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Floquet engineering, the concept of tailoring a system by a periodic drive, is increasingly exploited to design and manipulate topological phases of matter. In this work, we study periodically driven higher-order topological Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Jin-Hua Sun , Ting-Yong Chen , Dong-Hui Xu

Topological superconductivity hosts protected quasiparticles and is central to topological quantum computation, yet its realization in intrinsic materials remains challenging and often relies on engineered platforms. Here we uncover a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiao Xiao , Arun Bansil

We show that Floquet chiral topological superconductivity arises naturally in Josephson junctions made of magnetic topological insulator-superconductor sandwich structures. The Josephson phase modulation associated with an applied bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rui-Xing Zhang , S. Das Sarma

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

We investigate the superconductivity of two-dimensional spin-1/2 Fermi systems with $d$-wave altermagnetism under external magnetic field near zero temperature. At large altermagnetic coupling without magnetic field, we show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Hui Hu , Zhao Liu , Xia-Ji Liu

In this paper, we propose a way to realize topological $s$-wave superconductivity with application of circularly polarized laser light in two-dimensional bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Using Floquet theory, we analyze a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Hiroomi Chono , Kazuaki Takasan , Youichi Yanase

A recently emerging concept for quantum phase discovery is the controlled gapping of linear band crossings in topological semimetals. For example, achieving topological superconducting and charge-density-wave (CDW) gapping could introduce…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-30 Bing Cheng , Di Cheng , Tao Jiang , Wei Xia , Boqun Song , Martin Mootz , Liang Luo , Ilias E. Perakis , Yongxin Yao , Yanfeng Guo , Jigang Wang

Recent studies have attracted increasing interest in nonrelativistic odd-parity magnetism and its associated topology in collinear altermagnets. Here, based on symmetry analysis and an effective model, we demonstrate that Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yuping Tian , Chen-Hao Zhao , Chao-Bo Wang , Binyuan Zhang , Xiangru Kong , Wei-Jiang Gong

Topological phases of matter is an exotic phenomena in modern condense matter physics, which has attracted much attention due to the unique boundary states and transport properties. Recently, this topological concept in electronic materials…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Zheng-Yuan Xue , Yong Hu

Higher-order topological materials with topologically protected states at the boundaries of their boundaries (hinges or corners) have attracted attention in recent years. In this paper, we utilize time-periodic driving to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Raditya Weda Bomantara

Altermagnets emerge as a novel platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity through their exotic momentum-dependent spin-splitting of electronic band structures. Recent experiments have uncovered a novel form of altermagnetism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-27 Tilen Cadez , Abraham Nathan Sunanta , Kyoung-Min Kim

Floquet engineering is a powerful technique using periodic potentials, typically laser light, to drive materials into regimes inaccessible in equilibrium. Here, we show that Kondo models can be driven to multi-channel degenerate points,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-23 Victor L. Quito , Rebecca Flint

We have conducted a theoretical investigation of the topological phenomena associated with chiral superconducting pairing states induced in a doped Kane-Mele model on a honeycomb lattice. Through numerical analysis, we have obtained exotic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-30 Junkang Huang , Tao Zhou , Z. D. Wang

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

In this work we will explore the properties of superconducting surfaces decorated by two-dimensional ferromagnetic adatom lattices. As discovered recently [R\"ontynen and Ojanen, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{114}, 236803 (2015)], in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Joel Röntynen , Teemu Ojanen

Current studies of non-reciprocal superconducting (SC) transport have centered on the forward-backward asymmetry of the critical current measured along a single axis. In most realizations, this diode effect is achieved via introducing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-05 F. Yang , L. Q. Chen

Recently the creation of novel topological states of matter by a periodic driving field has attracted great attention. To motivate further experimental and theoretical studies, we investigate interesting aspects of Floquet bands and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Longwen Zhou , Hailong Wang , Derek Y. H. Ho , Jiangbin Gong

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

Chiral superconductors, a unique class of unconventional superconductors in which the complex superconducting order parameter winds clockwise or counter-clockwise in the momentum space, represent a topologically non-trivial system with…

We demonstrate that checkerboard magnet-superconductor hybrid systems possess a rich phase diagram exhibiting both strong topological superconducting (STSC) and topological nodal point superconducting (TNPSC) phases. We show that TNPSC…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-30 Tuan Kieu , Eric Mascot , Jasmin Bedow , Roland Wiesendanger , Dirk K. Morr