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Controlling charge-spin current conversion by electric fields is crucial in spintronic devices, which can be realized in diatom ferroelectric semiconductor GeTe where it is established that ferroelectricity can change the spin texture. We…

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A microscopic mechanism for chiral superconductivity from Coulomb repulsion is proposed for spin- and valley-polarized state of rhombohedral multilayer graphene. The superconducting state occurs at low density, has chiral $p$-wave pairing…

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Rhombohedral multilayer graphene at high displacement fields hosts superconductivity emerging from a spin valley polarized quarter metal, with transport signatures suggestive of time reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking and chiral…

The control of unconventional magnetism, which displays ferromagnetism-like properties with compensated magnetization, has drawn intense attention for advancing antiferromagnetic spintronics. Here, through symmetry analysis, we propose a…

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Chiral superconductivity is a striking quantum phenomenon in which an unconventional superconductor spontaneously develops an angular momentum and lowers its free energy by eliminating nodes in the gap. It is a topologically non-trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-20 Catherine Kallin , John Berlinsky

Recently, coexisting ferroelectricity and superconductivity were reported in bilayer T$_{\textrm{d}}$-MoTe$_2$ and twisted bilayer graphene. Importantly, it was observed that an applied displacement field switches the superconductivity with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-05 Yanfang Li , Xin-Zhi Li , Wen-Yu He

We propose a general recipe for chiral topological superconductor (TSC) in two dimensions with multiple $N$ chiral Majorana fermion modes from a quantied anomalous Hall insulator in proximity to an s-wave superconductor with nontrivial band…

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The coexistence of superconductivity and ferroelectricity is rare due to their conflicting requirements: superconductivity relies on free charge carriers, whereas ferroelectricity typically occurs in insulating systems. At LaAlO3/KTaO3…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Meng Zhang , Ming Qin , Yanqiu Sun , Siyuan Hong , Yanwu Xie

Superconductors (SCs) with nontrivial topological band structures in the normal state have been discovered recently in bulk materials. When such SCs are made into thin films, quantum tunneling and Cooper pairing take place between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-19 Xi Luo , Yu-Ge Chen , Ziqiang Wang , Yue Yu

We show that interacting electrons in a flat Chern band can form, in addition to fractional Chern insulators, a chiral $f$-wave topological superconductor that hosts neutral Majorana fermion edge modes. Superconductivity emerges from an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-23 Daniele Guerci , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Liang Fu

Superconducting spintronics in hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet (S-F) heterostructures provides an exciting potential new class of device. The prototypical super-spintronic device is the superconducting spin-valve, where the critical…

Chirality, an inherent property of most objects of the universe, is a dynamic research topic in material science, physics, chemistry, and biology. The fundamental appeal of this extensive study is supported by the technological quest to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Igor Luk'yanchuk , Anna Razumnaya , Svitlana Kondovych , Yurii Tikhonov , Valerii M. Vinokur

In this letter, we propose a mechanism to control the magnetic properties of topological quantum material (TQM) by using magnetoelectric coupling: this mechanism uses a heterostructure of TQM with two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-05 Wei Luo , Mao-Hua Du , Fernando A. Reboredo , Mina Yoon

The recent observation of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ raises intriguing questions concerning the origin and the properties of superconducting states realized in bands with non-trivial topological properties and repulsive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-30 Daniele Guerci , Daniel Kaplan , Julian Ingham , J. H. Pixley , Andrew J. Millis

As one of the simplest systems for realizing Majorana fermions, topological superconductor plays an important role in both condensed matter physics and quantum computations. Based on \emph{ab~initio} calculations and the analysis of an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-06 Gang Xu , Biao Lian , Peizhe Tang , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Ferroelectric control of two-dimensional magnetism is promising in fabricating electronic devices with high speed and low energy consumption. The newly discovered layered MnBi$_2$Te$_4$(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_n$ and their Sb counterparts exhibit…

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Van der Waals materials like NbSe$_2$ or TaS$_2$ have demonstrated Ising superconductivity down to atomically thin layers. Due to the spin-orbit coupling, these superconductors have the in-plane upper critical magnetic field far beyond the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-05 Xiaodong Hu , Ying Ran

The integration of ferroelectric and topological materials offers a promising avenue for advancing the development of quantum material devices. In this work, we explore the strong coupling between topological states and ferroelectricity in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Jiaheng Li , Quansheng Wu , Hongming Weng

We propose to realize a two-dimensional chiral topological superconducting (TSC) state from the quantum anomalous Hall plateau transition in a magnetic topological insulator thin film through the proximity effect to a conventional $s$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Jing Wang , Quan Zhou , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The switching of electric polarization induced by electric fields -a fundamental functionality of ferroelectrics- is closely associated with the motions of the domain walls that separate regions with distinct polarization directions.…

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