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We derive the quasiclassical equations that describe two-dimensional superconductors with a large Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in the presence of impurities. These equations account for the helical phase induced by an in-plane magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-31 Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer

We study the effect of disorder in systems having a non-trivial Euler class. As these recently proposed multi-gap topological phases come about by braiding non-Abelian charged band nodes residing between different bands to induce stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager

We show that a two-dimensional semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling could be driven into the second-order topological superconducting phase when a mixed-pairing state is introduced. The superconducting order we consider involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiaoyu Zhu

Theoretical studies have shown that Majorana bound states can be induced at the ends of a one dimensional wire, a phenomenon possible due to the interplay between s-wave superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling, and an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Andrzej Ptok

Flat-band Majorana bound states of nodal $p$-wave superconductors give rise to striking electromagnetic anomalies, reflecting their high degree of degeneracy at the Fermi level. However, experimental investigations of these states have been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-17 Yutaro Nagae , Leo Katayama , Satoshi Ikegaya

We study the interplay between superconductivity and altermagnetism in disordered systems using recently derived quantum kinetic transport equations. Starting from this framework, we derive the Ginzburg-Landau free energy and identify, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-05 Rodrigo de las Heras , Tim Kokkeler , Stefan Ilić , Ilya V. Tokatly , F. Sebastian Bergeret

We perform a theoretical study of the orbital effect of a magnetic field on a proximity-coupled islands array of $p_{x}+ip_{y}$ topological superconductors. To describe the system, we generalize the tight-binding model of the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

The existence of edge states and zero energy modes in vortex cores is a hallmark of topologically nontrivial phases realized in various condensed matter systems such as the fractional quantum Hall states, p+ip superconductors, and Z_2…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-03 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

Topological superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional systems is a novel phase of matter with possible implications for quantum computation. Despite years of effort, a definitive signature of this phase in experiments is still debated. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Omri Lesser , Andrew Saydjari , Marie Wesson , Amir Yacoby , Yuval Oreg

We consider a general problem of a Josephson contact between two multiband superconductors with coexisting superconducting and magnetic phases. As a particular example, we use the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Ammar A. Kirmani , Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

Contrary to the widespread belief that Majorana zero-energy modes, existing as bound edge states in 2D topological insulator (TI)-superconductor (SC) hybrid structures, are unaffected by non-magnetic static disorder by virtue of Anderson's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Hoi-Yin Hui , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We introduce a class of superconductors termed "quantized quadrupole superconductors" that support Majorana corner modes according to the bulk-corner correspondence, distinct from previous works on the second-order topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Yun-Mei Li , Yongwei Huang , Kai Chang

Recently, the structural disorder-induced topological phase transitions in periodic systems have attracted much attention. However, in aperiodic systems such as quasicrystalline systems, the interplay between structural disorder and band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Tan Peng , Yong-Chen Xiong , Chun-Bo Hua , Zheng-Rong Liu , Xiaolu Zhu , Wei Cao , Fang Lv , Yue Hou , Bin Zhou , Ziyu Wang , Rui Xiong

Electrons that are confined to a single Landau level in a two dimensional electron gas realize the effects of strong electron-electron repulsion in its purest form. The kinetic energy of individual electrons is completely quenched and all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 David F. Mross , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , Gilad Margalit , Moty Heiblum

Recently, a new family of symmetry-protected higher-order topological insulators has been proposed and was shown to host lower-dimensional boundary states. However, with the existence of the strong disorder in the bulk, the crystal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Jiacheng Bao , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

The quest for the topological phases of matter in an aperiodic system has been greatly developed recently. Here we investigate the effects of disorder on topological phases of a two-dimensional Ammann-Beenker tiling quasicrystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Tan Peng , Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

We present a unified study of the effect of periodic, quasiperiodic and disordered potentials on topological phases that are characterized by Majorana end modes in 1D p-wave superconducting systems. We define a topological invariant derived…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 Wade DeGottardi , Diptiman Sen , Smitha Vishveshwara

Majorana zero modes have been shown to be the simplest quasiparticles exhibiting pure odd-frequency pairing, an effect that has so far been theoretically established in the static regime. In this work, we investigate the formation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-23 Eslam Ahmed , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

We study quasiparticle states on a surface of a topological insulator (TI) with proximity-induced superconductivity under an external magnetic field. An applied magnetic field creates two Majorana bound states: a vortex Majorana state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-02 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Yuki Kawaguchi , Yukio Tanaka

We study the competition of disorder and superconductivity for a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor in incommensurate potentials. With the increase in the strength of the incommensurate potential, the system undergoes a transition from a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-20 Xiaoming Cai , Li-Jun Lang , Shu Chen , Yupeng Wang