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The (Bi2)m(Bi2Te3)n homologous series possess natural multilayer heterostructure with intriguing physical properties at ambient pressure. Herein, we report the pressure-dependent evolution of the structure and electrical transport of the…

Topological materials host fascinating low dimensional gapless states at the boundary. As a prominent example, helical topological edge states (TESs) of two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs) and their stacked three-dimensional (3D)…

Interest in the superconducting proximity effect has been reinvigorated recently by novel optoelectronic applications as well as by the possible emergence of the elusive Majorana fermion at the interface between topological insulators and…

A key challenge in condensed matter research is the optimization of topological insulator (TI) compounds for the study and future application of their unique surface states. Truly insulating bulk states would allow the exploitation of…

Single crystals of In-doped PbBi2Te4 are synthesized via a conventional solid-state method. Chemical analysis and hall measurements indicate that In replaces Pb, introducing n-type carriers, creating Pb1-xInxBi2Te4. A superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Xianghan Xu , Danrui Ni , Weiwei Xie , R. J. Cava

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter with surface states protected by the time-reversal symmetry. In this work, we perform first-principle electronic structure calculations for $Sb_2Te_3$, $Sb_2Se_3$, $Bi_2Te_3$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Haijun Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Strong spin-orbit coupling, resulting in the formation of spin-momentum-locked surface states, endows topological insulators with superior spin-to-charge conversion characteristics, though the dynamics that govern it have remained elusive.…

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

Topological phases are characterised by a topological invariant that remains unchanged by deformations in the Hamiltonian. Materials exhibiting topological phases include topological insulators, superconductors exhibiting strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Dimitrie Culcer , Attila Geresdi

Spontaneous rotational-symmetry breaking in the superconducting state of doped $\mathrm{Bi}_2\mathrm{Se}_3$ has attracted significant attention as an indicator for topological superconductivity. In this paper, high-resolution calorimetry of…

Topological superfluid $^3$He, with unconventional spin-triplet p-wave pairing, provides a model system for topological superconductors, which have attracted significant interest through potential applications in topologically protected…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-11 P. J. Heikkinen , A. Casey , L. V. Levitin , X. Rojas , A. Vorontsov , P. Sharma , N. Zhelev , J. M. Parpia , J. Saunders

Topological Dirac semimetals (TDSs) exhibit bulk Dirac cones protected by time reversal and crystal symmetry, as well as surface states originating from non-trivial topology. While there is a manifold possible onset of superconducting order…

In this Book Chapter (invited) we briefly review the basic concepts defining topological insulators and focus on elaborating on the key experimental results that revealed and established their symmetry protected (SPT) topological nature. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Madhab Neupane

The topological insulators represent a unique state of matter where the bulk is insulating with an energy gap while the surface is metallic with a Dirac cone protected by the time reversal symmetry. These characteristics provide a venue to…

The Zintl compound AIn2X2 (A = Ca, Sr, and X = P, As), as a theoretically predicted new non-magnetic topological insulator, requires experiments to understand their electronic structure and topological characteristics. In this paper, we…

Owing to the specific topological states in nodal-line semimetals, novel topological superconductivity is expected to emerge in these systems. In this letter, by combination of the first-principles calculations and resistivity,…

Recent theories and experiments have suggested that strong spin-orbit coupling effects in certain band insulators can give rise to a new phase of quantum matter, the so-called topological insulator, which can show macroscopic entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 Y. Xia , D. Qian , D. Hsieh , L. Wray , A. Pal , H. Lin , A. Bansil , D. Grauer , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

The existence of multiple superconducting phases induced by either pressure or magnetic field is one of the most striking features of superconductivity of UTe$_2$, among the many unusual superconducting properties of this system. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-24 T. Vasina , D. Aoki , A. Miyake , G. Seyfarth , A. Pourret , C. Marcenat , M. Amano Patino , G. Lapertot , J. Flouquet , J. -P. Brison , D. Braithwaite , G. Knebel

We report thermoelectric (TE) properties of topological surface Dirac states (TSDS) in three-dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs) purely isolated from the bulk by employing single crystal Bi$_{2-x}$Sb$_x$Te$_{3-y}$Se$_y$ films…

The Dirac semimetal PdTe$_2$ was recently reported to be a type-I superconductor ($T_c = $1.64 K, $\mu_0 H_c (0) = 13.6$ mT) with unusual superconductivity of the surface sheath. We here report a high-pressure study, $p \leq 2.5$ GPa, of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-09 H. Leng , A. Ohmura , L. N. Anh , F. Ishikawa , T. Naka , Y. K. Huang , A. de Visser