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We propose that doped Weyl semimetals with four Weyl points are natural candidates to realize higher-order topological superconductors, which exhibit a fully gapped bulk while the surface hosts robust gapless chiral hinge states. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-13 Ammar Jahin , Apoorv Tiwari , Yuxuan Wang

Among numerous hypotheses, recently proposed to explain superconductivity in iron-based superconductors [1-9], many consider Fermi surface (FS) nesting [2, 4, 8, 10] and dimensionality [4, 9] as important contributors. Precise determination…

We present the ultralow-temperature thermal conductivity measurements on single crystals of transition-metal dichalcogenide material 4Hb-TaS$_{2}$, which has recently been proposed as a topological superconductor candidate. In zero field, a…

Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) can adopt two distinct structures corresponding to different coordination of the metal atoms. TMDCs adopting the T-type structure exhibit a rich and diverse set of phenomena, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Daniel T. Larson , Wei Chen , Steven B. Torrisi , Jennifer Coulter , Shiang Fang , Efthimios Kaxiras

Spin-triplet superconductivity is a condensate of electron pairs with spin-1 and an odd-parity wavefunction. A particularly interesting manifestation of triplet pairing is a chiral p-wave state which is topologically non-trivial and a…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) usually show simple structures, however, with interesting properties. Recently some TMDs have been pointed out as type-II Dirac semimetals. In the present work, we investigate the physical properties…

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are renowned for their rich and varied properties. They range from metals and superconductors to strongly spin-orbit-coupled semiconductors and charge-density-wave systems, with their single-layer…

Discovery of the new two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semimetals incorporating both superconductivity and the topological band structure has provided a novel platform for realizing the intriguing applications of Dirac fermions and Majorana…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-19 Ali Ebrahimian , Mehrdad Dadsetani , Reza Asgari

It is demonstrated that SC mechanism of doped Fe-based compounds is characteristic for itinerant electron systems with coexistence of both (e-e)- and (e-h)-pairing arising due to electron-phonon and Coulomb interactions, respectively. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-05-28 L. S. Mazov

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising for two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting devices and novel phenomena. For 2D applications, their work function, ionization energy, and electron affinity are required as a function of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-16 Han-gyu Kim , Hyoung Joon Choi

Two-dimensional Janus transition-metal chalcogenide -hydrides (2D-JTMCs) feature a three layered structure, with a central layer of transition metal atoms, with chalcogenides below and hydogens above. This asymmetry endows 2D-JTMCs with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-30 Jakkapat Seeyangnok , Udomsilp Pinsook , Graeme John Ackland

We report a configuration strategy for improving the thermoelectric (TE) performance of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) WS2 based on the experimentally prepared WS2/WSe2 lateral superlattice (LS) crystal. On the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-27 Yonglan Hu , Tie Yang , Dengfeng Li , Guangqian Ding , Chaochao Dun , Dandan Wu , Xiaotian Wang

We model the newly synthesized magic-angle twisted bilayer-graphene superconductor with two $p_{x,y}$-like Wannier orbitals on the superstructure honeycomb lattice, where the hopping integrals are constructed via the Slater-Koster formulism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-28 Cheng-Cheng Liu , Li-Da Zhang , Wei-Qiang Chen , Fan Yang

Competition between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional and topological superconductivity. However, the experimental confirmation of the presence of Majorana edge states and unconventional pairing currently poses a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-03 Flavio Noronha , Askery Canabarro , Rafael Chaves , Rodrigo G. Pereira

Layered van der Waals transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), generally composed of three atomic X-M-X planes in each layer (M = transition metal, X = chalcogen), provide versatile platforms for exploring diverse quantum phenomena. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Yi Han , Ya-Ning Ren , Ruo-Han Zhang , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Yu Zhang , Lin He

Topological superconductors should be able to provide essential ingredients for quantum computing, but are very challenging to realize. Spin-orbit interaction in iron-based superconductors opens the energy gap between the $p$-states of…

The possibility of realizing pair density wave (PDW) phases, in which Cooper pairs have a finite momentum, presents an interesting challenge that has been studied in a wide variety of systems. In conventional superconductors, this is only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-30 Daniel Shaffer , F. J. Burnell , Rafael M. Fernandes

Since the discovery of MgB2 with Tc=39K, various metal diborides of MB2 have been intensively studied to find possible conventional high-temperature superconductors. A possible 2D structure of the metal diboride has been shown to be in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-19 Jakkapat Seeyangnok , Udomsilp Pinsook , Graeme John Ackland

Superconductors based on transition metal dichalcogenides are of substantial current relevance, towards attaining topological superconductivity. Here we report a detailed study on the synthesis and electromagnetic characterization of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-11 K. Yadav , M. Lamba , M. Singh , A. Kumar , S. Patnaik

Strong evidence of unconventional superconductivity has been very recently reported experimentally in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayer and gathered a significant amount of interest. Here we consider the Hubbard model on a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-29 Andrzej Biborski , Michał Zegrodnik