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We investigate chiral superconductivity emerging from parent electronic states with non-uniform Berry curvature, motivated by recent experiments in rhombohedral graphene multilayers. Using the continuum $\lambda_N$-model-a tunable platform…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-22 L. David Le Nir , Asimpunya Mitra , Yong Baek Kim

We investigate in detail the $\nu=+1$ displacement-field-tuned interacting phase diagram of $L=3,4,5,6,7$ layer rhombohedral graphene aligned to hBN (R$L$G/hBN). Our calculations account for the 3D nature of the Coulomb interaction, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-08 Yves H. Kwan , Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Dmitri K. Efetov , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Graphene is at the forefront of condensed matter sciences, because of a variety of interesting phenomena it supports. If graphene could support high Tc superconductivity, after doping for example, it will make it even more valuable. Some…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Sandeep Pathak , Vijay B. Shenoy , G. Baskaran

We derive the expression for the local Hall conductivity for systems that lack translation symmetry and use it to study the local fluctuations of the Hall signal around disordered patches in magnetic insulators. We find that the regime in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zachariah Addison , Nandini Trivedi

We illustrate the possibility of realizing band gaps in graphene-like systems that fall outside the existing classification of gapped Dirac Hamiltonians in terms of masses. As our primary example we consider a band gap arising due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Thomas Iadecola , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon

The anomalous spin Hall conductivity in the holographic model of Dirac semimetals with two Dirac nodes protected by the crystal symmetry has been elaborated. Such system besides the chiral anomaly possesses another anomaly which is related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Bartłomiej Kiczek , Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokiński

Starting with a description of the motivation underlying the analysis presented in this paper and a brief survey of the chiral anomaly, I proceed to review some basic elements of the theory of the quantum Hall effect in 2D incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juerg Froehlich

We study theoretically proximity-induced superconductivity and ferromagnetism on the surface of a topological insulator. In particular, we investigate how the Andreev-bound states are influenced by the interplay between these phenomena,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Asle Sudbø , Naoto Nagaosa

The quantum Hall effect is the seminal example of topological protection, as charge carriers are transmitted through one-dimensional edge channels where backscattering is prohibited. Graphene has made its marks as an exceptional platform to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Nicolas Moreau , Boris Brun , Sowmya Somanchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer , Benoit Hackens

In this study, we examine effective field theories of superconducting phases with topological order, making connection to proposed realizations of exotic topological phases(including those hosting Ising and Fibonacci anyons) in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-14 David J. Clarke , Chetan Nayak

Robustness against disorder and defects is a pivotal advantage of topological systems, manifested by absence of electronic backscattering in the quantum Hall and spin-Hall effects, and unidirectional waveguiding in their classical analogs.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

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

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

The recent measurement of the de Haas-van Alphen effect in the spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 [D. Aoki et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 91, 083704 (2022)] supports cylindrical electron and hole Fermi surfaces, which implies that UTe2 is trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-03 Jushin Tei , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto

We construct time reversal invariant topological superconductors and superfluids in two and three dimensions which are analogous to the recently discovered quantum spin Hall and three-d $Z_2$ topological insulators respectively. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Srinivas Raghu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The intense search for topological superconductivity is inspired by the prospect that it hosts Majorana quasiparticles. We explore in this work the optimal design for producing topological superconductivity by combining a quantum Hall state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Gun Sang Jeon , J. K. Jain , C. -X. Liu

We propose a topological field theory for a spin-less two-dimensional chiral superconductor that contains fundamental Majorana fields. Due to a fermionic gauge symmetry, the Majorana modes survive as dynamical degrees of freedom only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-12 T. H. Hansson , A. Karlhede , Masatoshi Sato

We develop a mean-field theory of the stability of fractional Chern insulators based on the dipole picture of composite fermions (CFs). We construct CFs by binding vortices to Bloch electrons and derive a CF single-particle Hamiltonian that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Xiaodong Hu , Ying Ran , Di Xiao

The recent successful experimental observation of quantum anomalous Hall effect in graphene under laser irradiation demonstrates the feasibility of controlling single particle band structure by lasers. Here we study superconductivity in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-24 Umesh Kumar , Shi-Zeng Lin

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo