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In the present Colloquium, we focus on the properties of 1-D magnetic systems on solid surfaces. From the emulation of 1-D quantum phases to the potential realization of Majorana edge states, spin chains are unique systems to study. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Deung-Jang Choi , Nicolas Lorente , Jens Wiebe , Kirsten von Bergmann , Alexander F. Otte , Andreas J. Heinrich

We present an ab initio modeling framework to simulate Majorana transport in 2D semiconducting materials, paving the way for topological qubits based on 2D nanoribbons. By combining density-functional-theory and quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Y. Lee , T. Agarwal , M. Luisier

We propose a general recipe for chiral topological superconductor (TSC) in two dimensions with multiple $N$ chiral Majorana fermion modes from a quantied anomalous Hall insulator in proximity to an s-wave superconductor with nontrivial band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Jing Wang , Biao Lian

Much interest in the superconducting proximity effect in three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) has been driven by the potential to induce Majorana bound states at the interface. Most candidate materials for 3D TI, however, are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-10 Kyungmin Lee , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mark H. Fischer , Eun-Ah Kim

Topological superconductivity is an exotic quantum phenomenon with coupled nontrivial topological order and superconductivity together. A direct idea for producing topological superconductors is to create superconductivity based on the well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Hao Yu , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Wei-Jian Li , Liu-Cheng Chen , Zi-Yu Cao , Di Li , Xiaoying Qin , Chang-De Gong , Xiao-Jia Chen

While topological superconductors are predicted to provide building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computing, one of the remaining challenges is to find a convenient experimental platform that would allow patterning of circuits. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Jerome T. Mlack , Atikur Rahman , Gopinath Danda , Natalia Drichko , Sarah Friedensen , Marija Drndic , Nina Markovic

Spin-triplet superconductors are novel materials capable of harboring Majorana bound states that can be used in topological quantum computing. However, such bulk materials are still rare. Here we review the results that established K2Cr3As3…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-22 Guo-qing Zheng

Topological superconductors have shown great potential in the search for unique quasiparticles such as Majorana fermions. Combining nontrivial band topology and superconductivity can lead to topological superconductivity due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-22 Richard Zhan , Xuan Luo

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

The discovery of novel high-temperature superconductor materials holds transformative potential for a wide array of technological applications. However, the combinatorially vast chemical and configurational search space poses a significant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-25 Xiaoyang Wang , Chengqian Zhang , Zhenyu Wang , Hanyu Liu , Jian Lv , Han Wang , Weinan E , Yanming Ma

The mechanism of the unconventional topological superconductivity (TSC) remains a long-standing issue. We investigate the quantum phase diagram of the extended $t$-$J$-$J_{\chi}$ model including spin chiral interactions on triangular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-18 Yixuan Huang , D. N. Sheng

We propose an experiment-based strategy for finding new high transition temperature superconductors that is based on the well-established spin fluctuation magnetic gateway to superconductivity in which the attractive quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-19 David Pines

Recent proposals for the realization of time-reversal symmetry breaking and topological superconductivity in twisted nodal superconductors have led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of these systems, marking one of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-20 J. H. Pixley , Pavel A. Volkov

Over the last decade, there have been considerable efforts to observe non-abelian quasi-particles in novel quantum materials and devices. These efforts are motivated by the goals of demonstrating quantum statistics of quasi-particles beyond…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-26 Ali Yazdani , Felix von Oppen , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby

2D topological insulators promise novel approaches towards electronic, spintronic, and quantum device applications. This is owing to unique features of their electronic band structure, in which bulk-boundary correspondences enforces the…

Transiently Powered Computers (TPCs) are novel devices that are battery-less and operate using only ambient energy. Therefore TPCs are prone to frequent power interruptions, and such the need for developing TPC-centric algorithms is a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Henko Aantjes , Amjad Y. Majid , Przemysław Pawełczak

Even though superconductivity has been studied intensively for more than a century, the vast majority of superconductivity research today is carried out in nearly the same manner as decades ago. That is, each study tends to focus on only a…

We introduce two-dimensional topological insulators in proximity to high-temperature cuprate or iron-based superconductors as high-temperature platforms of Majorana Kramers pairs of zero modes. The proximity-induced pairing at the helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Zhongbo Yan , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

New developments in superconductivity, particularly through unexpected and often astonishing forms of superconducting materials, continue to excite the community and stimulate theory. It is now becoming clear that there are two distinct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-13 Qijin Chen , Zhiqiang Wang , Rufus Boyack , Shuolong Yang , K. Levin

Majorana fermions are predicted to play a crucial role in condensed matter realizations of topological quantum computation. These heretofore undiscovered quasiparticles have been predicted to exist at the cores of vortex excitations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Pouyan Ghaemi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert
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