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Materials with non-trivial topology in their electronic structures enforce the existence of helical Dirac fermionic surface states. We discovered emergent topological phases in the stacked structures of topological insulator and band…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-15 Jeongwoo Kim , Jinwoong Kim , Ki-Seok Kim , Seung-Hoon Jhi

Topological superconductors, characterized by topologically nontrivial states residing in a superconducting gap, are a recently discovered class of materials having Majorana Fermions. The interplay of superconductivity and topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-12 Peng-Fei Liu , Jingyu Li , Xin-Hai Tu , Huabing Yin , Baisheng Sa , Junrong Zhang , David J. Singh , Bao-Tian Wang

The coupled-wires approach has been shown to be useful in describing two-dimensional strongly interacting topological phases. In this manuscript we extend this approach to three-dimensions, and construct a model for a fractional strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Eran Sagi , Yuval Oreg

We show that topological superconductivity may emerge upon doping of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers above an integer-filling magnetic state of the topmost valence moir\'e band. The effective attraction between charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-18 Valentin Crépel , Daniele Guerci , Jennifer Cano , J. H. Pixley , Andrew Millis

The existence of topological superconductors preserving time-reversal symmetry was recently predicted, and they are expected to provide a solid-state realization of itinerant massless Majorana fermions and a route to topological quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-04 Satoshi Sasaki , Zhi Ren , A. A. Taskin , Kouji Segawa , Liang Fu , Yoichi Ando

We demonstrate that topological constraints do not only dictate the geometric part of the superfluid stiffness, but can also govern the total superfluid stiffness. By introducing a general adiabatic approach for superfluid responses, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-14 Jun-Ang Wang , Mohamed Assili , Panagiotis Kotetes

We study the topological properties of superconductors with paired $j=\frac{3}{2}$ quasiparticles. Higher spin Fermi surfaces can arise, for instance, in strongly spin-orbit coupled band-inverted semimetals. Examples include the Bi-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-07 Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Lucile Savary , Jonathan Ruhman , Patrick A. Lee , Liang Fu

We study the phase transition between a trivial and a time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor in a single-band system. By analyzing the interplay of symmetry, topology and energetics, we show that for a generic normal state band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-08 Yuxuan Wang , Liang Fu

Two-dimensional superconductors with time-reversal symmetry have a Z_2 topological invariant, that distinguishes phases with and without helical Majorana edge states. We study the topological phase transition in a class-DIII network model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 I. C. Fulga , A. R. Akhmerov , J. Tworzydło , B. Béri , C. W. J. Beenakker

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

The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in the heavy-fermion material UTe$_2$ has reinvigorated research of spin-triplet superconductivity. We perform a theoretical study of coupled two-component spin-triplet superconducting order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-23 Henrik S. Røising , Max Geier , Andreas Kreisel , Brian M. Andersen

Recent discovery of superconductivity in CeRh$_2$As$_2$ clarified an unusual $H$-$T$ phase diagram with two superconducting phases [Khim et al. arXiv:2101.09522]. The experimental observation has been interpreted based on the even-odd…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-29 Kosuke Nogaki , Akito Daido , Jun Ishizuka , Youichi Yanase

We investigate the phase diagram of a three-dimensional, time-reversal symmetric topological superconductor in the presence of charge impurities and random $s$-wave pairing. Combining complimentary field theoretic and numerical methods, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-02 Bitan Roy , Yahya Alavirad , Jay D. Sau

Majorana boundary quasiparticles may naturally emerge in a spin-singlet superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit interactions, when a Zeeman magnetic field breaks time-reversal symmetry. Their existence and robustness against adiabatic changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 C. Dutreix

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Jing Wang

We find that singlet superconducting pairing can lead to Majorana fermions in three dimensional Dirac superconductors (3DDS) if the pairing order parameter is a pseudo-scalar, i.e. it changes sign under mirror reflection. The pseudo-scalar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-21 Morteza Salehi , S. A. Jafari

Higher-order topological superconductors and superfluids host lower-dimensional Majorana corner and hinge states since novel topology exhibitions on boundaries. While such topological nontrivial phases have been explored extensively, more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Ya-Jie Wu , Wei Tu , Ning Li

Two-dimensional topological superconductor (TSC) represents an exotic quantum material with quasiparticle excitation manifesting in dispersive Majorana mode (DMM) at the boundaries. A domain-wall DMM can arise at the boundary between two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-26 Xiaoming Zhang , Pei Zhao , Feng Liu

We propose a planar Josephson junction setup to host Majorana modes where the semiconductor is sandwiched between superconductors on both surfaces. While the studied configuration is related to both devices proposed for use with topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-05 Huan-Kuang Wu , Jay Sau

We study the superconducting instabilities of a single species of two-dimensional Rashba-Dirac fermions, as it pertains to the surface of a three-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological band insulators. We also discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Luiz Santos , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry