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The emergent higher-order topological insulators significantly deepen our understanding of topological physics. Recently, the study has been extended to topological semimetals featuring gapless bulk band nodes. To date, higherorder nodal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-30 Huahui Qiu , Yuzeng Li , Qicheng Zhang , Chunyin Qiu

Topological phononic insulators are the counterpart of three-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators in phononic systems and, as such, their topological surfaces are characterized by Dirac cone-shaped gapless edge states arising as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniele Di Miceli , Chandan Setty , Alessio Zaccone

We study the quasiparticle spectrum of 2D topological $s$-wave superconductors with the Zeeman magnetic field and the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity. Solving the real-space Bogoliubov-de Gennes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuki Nagai , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

In Z2 topological metals, nontrivial band topology and strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) impose symmetry constraints that can stabilize unconventional superconducting states, even when thermodynamic probes indicate an isotropic gap. Here, we…

The realization of Majorana corner modes generally requires unconventional superconducting pairing or $s$-wave pairing. However, the bulk nodes in unconventional superconductors and the low $T_c$ of $s$-wave superconductors are not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-14 Yu-Xuan Li , Cheng-Cheng Liu

The possibility of inducing topological superconductivity with cuprate high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) is studied for various heterostructures. We first consider a ballistic planar junction between a HTSC and a metallic ferromagnet.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 So Takei , Benjamin M. Fregoso , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

We develop a unified numerical approach for modeling semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. Our approach takes into account on equal footing important key ingredients: proximity-induced superconductivity, orbital and Zeeman effect…

Higher-order topological states that possess gapped bulk energy bands and exotic topologically protected boundary states with at least two dimension lower than the bulk have significantly opened a new perspective for understanding of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-31 Zhoutao Lei , Linhu Li , Yuangang Deng

We classify discrete-rotation symmetric topological crystalline superconductors (TCS) in two dimensions and provide the criteria for a zero energy Majorana bound state (MBS) to be present at composite defects made from magnetic flux,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-23 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Taylor L. Hughes

The prospect of coupling a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructure to a superconductor opens new research and technology opportunities, including fundamental problems in mesoscopic superconductivity, scalable superconducting…

We investigate the interplay between topological effects and Mott physics in two dimensions on a graphene-like lattice, via a tight-binding model containing an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling on the next-nearest-neighbour links and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Tianhan Liu , Benoît Douçot , Karyn Le Hur

In this paper, we present a detailed study on the phase diagrams of superconducting topological surface states, especially, focusing on the interplay between crystalline symmetry and topology of the effective BdG Hamiltonian. We show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-21 W. H. Zhao , L. L. Ding , B. W. Zhou , J. Y. Wu , Y. Bai , Z. Y. Man , X. Luo

The interplay of time-reversal and $n$-fold rotation symmetries ($n=2,4,6$) is known to bring a new class of topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) having $n$ surface Dirac cones due to surface rotation anomaly. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Shingo Kobayashi , Akira Furusaki

Recently, much research has been dedicated to understanding topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes induced by a magnetic field in hybrid proximity structures. This paper proposes a realization of topological superconductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 G. Tkachov

We investigate the properties of a two-dimensional quasicrystal in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. In this configuration, the density of states (DOS) displays a Hofstadter butterfly-like structure when it is represented as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Duc-Thanh Tran , Alexandre Dauphin , Nathan Goldman , Pierre Gaspard

We demonstrate that a plethora of higher order topological phases emerge in magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems through the interplay of a stacked magnetic structure and an underlying triangular surface lattice; the latter being of…

We demonstrate that checkerboard magnet-superconductor hybrid systems possess a rich phase diagram exhibiting both strong topological superconducting (STSC) and topological nodal point superconducting (TNPSC) phases. We show that TNPSC…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-30 Tuan Kieu , Eric Mascot , Jasmin Bedow , Roland Wiesendanger , Dirk K. Morr

We show theoretically that a heterostructure of monolayer FeTe$_{1-x}$Se$_x$ - a superconducting quantum spin Hall material - with a monolayer of FeTe - a bicollinear antiferromagnet - realizes a higher order topological superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-23 Rui-Xing Zhang , William S. Cole , Xianxin Wu , S. Das Sarma

Two-dimensional $p_x+ip_y$ topological superconductors host gapless Majorana edge modes, as well as Majorana bound states at the core of $h/2e$ vortices. Here we construct a model realizing the fractional counterpart of this phase: a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Eran Sagi , Arbel Haim , Erez Berg , Felix von Oppen , Yuval Oreg

We consider a heterostructure of semiconductor layers sandwiched between two superconductors, forming a two-dimensional Josephson junction. Applying a Zeeman field perpendicular to the junction can render a topological superconducting phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Shao-Kai Jian , Shuai Yin