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Nodal topological superconductors display zero-energy Majorana flat bands at generic edges. The flatness of these edge bands, which is protected by time-reversal and translation symmetry, gives rise to an extensive ground-state degeneracy.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 Johannes S. Hofmann , Fakher F. Assaad , Andreas P. Schnyder

Majorana boundary quasiparticles may naturally emerge in a spin-singlet superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit interactions, when a Zeeman magnetic field breaks time-reversal symmetry. Their existence and robustness against adiabatic changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 C. Dutreix

Planar topological superconductors with power-law-decaying pairing display different kinds of topological phase transitions where quasiparticles dubbed nonlocal-massive Dirac fermions emerge. These exotic particles form through long-range…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 T. O. Puel , O. Viyuela

We study the Majorana bound states arising in quasi-one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman magnetic field. Using two different methods, first, the numerical diagonalization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Julien Despres , Ipsita Mandal , Cristina Bena

Topological superconductors are a class of unconventional superconducting materials featuring sub-gap zero-energy Majorana bound modes that hold promise as a building block for topological quantum computing. In this work, we study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-30 Zi-Ming Wang , Meng Zeng , Chen Lu , Da-Shuai Ma , Rui-Xing Zhang , Lun-Hui Hu , Dong-Hui Xu

At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

In proximity to an s-wave superconductor, a one- or two-dimensional, electron- or hole-doped semiconductor with a sizable spin-orbit coupling and a Zeeman splitting can support a topological superconducting (TS) state. The semiconductor TS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-28 Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the single and multiple defects embedded in a superconducting host, studying interplay between the proximity induced pairing and interactions. We explore influence of the spin-orbit coupling on energies, polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 S. Glodzik , A. Kobialka , A. Gorczyca-Goraj , A. Ptok , G. Gorski , M. M. Maska , T. Domanski

We study a semiconductor wire with strong spin-orbit coupling, which is proximity-coupled to a superconductor with chemical potential disorder. When tunneling at the semiconductor- superconductor interface is very weak, it is known that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-02 William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

In this paper we study the phase diagram of a disordered, spin-orbit coupled superconductor with $s$-wave or $d+id$-wave pairing symmetry in symmetry class $D$. We analyze the topological phase transitions by applying three different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-22 Jan Borchmann , Aaron Farrell , T. Pereg-Barnea

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the topological Anderson insulator and research interest on the topological quasicrystal lattices, we investigate the effects of disorder on topological properties of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

Two dimensional topological superconductors (TS) host chiral Majorana modes (MMs) localized at the boundaries. In this work, within quasiclassical approximation we study the effect of disorder on the localization length of MMs in two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Yao Lu , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

We investigate electronic transport across a magnetic domain wall (DW) in a three-dimensional (3D) second-order topological insulator subject to Anderson disorder. In the clean limit, the DW hosts two co-propagating one-dimensional (1D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Dong Zhou , Zhe Hou

We study a periodically driven one dimensional Kitaev model in the presence of disorder. In the clean limit our model exhibits four topological phases corresponding to the existence or non-existence of edge modes at zero and pi quasienergy.…

Moire minibands in twisted homobilayer semiconductors can, under suitable approximations, be modeled as a pair of Landau levels with opposite Chern numbers. This provides a minimal model for searching novel topological states in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Guopeng Xu , Chunli Huang

Conventional topological superconductors are fully gapped in the bulk but host gapless Majorana modes on their boundaries. We instead focus on a new class of superconductors, second-order topological superconductors, that have gapped,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-09 Yuxuan Wang , Mao Lin , Taylor L. Hughes

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

Applying a microscopic model, we study theoretically the quasiparticle excitation of a twodimensional topological insulator (TI) being in proximity to a high-Tc superconductor. In the momentum space, the proximity induced pairing term in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-02 Yu-Xuan Li , Tao Zhou

Disorder plays an important role in two dimensions, and is responsible for striking phenomena such as metal insulator transition and the integral and fractional quantum Hall effects. In this paper, we investigate the role of disorder in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-06 Jian Li , Rui-Lin Chu , J. K. Jain , Shun-Qing Shen