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We investigate proximity-induced mixed spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconducting state on the surface states of a topological insulator. Such hybrid structure features fundamentally distinct electron-hole excitations and resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Maryam Khezerlou , Hadi Goudarzi

Hybrid semiconducting nanowire devices combining epitaxial superconductor and ferromagnetic insulator layers have been recently explored experimentally as an alternative platform for topological superconductivity at zero applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Samuel D. Escribano , Elsa Prada , Yuval Oreg , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is an exotic quantum phenomenon originating from dissipation-less chiral channels at the sample edge. While the QAHE has been observed in magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs), exploiting…

Gapless materials in electronic contact with superconductors acquire proximity-induced superconductivity in a region near the interface. Numerous proposals build on this addition of electron pairing to originally non-superconducting systems…

The interplay of the microscopic models and the symmetry considerations in application to the superconducting state of putative chiral superconductor Sr2RuO4 are presented. There is demonstrated that chiral two-band superconducting ordering…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 V. P. Mineev

We theoretically study superconducting proximity effect between a topological insulator (TI) and a high-temperature d-wave superconductor (dSC). When the TI-dSC heterostructure violates 90 degree-rotation and certain reflection symmetries,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-30 Zi-Xiang Li , Cheung Chan , Hong Yao

Chiral $p$-wave superfluids are fascinating topological quantum states of matter that have been found in the liquid $^3$He-A phase and arguably in the electronic Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ superconductor. They are shown fundamentally related to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-03 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Biao Wu , W. Vincent Liu

By breaking the time-reversal-symmetry in three-dimensional topological insulators with introduction of spontaneous magnetization or application of magnetic field, the surface states become gapped, leading to quantum anomalous Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 R. Yoshimi , K. Yasuda , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , N. Nagaosa , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We investigate the bulk topological proximity effect in multilayer hexagonal lattice systems by which one can introduce topological properties into a system composed of multiple trivial layers by tunnel coupling to a single nontrivial layer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Jaromir Panas , Bernhard Irsigler , Jun-Hui Zheng , Walter Hofstetter

Quantum Hall (QH) states are predicted to display an intriguing non-dissipative stress response to a shear deformation rate, a phenomenon variously known as asymmetric or Hall viscosity, or Lorentz shear response. Just as the QH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Rudro R. Biswas

We present a detailed theoretical study of chiral topological superconductor phases in proximity-superconducting graphene systems based on an effective model inspired by DFT simulations. Inducing s-wave superconductivity to quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor systems have received a great deal of attention in the last few years because of their potential for quantum engineering, including novel qubits and topological devices. The proximity effect, the process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 D. Michel Pino , Rubén Seoane-Souto , Maria José Calderón , Ramón Aguado , José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel

The interfaces of quantum Hall insulators with superconductors have emerged as a promising platform to realise interesting physics that may be relevant for topologically protected quantum computing. However, these interfaces can host other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jordan T. McCourt , John Chiles , Chun-Chia Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Tanaguchi , Francois Amet , Gleb Finkelstein

We investigate the proximity effect in a heterostructure of the topological insulator (TI) \BiSe\ deposited on the HTSC material BSCCO. The latter is described by the one-band Hubbard model and is treated with cluster dynamical mean field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-04 Xiancong Lu , David Sénéchal

New two dimensional systems like surface of topological insulator and graphene offer a possibility to experimentally investigate situations considered "exotic" just a decade ago. One of those is the quantum phase transition of the "chiral"…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-27 Dingping Li , Baruch Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro , I. Shapiro

The very special characteristic of the proximity effect in superconductor-ferromagnet systems is the damped oscillatory behavior of the Cooper pair wave function in a ferromagnet. In some sense, this is analogous to the inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Buzdin

The quantum Hall effect, fundamental in modern condensed matter physics, continuously inspires new theories and predicts emergent phases of matter. Here we experimentally demonstrate three types of Chern insulators with synthetic dimensions…

The skin effect, which is unique to non-Hermitian systems, can generate an extensive number of eigenstates localized near the boundary in an open geometry. Here we propose that in 2D and 3D other quantities besides charge density are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Yuhao Ma , Taylor L. Hughes

Heterostructures between topological insulators (TI) and magnetic insulators represent a pathway to realize the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE). Using density functional theory based systematic screening and investigation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-26 Anh Pham , Ling-Jie Zhou , Yi-Fan Zhao , Cui-Zu Chang , Timothy Charlton , P. Ganesh

We have investigated vortex states in chiral helimagnet/superconductor bilayer systems under an applied external magnetic field Happl, using the Ginzburg-Landau equations. Effect of the chiral helimagnet on the superconductor is taken as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-23 Saoto Fukui , Masaru Kato , Yoshihiko Togawa