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We show that the bulk-boundary correspondence for topological insulators can be modified in the presence of non-Hermiticity. We consider a one-dimensional tight-binding model with gain and loss as well as long-range hopping. The system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Tony E. Lee

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

Surfaces of nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors can host flat bands of Majorana modes, which provide a promising platform for quantum computation if one can find methods for manipulating localized Majorana wave packets. We study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-09 Clara J. Lapp , Carsten Timm

Motivated by the indications of high-Tc superconductivity in natural graphite enriched in the rhombohedral phase, we study the band structure of several stacking configurations that combine two of the three graphite structures as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 R. Weht , A. A. Aligia , M. Nunez-Regueiro

A bulk superconductor possessing a topological surface state at the Fermi level is a promising system to realize long-sought topological superconductivity. Although several candidate materials have been proposed, experimental demonstrations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-07 K. Iwaya , Y. Kohsaka , K. Okawa , T. Machida , M. S. Bahramy , T. Hanaguri , T. Sasagawa

Many quantum condensed matter systems are strongly correlated and strongly interacting fermionic systems, which cannot be treated perturbatively. However, topology allows us to determine generic features of their fermionic spectrum, which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-04-07 M. A. Silaev , G. E. Volovik

Topological properties of a periodic condensed matter system are global features of its Brillouin zone (BZ). In contrast, the validity of effective low energy theories is usually limited to the vicinity of a high symmetry point in the BZ.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Jan Carl Budich , Björn Trauzettel

In topological semimetals such as Weyl, Dirac, and nodal-line semimetals, the band gap closes at points or along lines in k space which are not necessarily located at high-symmetry positions in the Brillouin zone. Therefore, it is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-09 Motoaki Hirayama , Ryo Okugawa , Shuichi Murakami

We study the effect of spatial modulations in the interlayer hopping of graphene bilayers, such as those that arise upon shearing or twisting. We show that their single-particle physics, characterized by charge accumulation and recurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Pablo San-Jose , Jose Gonzalez , Francisco Guinea

Electronic flat bands have localized Wannier-like orbitals as zero modes. In the Lieb or the kagome models, the localized orbitals satisfy a topological condition that entails two non-contractible loop eigenstates along $x/y$-axis in real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Rui-Heng Liu , Jiangping Hu , Chen Fang

Riemann surfaces are geometric constructions in complex analysis that may represent multi-valued holomorphic functions using multiple sheets of the complex plane. We show that the energy dispersion of surface states in topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Chen Fang , Ling Lu , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu

We present the appearance of nearly flat band states with nonzero Chern numbers in a two-dimensional "diamond-octagon" lattice model comprising two kinds of elementary plaquette geometries, diamond and octagon, respectively. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-17 Biplab Pal

We derive a low-energy effective $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ Hamiltonians for monolayer C$_{3}$N at the $ \Gamma $ and $ M $ points of the Brillouin zone where the band edge in the conduction and valence band can be found. Our analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Mohsen Shahbazi , Jamal Davoodi , Arash Boochani , Hadi Khanjani , Andor Kormányos

A nodal surface semimetal (NSSM) features symmetry enforced band crossings along a surface within the three-dimensional (3D) Brillouin zone (BZ) and a presence of a nonsymmorphic symmetry there pushes such surfaces to stick to the BZ center…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Bhaskar Pandit , Satyaki Kar

We propose helical topological superconductivity away from the Fermi surface in three-dimensional time-reversal-symmetric odd-parity multiband superconductors. In these systems, pairing between electrons originating from different bands is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Masoud Bahari , Song-Bo Zhang , Chang-An Li , Sang-Jun Choi , Philipp Rüßmann , Carsten Timm , Björn Trauzettel

Non-Hermitian topological phases, which exhibit unique features such as skin effect and exceptional points originated from nontrivial band topologies in complex plane, have attracted enormous attention in condensed-matter physics and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Yejian Hu , Jien Wu , Peidong Ye , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Ziyu Wang , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

We investigate a one-dimensional superconducting lattice that realizes all internal symmetries permitted in non-Hermitian systems, characterized by nonreciprocal hopping, onsite dissipation, and $s$-wave singlet pairing in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Chuo-Kai Chang , Kazuma Saito , Nobuyuki Okuma , Hsien-Chung Kao , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

We revisit the problem of surface states in semiconductors with inverted band structures, such as $\alpha$-Sn and HgTe. We unravel the confusion that arose over the past decade regarding the origin of the surface states, their topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Alexander Khaetskii , Vitaly Golovach , Arnold Kiefer

Helical spin chains, consisting of magnetic (ad-)atoms, on the surface of bulk superconductors are predicted to host Majorana bound states (MBSs) at the ends of the chain. Here, we investigate the prevalence of trivial zero-energy bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Richard Hess , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja