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The vortex of iron-based superconductors is emerging as a promising platform for Majorana zero mode, owing to a magic integration among intrinsic vortex winding, non-trivial band topology, strong electron-electron correlations, high-Tc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-31 Lingyuan Kong , Hong Ding

We demonstrate a generic mechanism to realize topological flat minibands by confining massive Dirac fermions in a periodic moir\'e potential, which can be achieved in a heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Ying Su , Heqiu Li , Chuanwei Zhang , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

We report the emergence of Majorana flat bands (MFBs) in the vortex line of superconducting (SC) time-reversal-symmetry-breaking Weyl semimetals. By considering a Weyl semimetal as a stack of Chern insulators with varying Chern numbers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-05 Zhicheng Zhang , Kou-Han Ma

We propose and investigate a new platform for the realization of Majorana zero modes in a thin-film heterostructure composed of an easy-plane ferromagnet and a superconductor with spin-orbit coupling. The system can support an energetically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-04 Vedangi Pathak , Sayak Dasgupta , Marcel Franz

In the presence of both space and time reversal symmetries, an s-wave A1g superconducting state is usually topologically trivial. Here we demonstrate that an exception can take place in a type of nonsymmorphic lattice structures. We specify…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-17 Shengshan Qin , Chen Fang , Fu-Chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu

The engineering of non-trivial topology in superconducting heterostructures is a very challenging task. Reducing the number of components in the system would facilitate the creation of the long-sought Majorana bound states. Here, we explore…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-20 Stefan Rex , Roland Willa

Chiral topological superconductors are expected to appear as intermediate states when a quantum anomalous Hall system is proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor and the magnetization direction is reversed. In this paper we address the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Gaurav Chaudhary , Allan H. MacDonald

Zero-energy flat bands within the superconducting gap can give rise to competing ordered phases. We investigate such phases in topological superconductors based on the magnetic adatom platform hosting a flat band of Majorana edge states.…

We introduce the notion of a band-inverted, topological semimetal in two-dimensional nonsymmorphic crystals. This notion is materialized in the monolayers of MTe$_2$ (M $=$ W, Mo) if spin-orbit coupling is neglected. We characterize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lukas Muechler , Aris Alexandradinata , Titus Neupert , Roberto Car

We demonstrate a topological classification of vortices in three dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductors based on superconducting Dirac semimetals with an s-wave superconducting order parameter by means of a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Pedro L. S. Lopes , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Shinsei Ryu

We demonstrate how the non-trivial interplay between spin-orbit coupling and nodeless $s$-wave superconductivity can drive a fully gapped two-band topological insulator into a time-reversal invariant gapless topological superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-29 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Amrit Poudel , Lorenza Viola

Recent experiments have provided evidence that one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity can be realized experimentally by placing transition metal atoms that form a ferromagnetic chain on a superconducting substrate. We address…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Jian Li , Hua Chen , Ilya K. Drozdov , A. Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig , A. H. MacDonald

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

We analyze the topological properties of a chiral ${p}+i{p}$ superconductor for a two-dimensional metal/semimetal with four Dirac points. Such a system has been proposed to realize second-order topological superconductivity and host corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Apoorv Tiwari , Ammar Jahin , Yuxuan Wang

Topological nodal superconductors possess gapless low energy excitations that are characterized by point or line nodal Fermi surfaces. In this work, using a coupled wire construction, we study topological nodal superconductors that have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Moon Jip Park , Syed Raza , Matthew J. Gilbert , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

Superconductivity of a single two-dimensional Dirac fermion offers a natural route to topological superconductivity. While usually considered extrinsic -- arising from proximity to a conventional superconductor -- we investigate when a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-09 Omid Tavakol , Thomas Scaffidi

Two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors host zero-dimensional Majorana bound states at their boundaries. In this work, focusing on rotation-invariant crystalline topological superconductors, we establish a bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Elis Roberts , Jan Behrends , Benjamin Béri

Discovery of the new two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semimetals incorporating both superconductivity and the topological band structure has provided a novel platform for realizing the intriguing applications of Dirac fermions and Majorana…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-19 Ali Ebrahimian , Mehrdad Dadsetani , Reza Asgari

Building on the multiband nature of iron-based superconductors (FeSCs), we have uncovered pronounced anisotropy in Majorana vortex topology arising from the interaction between vortex orientation and multiple electronic topologies. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-31 Si-Qi Yu , Wei Cheng , Chuang Li , Xiao-Hong Pan , Gang Xu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Xin Liu

Braiding Majorana zero modes is essential for fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Iron-based superconductors with nontrivial band topology have recently emerged as a surprisingly promising platform for creating distinct Majorana…