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Topological nodal superconductors (SCs) have attracted considerable interest due to their gapless bulk excitations and exotic surface states. In this paper, by establishing a general framework of the effective theory for multi-orbital SCs,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Dao-He Ma , Jin An

From our general index theorem that characterises faithfully the boundary-bulk correspondence of topological superconductors and insulators, we reveal rigorously that four topologically distinct types of Majorana zero-modes can emerge at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-30 Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

Formation and evolution of topological defects in course of non-equilibrium symmetry breaking phase transitions is of wide interest in many areas of physics, from cosmology through condensed matter to low temperature physics. Its study in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Hua-Bi Zeng , Chuan-Yin Xia , Hai-Qing Zhang

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 consider a system consisting of a 2D network of links between Majorana fermions on superconducting islands. We show that the fermionic Hamiltonian modeling this system is topologically-ordered in a region of parameter space. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 Barbara M. Terhal , Fabian Hassler , David P. DiVincenzo

Topological superconductivity has been sought for in a variety of heterostructure systems, the interest being that a material displaying such a phenomenon could prove to be the ideal platform to support Majorana fermions, which in turn…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-22 N. Zaki , G. Gu , A. M. Tsvelik , C. Wu , P. D. Johnson

We discover novel topological effects in the one-dimensional Kitaev chain modified by long-range Hamiltonian deformations in the hopping and pairing terms. This class of models display symmetry-protected topological order measured by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 O. Viyuela , D. Vodola , G. Pupillo , M. A. Martin-Delgado

This paper presents a method for achieving equilibrium in the ISING Hamiltonian when confronted with unevenly distributed charges on an irregular grid. Employing (Multi-Edge) QC-LDPC codes and the Boltzmann machine, our approach involves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Vasiliy Usatyuk , Denis Sapozhnikov , Sergey Egorov

There have been several proposals for platforms sustaining topological superconductivity in high temperature superconductors, in order to make use of the larger superconducting gap and the expected robustness of Majorana zero modes towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-29 Mainak Pal , Andreas Kreisel , P. J. Hirschfeld

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems are promising candidates for the realization Majorana fermions and topological order, i.e. topologically protected degeneracies, in solid state devices. We show that the topological order is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Björn Zocher , Mats Horsdal , Bernd Rosenow

After exploring much on two-dimensional higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSCs) hosting Majorana corner modes (MCMs) only, we propose a simple fermionic model based on a three-dimensional topological insulator proximized with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

We investigate the anomalous flux state of interacting higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSC) protected by rotation symmetries. By introducing a $\pi$ superconducting flux in 2D HOTSC, we demonstrate the existence of a robust zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-13 Yizhi You

An interplay between pairing and topological orders has been predicted to give rise to superconducting states supporting exotic emergent particles, such as Majorana particles obeying non-Abelian braid statistics. We consider a system of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonathan Schirmer , C. -X. Liu , J. K. Jain

The non-Abelian topological order for superconductors is characterized by the existence of zero-energy Majorana fermions in edges of systems and in a vortex of a macroscopic condensate, which obey the non-Abelian statistics. This paper is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-13 Masatoshi Sato , Yoshiro Takahashi , Satoshi Fujimoto

Topological superconductivity supports exotic Majorana bound states (MBS) which are chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. With their non-Abelian exchange statistics and fractionalization of a single electron stored nonlocally as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , William Mayer , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

We present a scheme for universal topological quantum computation based on Clifford complete braiding and fusion of symmetry defects in the 3-Fermion anyon theory, supplemented with magic state injection. We formulate a fault-tolerant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Sam Roberts , Dominic J. Williamson

We propose a general theoretical framework for both constructing and diagnosing inversion-protected higher-order topological superconductors using Kitaev building blocks, a higher-dimensional generalization of Kitaev's one-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-26 Rui-Xing Zhang , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

A hallmark of topological superconductivity is the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS), its chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. The resulting fractionalization of a single electron, stored nonlocally as a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Kasra Sardashti , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

Higher-order topological superconductors host Majorana zero modes localized at corners or hinges, providing a promising route toward scalable and controllable Majorana networks without vortices or magnetic flux. Here we propose a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-06 Yongting Shi , Qing Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang , Ning Hao

We analyze the topological properties of a chiral ${p}+i{p}$ superconductor for a two-dimensional metal/semimetal with four Dirac points. Such a system has been proposed to realize second-order topological superconductivity and host corner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Apoorv Tiwari , Ammar Jahin , Yuxuan Wang