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Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in moir\'e systems, where a lattice mismatch or twist between…

The surface of a 3D topological insulator is described by a helical electron state with the electron's spin and momentum locked together. We show that in the presence of ferromagnetic fluctuations the surface of a topological insulator is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-16 Mehdi Kargarian , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor Galitski

Van der Waals (vdW) heterobilayers formed by two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) created a promising platform for various electronic and optical properties. ab initio band results indicate that the band offset of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-04 Yuanyuan Wang , Fengping Li , Wei Wei , Baibiao Huang , Ying Dai

One-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity is a state of matter that is not found in nature. However, it can be realised, for example, by inducing superconductivity into the quantum spin Hall edge state of a two-dimensional…

We study possible superconducting states in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers, assuming an on-site pairing potential that includes both intra- and inter-orbital terms. We find that if the mirror symmetry with respect to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-24 Gilad Margalit , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

We discuss a pairing mechanism in interacting two-dimensional multipartite lattices that intrinsically leads to a second order topological superconducting state with a spatially modulated gap. When the chemical potential is close to Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-28 Tommy Li , Max Geier , Julian Ingham , Harley D. Scammell

Exciton binding energies of hundreds of meV and strong light absorption in the optical frequency range make transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) promising for novel optoelectronic nanodevices. In particular, atomically thin TMDs can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Simon Ovesen , Samuel Brem , Christopher Linderälv , Mikael Kuisma , Paul Erhart , Malte Selig , Ermin Malic

Multigap superconductivity emerges when superconducting gaps form on distinct Fermi surfaces. Arising from locally overlapping atomic orbitals, multiple superconducting bands introduce a new internal degree of freedom in the material that,…

The search for chiral topological superconductivity in magnetic topological insulator (TI)-FeTe heterostructures is a key frontier in condensed matter physics, with potential applications in topological quantum computing. The combination of…

Stacking atomic monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) has emerged as an effective way to engineer their properties. In principle, the staggered band alignment of TMD heterostructures should result in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 M. Baranowski , A. Surrente , L. Klopotowski , J. M. Urban , N. Zhang , D. K. Maude , K. Wiwatowski , S. Mackowski , Y. C. Kung , D. Dumcenco , A. Kis , P. Plochocka

We find a series of topological phase transitions in a half-metal/superconductor heterostructure, by tuning the direction of the magnetization of the half-metal film. These include transitions between a topological superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-18 Lei Hao , C. S. Ting

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) stabilize in multiple structural forms with profoundly distinct and exotic electronic phases. Interfacing different layer types is a promising route to manipulate TMDs' properties, not only as…

Signatures of unconventional superconductivity have been reported in a wide range of van der Waals (vdW) materials. However, their microscopic origin remains unclear due to competing electronic orders, strong spin-orbit coupling, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-08 Ankan Biswas , Jagannath Sutradhar , Sudip Kumar Saha , Avraham Klein , Jonathan Ruhman

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

Topological electronics has extended its richness to non-electronic systems where phonons and magnons can play the role of electrons. In particular, topological phases of magnons can be enabled by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Yu-Hang Li , Ran Cheng

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

In the framework of the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism, we investigate the transport properties in the surface of a 3-dimensional topological insulator-based hybrid structure, where the ferromagnetic and superconducting orders are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 M. Khezerlou , H. Goudarzi

I study the edge states of the topological exciton condensate formed by Coulomb interaction between two parallel surfaces of a strong topological insulator. When the condensate is contacted by superconductors with a {\pi} phase shift across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Babak Seradjeh

The surface of superconducting topological insulators (STIs) has been recognized as an effective $p\pm ip$ superconductivity platform for realizing elusive Majorana fermions. Chiral Majorana modes (CMMs), which are different from Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-30 Ching-Kai Chiu , Guang Bian , Hao Zheng , Jiaxin Yin , Songtian S. Zhang , Su-Yang Xu , M. Zahid Hasan

Topological superconductors are associated with the appearance of Majorana bound states, with promising applications in topologically protected quantum computing. In this Letter, we study a system where a skyrmion crystal is interfaced with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-14 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø