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We consider a system of stacked tunnel-coupled two-dimensional electron- and hole-gas layers with Rashba spin-orbit interactions subjected to a staggered Zeeman field. The interplay of different intra-layer tunnel couplings results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Kirill Plekhanov , Flavio Ronetti , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

A $d$-dimensional second-order topological insulator (SOTI) can host topologically protected $(d - 2)$-dimensional gapless boundary modes. Here we show that a 2D non-Hermitian SOTI can host zero-energy modes at its corners. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tao Liu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Qing Ai , Zongping Gong , Kohei Kawabata , Masahito Ueda , Franco Nori

Higher-order topological superconductivity typically depends on spin-orbit interaction, and often necessitates well designed sample structures, nodal superconducting pairings or complex magnetic order. In this work, we propose a model that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jinpeng Xiao , Qianglin Hu , Zuodong Yu , Weipeng Chen , Xiaobing Luo

A three-dimensional (3D) nodal-loop semimetal phase is exploited to engineer a number of intriguing phases featuring different peculiar topological surface states. In particular, by introducing various two-dimensional gap terms to a 3D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Linhu Li , Han Hoe Yap , Miguel A. N. Araújo , Jiangbin Gong

The concept of topological superconductivity has attracted immense interest in the physics community recently for several reasons: First, topological superconductors represent new phases of matter, topologically distinct from any other…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-07 Fabian O. von Rohr

We theoretically study potential unconventional superconductivity in doped AB-type IV-VI semi-conductors, based on a minimal effective model with interaction up to the next-nearest neighbors. According to the experimental implications, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-26 Zhe Li , Shengshan Qin , Jie Ren , Zhida Song , Dexi Shao , Chen Fang

Quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAH)/$s$-wave superconductor (SC) hybrid systems are known to be an ideal platform for realizing two-dimensional topological superconductors with chiral Majorana edge modes. In this paper we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Ryoi Ohashi , Shingo Kobayashi , Yukio Tanaka

Monoatomic chains with magnetic order in proximity of a s-wave superconductor can host Majorana edge modes. In this paper, we extend this idea to more complex spin-block chains such as the BaFe$_{2}$S$_{3}$ magnetic material that has a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-10 Shivam Yadav , Pascal Simon , Andrzej Ptok

Topological superconductivity is an exotic state of matter that supports Majorana zero-modes, which are surface modes in 3D, edge modes in 2D or localized end states in 1D. In the case of complete localization these Majorana modes obey…

Noncollinear magnetism opens exciting possibilities to generate topological superconductivity. Here, we focus on helical and cycloidal magnetic textures in magnet-superconductor hybrid structures in a background magnetic field. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-21 Stefan Rex , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

Altermagnet-superconductor heterostructures have been shown, in principle, to provide a route towards realising topological superconductivity, and therefore host topologically protected boundary states. In this work we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 George McArdle , Brian Kiraly , Peter Wadley , Adam Gammon-Smith

We study the magnetic susceptibility of a two-dimensional cone of Majorana modes localised at the surface of a three-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductor belonging to class DIII. A field parallel to the surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-09 Luca Chirolli , Francisco Guinea

We consider the coexistence of superconductivity(SC) and spin-density wave(SDW). The SC is presumed to be of $d_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy} (d_1 + i d_2) $ type whereas the SDW order parameter is of $BCS$/$d_{x y} $ symmetry. The Hamiltonian having…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Amit Gupta , Debanand Sa

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

We further investigate a class of time-reversal-invariant two-band s-wave topological superconductors introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036803 (2012). We show how, in the presence of time-reversal symmetry, Z_2 invariants that distinguish…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

Higher-order nodal line semimetals represent a recently proposed topological semimetal class that harbors bulk nodal lines and features gapless hinge Fermi arc excitations, governed by the bulk-hinge correspondence. In this study, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-25 Yue-Ran Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

We identify the possibility of realizing higher order topological (HOT) phases in noncrystalline or amorphous materials. Starting from two and three dimensional crystalline HOT insulators, accommodating topological corner states, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Adhip Agarwala , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

We calculate the phase diagram of a model for topological superconducting wires with local s-wave pairing, spin-orbit coupling $\vec{\lambda}$ and magnetic field $\vec{B}$ with arbitrary orientations. This model is a generalized lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Diego Pérez Daroca , Armando A. Aligia

A higher-order topological insulator is a new concept of topological states of matter, which is characterized by the emergent boundary states whose dimensionality is lower by more than two compared with that of the bulk, and draws a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-11 Hiromu Araki , Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu