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The superconductor PdTe$_2$ is known to host bulk Dirac bands and topological surface states. The coexistence of superconductivity and topological surface states makes PdTe$_2$ a promising platform for exploring topological…

Isolated flat bands with significantly quenched kinetic energy of electrons could give rise to exotic strongly correlated states from electron-electron interactions. More intriguingly, the interplay between topology and flat bands can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Huaiqiang Wang , Yiliang Fan , Haijun Zhang

A topological insulator is characterized by spin-momentum locking on its boundary. The spin momentum locking on the surface of a three dimensional topological insulator leads to the existence of a non-trivial Berry's phase which leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Su-Yang Xu , L. A. Wray , Y. Xia , R. Shankar , S. Jia , A. Fedorov , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , B. Slomski , J. Osterwalder , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Superconductor proximitized one-dimensional semiconductor nanowires with strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) are at this time the most promising candidates for the realization of topological quantum information processing. In current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Georg W. Winkler , QuanSheng Wu , Matthias Troyer , Peter Krogstrup , Alexey A. Soluyanov

A strategy to enhance d-wave superconducting correlations is proposed based on our numerical study for correlated electron models for high-Tc cuprates. We observe that the pairing is enhanced when the single-electron level around (pi,0) is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Hirokazu Tsunetsugu , Masatoshi Imada

The search for artificial structure with tunable topological properties is an interesting research direction of today's topological physics. Here, we introduce a scheme to realize `topological semimetal states' with a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kaifa Luo , Rui Yu , Hongming Weng

Topological superconductors are gapped superconductors with gapless and topologically robust quasiparticles propagating on the boundary. In this paper, we present a topological field theory description of three-dimensional time-reversal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Edward Witten , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The phase diagram of LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_x$O system has been extensively studied through hole- and electron-doping as well as As/P-substitution. It has been revealed that there are three different superconducting phases with different Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-03 S. Miyasaka , M. Uekubo , H. Tsuji , M. Nakajima , T. Shiota , H. Mukuda , S. Tajima , H. Sagayama , H. Nakao , R. Kumai , Y. Murakami

Topological superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional systems is a novel phase of matter with possible implications for quantum computation. Despite years of effort, a definitive signature of this phase in experiments is still debated. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Omri Lesser , Andrew Saydjari , Marie Wesson , Amir Yacoby , Yuval Oreg

We report on the epitaxial fabrication and electronic properties of a topological phase in strained \alpha-Sn on InSb. The topological surface state forms in the presence of an unusual band order not based on direct spin-orbit coupling, as…

In contrast to conventional Weyl semimetals in achiral crystals, chiral topological semimetals in chiral crystals exhibit Weyl nodes at time-reversal-invariant momenta. A Fermi surface spin texture with parallel spin-momentum locking in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Yingyi Huang

We study time-reversal-invariant topological superconductivity in topological insulator (TI) thin films including both intra- and inter-surface pairing. We find a nontrivial topology for multiple different configurations. For intra-surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-17 Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We systematically studied in-plane optical conductivity of FeSe$_{1-x}$Te$_{x}$ thin films fabricated on CaF$_{2}$ substrates for $x$ = 0, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4. This system shows a large enhancement of superconducting transition temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-04 M. Nakajima , K. Yanase , M. Kawai , D. Asami , T. Ishikawa , F. Nabeshima , Y. Imai , A. Maeda , S. Tajima

Bi-layer Kagome compounds provide an exciting playground where the interplay of topology and strong correlations can give rise to exotic phases of matter. Motivated by recent first principles calculation on such systems (Phys. Rev. Lett…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-29 Aabhaas Vineet Mallik , Adhip Agarwala , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

Superconductors with the A15 structure are prototypical type-II s-wave superconductors which have generated considerable interest in early superconducting material history. However, the topological nature of the electronic structure remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-17 Minsung Kim , Cai-Zhuang Wang , Kai-Ming Ho

Topological superconductors are an intriguing and elusive quantum phase, characterized by topologically protected gapless surface/edge states residing in a bulk superconducting gap, which hosts Majorana fermions. Unfortunately, all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-10 Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Jia-Wei Mei , Zheng Liu , Lih-King Lim , Feng Liu

The search for new topological materials and states of matter is presently at the forefront of quantum materials research. One powerful approach to novel topological phases beyond the thermodynamic space is to combine different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Pavel P. Shibayev , Elio J. König , Maryam Salehi , Jisoo Moon , Myung-Geun Han , Seongshik Oh

In contrast to bulk FeSe, which exhibits nematic order and low temperature superconductivity, atomic layers of FeSe reverse the situation, having high temperature superconductivity appearing alongside a suppression of nematic order. To…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-17 Philipp T. Dumitrescu , Maksym Serbyn , Richard T. Scalettar , Ashvin Vishwanath

Spin-triplet $p$-wave superconductors are promising candidates for topological superconductors. They have been proposed in various heterostructures where a material with strong spin-orbit interaction is coupled to a conventional $s$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-03 Yung-Yeh Chang , Khoe Van Nguyen , Kuang-Lung Chen , Yen-Wen Lu , Chung-Yu Mou , Chung-Hou Chung

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