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The weak interlayer Van Der Waals material \{beta}-Bi2Pd has recently been established as a strong topological superconductor candidate with unconventional spin-triplet pairing and Majorana zero modes at vortices. In this letter, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Xin-Hai Tu , Peng-Fei Liu , Wen Yin , Jun-Rong Zhang , Ping Zhang , Bao-Tian Wang

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

Spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) causes spin-valley locking giving rise to unconventional optical, transport, and superconducting properties. In this paper, we propose exotic superconductivity in bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-13 Yasuharu Nakamura , Youichi Yanase

I perform a complete classification of 2d, quasi-1d and 1d topological superconductors which originate from the suitable combination of inhomogeneous Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetism and superconductivity. My analysis reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Panagiotis Kotetes

We analyze influence of a dimerization on the topological phases of the Rashba nanowire proximitized to a superconducting substrate. We find that periodic alternations of the hopping integral and spin-orbit coupling can lead to band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-14 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Maciej M. Maśka , Tadeusz Domański

Odd-frequency superconductivity represents a truly unconventional ordered state which, in contrast to conventional superconductivity, exhibits pair correlations which are odd in relative time and, hence, inherently dynamical. In this review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jorge Cayao , Christopher Triola , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Twisted nodal superconductors have been shown to exhibit chiral topological superconductivity under broken time-reversal symmetry. Here we show how a time-reversal preserving topological superconductivity can be induced in nodal triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Kevin P. Lucht , Pavel A. Volkov , J. H. Pixley

We study the vortex lattice in a two-dimensional s-wave topological superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations self-consistently for the superconducting order parameter. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-24 Evan D. B. Smith , K. Tanaka , Yuki Nagai

Topological nodal superconductors are generally realized based on unconventional pairings. In this work, we propose a minimal model to realize these topological nodal phases with only $s$-wave interaction. In our model the linear and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Beibing Huang , Xiaosen Yang , Ning Xu , Ming Gong

We study the proximity-induced superconducting state in a general bilayer -- conventional $s$-wave superconductor hybrid structure. For the bilayer we include a general parabolic dispersion, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and finite layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-02-03 Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Dirac semimetals, with their protected Dirac points, present an ideal platform for realizing intrinsic topological superconductivity. In this work, we investigate superconductivity in a two-dimensional, square-lattice nonsymmorphic Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-03 Xiao-Jiao Wang , Yijie Mo , Zhi Wang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Topological superconductors have been theoretically predicted as a new class of time-reversal-invariant superconductors which are fully gapped in the bulk but have protected gapless surface Andreev bound states. In this work, we provide a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Liang Fu , Erez Berg

We study theoretically the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with proximity-induced Ising and Rashba spin-orbit couplings on the top layer. Topological flat bands (with three distinct phases) are generically realized by the spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-11 Yang-Zhi Chou , Yuting Tan , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

Superconductivity has been observed in twisted MoTe2 within the anomalous Hall metal parent state. Key signatures-including a fully spin/valley polarized normal state, anomalous Hall resistivity hysteresis, superconducting phase adjacent to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Cheng Xu , Nianlong Zou , Nikolai Peshcherenko , Ammar Jahin , Tingxin Li , Shi-Zeng Lin , Yang Zhang

In iron-based superconductors, band inversion of $d$- and $p$-orbitals yields Dirac semimetallic states. We theoretically investigate their topological properties in normal and superconducting phases, based on the tight-binding model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-18 Takuto Kawakami , Masatoshi Sato

We show that Majorana fermions associated with Majorana flat bands emerge as zero energy modes on the [110] edge of single layer or multilayer nodal superconductors with $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave pairing and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Moreover,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-29 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Chris L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

We show that the surface of an $s$-wave superconductor decorated with a two-dimensional lattice of magnetic impurities can exhibit chiral topological superconductivity. If impurities order ferromagnetically and the superconducting surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Jian Li , Titus Neupert , Zhi Jun Wang , A. H. MacDonald , A. Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

We show that odd-parity superconductivity occurs in multilayer Rashba systems without requiring spin-triplet Cooper pairs. A pairing interaction in the spin-singlet channel stabilizes the odd-parity pair-density-wave (PDW) state in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-29 Tatsuya Watanabe , Tomohiro Yoshida , Youichi Yanase

We consider a 1D topological superconductor (TSC) constructed by coupling a pair of Kitaev's Majorana chains with opposite spin configurations. Such a 1D lattice model is known to be protected by a $T^2 = -1$ time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Alestin Mawrie

We identify time-reversal symmetry breaking mixed-parity superconducting states that feature eight Majorana corner modes in properly cleaved three-dimensional cubic crystals. Namely, when an odd-parity isotropic $p$-wave pairing coexists…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-11 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic