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We examine vortices in Abelian Chern-Simons theory coupled to a relativistic scalar field with a chemical potential for particle number or U(1) charge. The Gauss constraint requires chemical potential for the local symmetry to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 S. Prem Kumar , Stanislav Stratiev

We show that a three-dimensional (3D) fully gapped type-II superconductor can feature emergent in-gap Fermi surfaces of Caroli-de Gennes Matricon (CdGM) quasiparticles in the presence of an Abrikosov vortex lattice. In particular, these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-19 Songyang Pu , Jay D. Sau , Rui-Xing Zhang

The discovery of Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs) in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ has sparked significant interest in fractional topological matter without external magnetic fields. Unlike the flat dispersion of Landau levels, moir\'e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Tianhong Lu , Luiz H. Santos

We introduce new three-dimensional topological phases of two-band models using the Pontryagin-Thom construction. In symmetry class A these are the infinitely many Hopf-Chern topological insulators, which are hybrids of layered Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Ricardo Kennedy

Certain types of topological superconductors and superfluids are known to host protected Majorana zero modes in cores of Abrikosov vortices. When such vortices are arranged in a dense periodic lattice one expects zero modes from neighboring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 Tianyu Liu , M. Franz

Vortex solutions in $U(1)\times U(1)$ Chern-Simons theory coupled to a pair of hard-core bosons representing two layers of electrons are analysed. It is shown that there is such a range of parameters $(\alpha\beta<\gamma^{2})$ in which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Jacek Dziarmaga

Many-body interactions in topological quantum systems can give rise to new phases of matter, which simultaneously exhibit both rich spatial features and topological properties. In this work, we consider spinless fermions on a checkerboard…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-10 Sergi Julià-Farré , Markus Müller , Maciej Lewenstein , Alexandre Dauphin

The search for candidate materials for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has mainly focused on the topological and geometrical structures of single-particle Chern bands. However, there are inherent limitations in approaches that neglect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

Band-topology is traditionally analyzed in terms of gauge-invariant observables associated with crystalline Bloch wavefunctions. Recent work has demonstrated that many of the free fermion topological characteristics survive even in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-20 Sunghoon Kim , Adhip Agarwala , Debanjan Chowdhury

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

We consider the Abelian Higgs model in 3+1 dimensions with vortex lines, into which charged fermions are introduced. This could be viewed as a model of a type-II superconductor with unpaired electrons (or holes), analogous to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Shantonu Mukherjee , Amitabha Lahiri

Topological superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which the fully gapped superconducting bulk hosts gapless Majorana surface states protected by topology. Intercalation of copper, strontium or niobium between the quintuple…

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) are exotic phases of matter realized at partial filling of a Chern band that host fractionally charged anyon excitations. Recent numerical studies in several microscopic models reveal that increasing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhengyan Darius Shi , T. Senthil

A type-II superconductor survives in an external magnetic field by admitting an Abrikosov lattice of quantized vortices. This is an imprint of the Aharonov-Bohm effect created by the Abelian U(1) gauge field. The simplest non-Abelian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-01 Predrag Nikolic

In this study, a tight-binding model on square octagon lattice with nearest-neighbour and next-nearest-neighbour hoppings is considered. The system is topologically trivial although it exhibits quadratic band-touching points in its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Arghya Sil , Asim Kumar Ghosh

We investigate the vortex lattice solution in a (2+1)-dimensional holographic model of superconductors constructed from a charged scalar condensate. The solution is obtained perturbatively near the second-order phase transition and is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-27 Kengo Maeda , Makoto Natsuume , Takashi Okamura

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 investigate the phase diagram of spinless fermions on a square lattice with nearest-neighbor interaction, using the recently developed projective truncation approximation in Green's function equation of motion. For attractive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-03 Kou-Han Ma , Ning-Hua Tong

The interactions of anyonic quasi-particles (vortices) in the Chern--Simons extension of the Ginzburg--Landau model is investigated and we show that it manifestly realizes a hybridization of type I/II superconductivity. Through Gauss' law,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Paul Leask

A Lagrangian of a Schr\"{o}dinger type complex scalar field of Cooper pair, a U(1) gauge field of electromagnetism, and a neutral scalar field of acoustic phonon with constant background charge density is proposed for an effective field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-06 Yoonbai Kim , SeungJun Jeon , Hanwool Song