversal symmetry that is present only after projecting to an effective low-dimensional model. We show that a topological phase in symmetry class DIII can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Christopher Reeg , Constantin Schrade , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors have topologically nontrivial properties manifested by protected zero-energy surface states. Specifically, it was recently found that zero-energy surface flat bands of topological origin appear at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-13 Andreas P. Schnyder , P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm

Topological insulators are characterized by insulating bulk and conducting surface, the latter is a necessity consequence of the nontrivial topology of the wavefunctions forming the valence band. This chapter gives a historical overview of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Yoichi Ando

Topological superconductors (TSCs), with the capability to host Majorana bound states that can lead to non-Abelian statistics and application in quantum computation, have been one of the most intensively studied topics in condensed matter…

Just like insulators can host topological Dirac states at their edges, superconductors can also exhibit topological phases characterized by Majorana edge states. Remarkable zero-energy states have been recently observed at the two ends of…

Time reversal symmetric topological superconductors in three spatial dimensions carry gapless surface Majorana fermions. They are robust against any time reversal symmetric single-body perturbation weaker than the bulk energy gap. We mimic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Sharmistha Sahoo , Zhao Zhang , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

A well-established way to find novel Majorana particles in a solid-state system is to have superconductivity arising from the topological electronic structure. To this end, the heterostructure systems that consist of normal superconductor…

Topological crystalline phases (TCPs) are topological states protected by spatial symmetries. A broad range of TCPs have been conventionally studied by formulating topological invariants (symmetry indicators) at invariant momenta in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-01 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Taylor L. Hughes

We consider three dimensional superconductors in class DIII with a four-fold rotation axis and inversion symmetry. It is shown that such systems can exhibit higher order topology with helical Majorana hinge modes. In the case of even-parity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-11 Nick Bultinck , B. Andrei Bernevig , Michael P. Zaletel

The three-dimensional topological insulator (originally called "topological insulators") is the first example in nature of a topologically ordered electronic phase existing in three dimensions that cannot be reduced to multiple copies of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 M. Zahid Hasan , David Hsieh , Yuqi Xia , L. Andrew Wray , Su-Yang Xu , Charles L. Kane

In this letter, we investigate topological phases of full-gapped odd-parity superconductors, which are distinguished by the bulk topological invariants and the topologically protected gapless boundary states. Using the particle-hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-20 Masatoshi Sato

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen