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We study the time-development processes of spin and charge transport phenomena in a topological Dirac semimetal attached to a ferromagnetic insulator with a precessing magnetization. Compared to conventional normal metals, topological Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Takahiro Misawa , Kentaro Nomura

The experiments in quantum spin Hall insulator candidate materials, such as HgTe/CdTe and InAs/GaSb heterostructures, indicate that in addition to the topologically protected helical edge modes these multilayer heterostructures may also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Nguyen Minh Nguyen , Giuseppe Cuono , Rajibul Islam , Carmine Autieri , Timo Hyart , Wojciech Brzezicki

We investigate helical edge states (HES) emerging at the composite domain wall of spin and pseudo-spin degrees of freedom in a 2-D bulk governed by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang Hamiltonian which underwent quantum spin Hall to anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Subhadeep Chakraborty , Vivekananda Adak , Sourin Das

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 study non-centrosymmetric topological superconductivity in correlated doped quantum spin-Hall insulators (QSHI) on honeycomb lattice without inversion symmetry where the intrinsic (Kane-Mele) and Rashba spin-orbit couplings can in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-12 Der-Hau Lee , Chung-Hou Chung

We propose to realize a two-dimensional chiral topological superconducting (TSC) state from the quantum anomalous Hall plateau transition in a magnetic topological insulator thin film through the proximity effect to a conventional $s$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Jing Wang , Quan Zhou , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) structures represent one of the most promising platforms to realize, control and manipulate Majorana modes using scanning tunneling methods. By depositing either chains or islands of magnetic atoms on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Crawford , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Inducing superconducting correlations in quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states offers a promising route to realize topological superconductivity with chiral Majorana edge modes. However, the definitive identification of these modes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Linghao Huang , Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

We experimentally confirm the \nu = 0 quantum Hall ferromagnetic (QHF) state, accompanied by helical edge states, in the layered organic Dirac-fermion system \alpha-(ET)2I3 by demonstrating helical edge transport in multilayers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Toshihito Osada , Mitsuyuki Sato , Takako Konoike , Woun Kang

Quantum Hall edge states in proximity to a superconductor (SC) usually acquire a non-quantized electron-to-hole conversion probability in transport, due to non-universal SC couplings and disorders. With counter-propagating modes, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Pok Man Tam , Hao Chen , Biao Lian

Second-order topological superconductors host Majorana corner and hingemodes in contrast to conventional edge and surface modes in two and three dimensions. However, the realization of such second-order corner modes usually demands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Ya-Jie Wu , Junpeng Hou , Yun-Mei Li , Xi-Wang Luo , Xiaoyan Shi , Chuanwei Zhang

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

Epitaxial bismuthene on SiC(0001) hosts symmetry-protected metallic edge states within a large bulk band gap, establishing it as a promising two-dimensional topological insulator for hightemperature quantum spin Hall (QSH) transport. Here…

Among the most interesting predictions in two-dimensional materials with a Dirac cone is the existence of the zeroth Landau level (LL), equally filled by electrons and holes with opposite chirality. The gapless edge states with helical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 G. M. Gusev , D. A. Kozlov , A. D. Levin , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

We identify three-dimensional higher-order superconductors characterized by the coexistence of one-dimensional Majorana hinge states and gapless surface sates. We show how such superconductors can be obtained starting from the model of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Xiang Hu , Taylor L. Hughes , Enrico Rossi

Superconductivity and quantum Hall effect are distinct states of matter occurring in apparently incompatible physical conditions. Recent theoretical developments suggest that the coupling of quantum Hall effect with a superconductor can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Manas Ranjan Sahu , Xin Liu , Arup Kumar Paul , Sourin Das , Pratap Raychaudhuri , J. K. Jain , Anindya Das

It has been demonstrated that topological quantum spin Hall (QSH) state exist in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides. However, a comprehensive theoretical characterization of the topological edge states remains a topic of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Shuai Li , Jian-Jun Liu , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An

We propose a setup that integrates a quantum point contact (QPC) and a Josephson junction on a quantum spin Hall sample, experimentally realizable in InAs/GaSb quantum wells. The confinement due to both the QPC and the superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Jian Li , Wei Pan , B. Andrei Bernevig , Roman M. Lutchyn

3D Dirac semi-metals (DSMs) are materials that have massless Dirac electrons and exhibit exotic physical properties It has been suggested that structurally distorting a DSM can create a Topological Insulator (TI), but this has not yet been…

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHI) have been proposed to power a number of applications, many of which rely on the possibility to switch on and off the non-trivial topology. Typically this control is achieved through strain or external…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-09 Antimo Marrazzo , Marco Gibertini