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We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

While electrons moving perpendicular to a magnetic field are confined to cyclotron orbits, they can move freely parallel to the field. This simple fact leads to complex current flow in clean, low carrier density semi-metals, such as…

The chiral $p$-wave superconductor/superfluid in two dimensions (2D) is the simplest and most robust system for topological quantum computation . Candidates for such topological superconductors/superfluids in nature are very rare. A widely…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-27 Xi Luo , Yu-Ge Chen , Ziqiang Wang , Yue Yu

We develop a microscopic analysis of superconducting and dissipative currents in junctions between superconductors with d-wave symmetry of the order parameter. We study the proximity effect in such superconductors and show that for certain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Galaktionov , A. D. Zaikin

We study theoretically the impact of an applied DC-current on a mesoscopic chiral $p$-wave superconductor. Performing quasiclassical calculations on a two-dimensional system, with an external magnetic flux to generate a DC current, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-21 Thibaut Jonckheere , Takeo Kato

We model the newly predicted high-$T_c$ superconducting candidates constructed by corner-shared trigonal bipyramidal complexes with an effective three-orbital tight-banding Hamiltonian and investigate the pairing symmetry of their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-11 Chen Lu , Li-Da Zhang , Xianxin Wu , Fan Yang , Jiangping Hu

We discuss the Josephson effect and the appearance of dissipationless edge currents in a holographic Josephson junction configuration involving a chiral, time-reversal breaking, superconductor in 2+1 dimensions. Such a superconductor is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Moshe Rozali , Alexandre Vincart-Emard

We compute the topological phase diagram of 2D tetragonal superconductors for the only possible nodeless pairing channels compatible with that crystal symmetry. Subject to a Zeeman field and spin-orbit coupling, we demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-24 Santiago Varona , Laura Ortiz , Oscar Viyuela , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

Superconductors with p+ip pairing symmetry are characterized by chiral edge states, but these are difficult to detect in equilibrium since the resulting magnetic field is screened by the Meissner effect. Nonequilibrium detection is hindered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-09 I. Serban , B. Beri , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

The complete scenario of high-Tc superconductivity based on experimental data from electron-tunneling spectroscopy on underdoped, overdoped and Ni-doped Bi2212 single crystals using a break-junction technique is presented. There are two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Mourachkine

Motivated by Sr2RuO4 the magnetic properties of edge states in a two-band spin-triplet superconductor with electron- and hole-like Fermi surfaces are investigated assuming chiral p-wave pairing symmetry. The two bands correspond to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-01 Yoshiki Imai , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Manfred Sigrist

We analyze edge currents and edge bands at the surface of a time-reversal symmetry breaking d_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy} superconductor. We show that the currents have large Friedel oscillations with two interfering frequencies: \sqrt{2}k_F from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernd Braunecker , Patrick A. Lee , Ziqiang Wang

Chiral and helical Majorana edge modes are two archetypal gapless excitations of two-dimensional topological superconductors. They belong to superconductors from two different Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes characterized by $\mathbb{Z}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Haiping Hu , Indubala I. Satija , Erhai Zhao

Chiral superconductors support chiral edge modes and potentially spontaneous edge currents at their boundaries. Motivated by the putative multiband chiral p-wave superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$, we study the influence of the interference…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-07 Jia-Long Zhang , Wen Huang , Manfred Sigrist , Dao-Xin Yao

We study the phase diagram and edge states of a two-dimensional p-wave superconductor with long-range hopping and pairing amplitudes. New topological phases and quasiparticles different from the usual short-range model are obtained. When…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-12 Oscar Viyuela , Liang Fu , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

Quasiparticle interference in a d-wave superconductor with weak disorder produces distinctive peaks in the Fourier-transformed local density of states measured by scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We predict that amplitudes of these peaks…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Pereg-Barnea , M. Franz

We demonstrate nonreciprocal critical current in 65 nm thick polycrystalline and epitaxial Nb thin films patterned into tracks. The nonreciprocal behavior gives a supercurrent diode effect, where the current passed in one direction is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-01 N. Satchell , P. M. Shepley , M. C. Rosamond , G. Burnell

Spontaneous edge currents are known to occur in systems of two space dimensions in a strong magnetic field. The latter creates chirality and determines the direction of the currents. Here we show that an analogous effect occurs in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael J. Gruber , Marianne Leitner

In rare-earth monopnictides like NdBi, the interplay between magnetism and topology results in an extremely unusual topological semimetal phase which simultaneously hosts Weyl points with Fermi arcs as well as massive and massless Dirac…

A novel chiral electron-hole (CEH) pairing mechanism is proposed to account for non-BCS superconductivity. In contrast to BCS Cooper pairs, CEH pairs exhibit a pronounced affinity to antiferromagnetism for superconductivity. The gap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-18 Wanpeng Tan