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We show that a one dimensional ultra-cold Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions exhibits a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in spite of total number conservation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-09 Jonathan Ruhman , Ehud Altman

We study the intrinsic fully-gapped odd-parity superconducting order in doped nodal-loop materials with a torus-shaped Fermi surface. We show that the mirror symmetry, which protects the nodal loop in the normal state, also protects the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-21 Hassan Shapourian , Yuxuan Wang , Shinsei Ryu

We propose a class of topological superconductivity in which the pairing order is $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topologically obstructed in a three-dimensional time-reversal invariant system. When two Fermi surfaces are related by time-reversal and mirror…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-17 Canon Sun , Yi Li

The combination of two-dimensional Dirac surface states with s-wave superconductivity is expected to generate localized topological Majorana zero modes in vortex cores. Putative experimental signatures of these modes have been reported for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Björn Sbierski , Max Geier , An-Ping Li , Matthew Brahlek , Robert G. Moore , Joel E. Moore

We investigate the impact of s-wave spin-singlet pairing on antiferromagnetic semimetals with Dirac points or nodal loops at the Fermi level. The electron pairing is generally shown to convert the semimetal into a tunable nodal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-28 Wojciech Brzezicki , Mario Cuoco

A two-dimensional second-order topological superconductor exhibits a finite gap in both bulk and edges, with the nontrivial topology manifesting itself through Majorana zero modes localized at the corners, i.e., Majorana corner states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Xiaoyu Zhu

For two- and three-dimensional topological insulators whose unit cells consist of multiple sublattices, the boundary terminating at which type of sublattice can affect the time-reversal invariant momentum at which the Dirac points of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-28 Di Zhu , Bo-Xuan Li , Zhongbo Yan

Time-reversal invariant topological superconductors are a new state of matter which have a bulk superconducting gap and robust Majorana fermion surface states. These have not yet been realized in solid state systems. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-30 Pavan Hosur , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Xiao-Liang Qi

We introduce two-dimensional topological insulators in proximity to high-temperature cuprate or iron-based superconductors as high-temperature platforms of Majorana Kramers pairs of zero modes. The proximity-induced pairing at the helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Zhongbo Yan , Fei Song , Zhong Wang

The extension of the topological classification of band insulators to topological semimetals gave way to the topology classes of Dirac, Weyl, and nodal line semimetals with their unique Fermi arc and drum head boundary modes. Similarly,…

Dirac semimetals (DSMs), characterized by linear dispersion relations in their electronic band structure, have gained prominence due to their unique topological features and potential applications in electronic devices. Through systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Nikhilesh Singh , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Poorva Singh

Superconductivity in topological band structures is a platform for many novel exotic quantum phenomena such as emergent supersymmetry. This potential nourishes the search for topological materials with intrinsic superconducting…

We provide an argument based on flux insertion to show that certain superconductors with a non-trivial topological invariant have protected zero modes in their vortex cores. This argument has the flavor of a two dimensional index theorem…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Rahul Roy

We present an exactly solvable spin-3/2 model defined on a pentacoordinated three-dimensional graphite lattice, which realizes a novel quantum spin liquid with second-order topology. The exact solutions are described by Majorana fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 Y. X. Zhao , Y. Lu , Shengyuan A. Yang

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

Most superconducting materials are well-understood and conventional in the sense that the pairs of electrons that cause the superconductivity by their condensation have the highest possible symmetry. Famous exceptions are the enigmatic…

We propose and characterize a new $\mathbb{Z}_2$ class of topological semimetals with a vanishing spin--orbit interaction. The proposed topological semimetals are characterized by the presence of bulk one-dimensional (1D) Dirac Line Nodes…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-03 Youngkuk Kim , Benjamin J. Wieder , C. L. Kane , Andrew M. Rappe

Conventional $n$-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) have protected gapless $(n - 1)$-dimensional boundary states. In contrast to this, second-order TSCs are characterized by topologically protected gapless $(n - 2)$-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Franco Nori

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

Three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by the presence of a bandgap in their bulk and gapless Dirac fermions at their surfaces. New physical phenomena originating from the presence of the Dirac fermions are predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-12 B. Sacepe , J. B. Oostinga , J. Li , A. Ubaldini , N. J. G. Couto , E. Giannini , A. F. Morpurgo