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Most of our current knowledge on condensed matters contains a default assumption: the matters are neutral charged. On the other hand, the two-dimension(2D) vortex-Coulomb gas charge analogy is a very successful theoretical tool in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Ting-Ting Kang

The Majorana fermions propagating along the edge of a topological superconductor with $p_x+ip_y$ pairing deliver a shot noise power of $\frac{1}{2}\times e^2/h$ per eV of voltage bias. We calculate the full counting statistics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 N. V. Gnezdilov , B. van Heck , M. Diez , Jimmy A. Hutasoit , C. W. J. Beenakker

Topological phases of matter lie at the heart of physics, connecting elegant mathematical principles to real materials that are believed to shape future electronic and quantum computing technologies. To date, studies in this discipline have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Bin Jiang , Adrien Bouhon , Zhi-Kang Lin , Xiaoxi Zhou , Bo Hou , Feng Li , Robert-Jan Slager , Jian-Hua Jiang

Electron fractionalization is intimately related to topology. In one-dimensional systems, fractionally charged states exist at domain walls between degenerate vacua. In two-dimensional systems, fractionalization exists in quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chang-Yu Hou , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

Topological or deconfined phases of matter exhibit emergent gauge fields and quasiparticles that carry a corresponding gauge charge. In systems with an intrinsic conserved U(1) charge, such as all electronic systems where the Coulombic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Moessner , S. L. Sondhi

We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of a two dimensional square lattice loaded by spinless fermions, with nearest neighbor hopping and algebraically decaying pairing. We find that for sufficiently long-range pairing, new phases, not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 L. Lepori , D. Giuliano , S. Paganelli

There are large isotope effects in the phonon kinks observed in photoemission spectra (ARPES) of optimally doped cuprate high temperature superconductors (HTSC), but they are quite different (Gweon et al. 2004) from those expected for a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. Phillips

We investigate charge transport of pn and npn junctions made from silicene, Si analogue of graphene. The conductance shows the distinct gate-voltage dependences peculiar to the topological and non-topological phases, where the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 Ai Yamakage , Motohiko Ezawa , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

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

Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ near two-degree twists has emerged as a platform for exotic correlated topological phases, including ferromagnetism and a non-Abelian fractional spin Hall insulator. Here we reveal the unexpected emergence of an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Cheong-Eung Ahn , Donghae Seo , Gyeoul Lee , Youngwook Kim , Gil Young Cho

Superconductors with an odd number of bands crossing the Fermi energy have topologically protected Andreev states at interfaces, including Majorana states in one dimensional geometries. Superconductivity, a low number of 1D channels, large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 J. G. Rodrigo , V. Crespo , H. Suderow , S. Vieira , F. Guinea

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

Searching for topological insulators/superconductors is a central subject in recent condensed matter physics. As a theoretical aspect, various classification methods of symmetry-protected topological phases have been developed, where the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Shuntaro Sumita , Youichi Yanase

The formation of electron pairs is a prerequisite of superconductivity. The fermionic nature of electrons yields four classes of superconducting correlations with definite symmetry in spin, space and time. Here, we suggest double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Björn Sothmann , Stephan Weiss , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

At partial filling of a flat band, strong electronic interactions may favor gapped states harboring emergent topology with quantized Hall conductivity. Emergent topological states have been found in partially filled Landau levels and…

Unlike the hole-doped cuprates, both nodal and nodeless superconductivity (SC) are observed in the electron-doped cuprates. To understand these two types of SC states, we propose a unified theory by considering the two-dimensional t-J model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-26 Guo-Yi Zhu , Guang-Ming Zhang

We investigate the robustness of topological superconductors under the perturbing influence of a finite charge current. To this aim, we introduce a modified Kitaev Hamiltonian parametrically dependent on the quasiparticle momentum induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-22 Alfonso Maiellaro , Francesco Romeo , Fabrizio Illuminati , Roberta Citro

Topological nodal superconductors are generally realized based on unconventional pairings. In this work, we propose a minimal model to realize these topological nodal phases with only $s$-wave interaction. In our model the linear and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Beibing Huang , Xiaosen Yang , Ning Xu , Ming Gong

We present a new scheme for Majorana modes in systems with nonsymmporhic-symmetry-protected band degeneracy. We reveal that when the gapless fermionic excitations are encoded with conventional superconductivity and magnetism, which can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhongyi Zhang , Zhenfei Wu , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Shengshan Qin

Superconductivity originates from the formation of bound (Cooper) pairs of electrons that can move through the lattice without resistance below the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$. Electron Cooper pairs in most superconductors…