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Spin-orbital liquids provide an exactly solvable route to three-dimensional Z2 quantum spin liquids beyond the original Kitaev setting. Built from higher-dimensional Clifford-algebra representations, spin-orbital Hamiltonians can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-09 Anna Sandberg , Lukas Rødland , Maria Hermanns

One of the most promising proposals for engineering topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions employs a spin-orbit coupled nanowire subjected to a magnetic field and proximate to an s-wave superconductor. When only part of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 L. Fidkowski , J. Alicea , N. Lindner , R. M. Lutchyn , M. P. A. Fisher

All independent interaction vertices involving massless (Fang--Fronsdal) fermions in three dimensions are classified, completing the classification of interactions of massless fields of any spin. Similarly to the bosonic case, we get no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Stefan Fredenhagen , Filipp Lausch , Karapet Mkrtchyan

We study a superconductor-normal state-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction along the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) with a superconducting $\pi$-phase across the junction. We solve self-consistently for the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-05 Umberto Borla , Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We construct spin-$3/2$ and spin-$7/2$ models on the square-octagon and checkerboard lattices that are exactly solvable with Majorana representations. They give rise to spin-liquid phases with full spin-rotation and lattice-translational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-01 João Augusto Sobral , Pietro M. Bonetti , Subrata Mandal , Mathias S. Scheurer

We investigate the collisions of Majorana zero modes, which are presented as inter-soliton collisional events in fermionic superfluids with spin-orbit coupling. Our results demonstrate that, the zero energy splitting, induced by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-27 Liang-Liang Wang , Wenjun Shao , Jian Li

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

We construct an exactly solvable spin-orbital model on a decorated square lattice that realizes an SU(2)-invariant Majorana spin liquid with parton Fermi surfaces, of the kind discussed recently by Biswas et al. [ Phys. Rev. B. {\bf 83},…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-29 Hsin-Hua Lai , Olexei I. Motrunich

We present a simple criterion for solvability of lattice spin systems on the basis of the graph theory and the simplicial homology. The lattice systems satisfy algebras with graphical representations. It is shown that the null spaces of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Masahiro Ogura , Yukihisa Imamura , Naruhiko Kameyama , Kazuhiko Minami , Masatoshi Sato

We study the interacting dimerized Kitaev chain at the symmetry point $\Delta=t$ and the chemical potential $\mu=0$ under open boundary conditions, which can be exactly solved by applying two Jordan-Wigner transformations and a spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-03 Yucheng Wang , Jian-Jian Miao , Hui-Ke Jin , Shu Chen

Experimental evidence was recently obtained for topological superconductivity in spin-orbit coupled nano wires in a magnetic field, proximate to an s-wave superconductor. When only part of the wire contacts the superconductor, a localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-31 Ian Affleck , Domenico Giuliano

We study planar Josephson junctions formed on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (Fu-Kane proposal) and examine the experimentally relevant parameter regimes in which the effective velocity of the emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Adrian Reich , Kiryl Piasotski , Eytan Grosfeld , Alexander Shnirman

We investigate the sub gap properties of a three terminal Josephson T-junction composed of topologically superconducting wires connected by a normal metal region. This system naturally hosts zero energy Andreev bound states which are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Christian Spånslätt , Eddy Ardonne

We characterize the Majorana zero modes in topological hybrid superconductor-semiconductor wires with spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, in terms of generalized Bloch coordinates $\varphi, \theta, \delta$, and analyze their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Armando A. Aligia , Diego Pérez Daroca , Liliana Arrachea

We propose a platform for engineering helical fermions in a hybridized double-quantum-wire setup. When our setup is proximity coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor it can become a class $D$ topological superconductor exhibiting Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-19 Ömer M. Aksoy , John R. Tolsma

In this study, a spin-1/2 extended anisotropic XY chain has been introduced in which both time reversal and SU(2) symmetries are broken but $Z_2$ symmetry is preserved. Magnetic and topological phase diagrams in the parameter space have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Rakesh Kumar Malakar , Asim Kumar Ghosh

We introduce several exact models for SU(3) spin chains: (1) a translationally invariant parent Hamiltonian involving four-site interactions for the trimer chain, with a three-fold degenerate ground state. We provide numerical evidence that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Greiter , Stephan Rachel , Dirk Schuricht

Recently there has been much effort in understanding topological phases of matter with gapless bulk excitations, which are characterized by topological invariants and protected intrinsic boundary states. Here we show that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Robert Schaffer , Eric Kin-Ho Lee , Yuan-Ming Lu , Yong Baek Kim

Junctions of one-dimensional systems are of great interest to the development of synthetic materials that harbor topological phases. We study a junction of three gapless spin-1 chains described by the $\mathrm{SU(2)}_{2}$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-29 Hernan B. Xavier , Rodrigo G. Pereira

We present three classes of exactly solvable models for fermion and boson systems, based on the pairing interaction. These models are solvable in any dimension. As an example we show the first results for fermion interacting with repulsive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Dukelsky , C. Esebbag , P. Schuck