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We study superconductivitiy under light irradiation based on the Floquet-Magnus expansion in the high-frequency regime. We find that, in spin-singlet superconductors with spin-orbit coupling, triplet superconductivity can be induced in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-13 Takehito Yokoyama

We propose and model Floquet topological polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, using the interference of frequency detuned coherent fields to provide a time periodic potential. For arbitrarily weak field strength, where the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Rongchun Ge , Wijnand Broer , Timothy C. H. Liew

We find a mixed chirality $d$-wave superconducting state in the coexistence region between antiferromagnetism and interaction-driven superconductivity in lightly doped honeycomb materials. This state has a topological chiral $d+id$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Black-Schaffer , K. Le Hur

The field of topological photonics studies unique and robust photonic systems that are immune to defects and disorders due to the protection of their underlying topological phases. Mostly implemented in static systems, the studied…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-20 Jicheng Jin , Li He , Jian Lu , Lin Chang , Chen Shang , John E. Bowers , Eugene J. Mele , Bo Zhen

Altermagnet-superconductor heterostructures have been shown, in principle, to provide a route towards realising topological superconductivity, and therefore host topologically protected boundary states. In this work we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 George McArdle , Brian Kiraly , Peter Wadley , Adam Gammon-Smith

Magnet-superconductor hybrid heterostructures constitute a promising candidate system for the quantum engineering of chiral topological superconductivity. Here, we investigate the stability of their topological phases in the presence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-11 Eric Mascot , Chaitra Agrahar , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

The recently predicted unconventional magnets offer a new ground for exploring the formation of nontrivial spin states due to their inherent nonrelativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting. In this work, we consider unconventional magnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Pei-Hao Fu , Sayan Mondal , Jun-Feng Liu , Jorge Cayao

In this work, we introduce a new class of chiral altermagnetic magnetoelectrics in structurally chiral, nonpolar altermagnetic systems and identify the experimentally well-characterized three-dimensional metal-organic framework…

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…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Max Geier , Margarita Davydova , Liang Fu

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

The ground state of large Hubbard $U$ limit of a honeycomb lattice near half-filling is known to be a singlet $d+id$-wave superconductor. It is also known that this $d+id$ superconductor exhibits a chiral $p+ip$ pairing locally at the Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-24 Shin-Ming Huang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Chung-Hou Chung , Chung-Yu Mou

The possibility of attaining chiral edge modes under periodic driving has spurred tremendous attention, both theoretically and experimentally, especially in light of anomalous Floquet topological phases that feature vanishing Chern numbers…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-04 Miguel F. Martínez , F. Nur Ünal

Achieving topologically-protected robust transport in optical systems has recently been of great interest. Most topological photonic structures can be understood by solving the eigenvalue problem of Maxwell's equations for a static linear…

Topological materials are fertile ground for investigating topological phases of matter and topological phase transitions. In particular, the quest for novel topological phases in 2D materials is attracting fast growing attention. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Xiangru Kong , Linyang Li , Liangbo Liang , Francois M. Peeters , Xiong-Jun Liu

The interplay between unconventional superconductivity and altermagnetic order has attracted much attentions. In particular, whether spin-triplet superconductivity can be achieved by suppressing altermagnetism remains an open issue. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-15 Xin Ma , Siqi Wu , Zilong Li , Lunhui Hu , Jianhui Dai , Chao Cao

Motivated by the emerging control of Berry-curvature textures in altermagnets, we explore a two-terminal configuration where a topological-insulator film is interfaced with two altermagnetic electrodes whose crystalline phases can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Carlos Caro , Francisco Gamez

Finding concrete realizations for topologically nontrivial chiral superconductivity has been a long-standing goal in quantum matter research. Here we propose a route to a systematic realization of chiral superconductivity with nonzero Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen

Recent theoretical work highlighted unique properties of superconducting altermagnets, including the wealth of topologically non-trivial phases as well as their potential uses in spintronic applications. Given that no intrinsically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Niclas Heinsdorf , Marcel Franz

Topological superconductors (TSCs) in superconducting hybrid heterostructures, which integrate superconducting and non-superconducting materials, have been intensely investigated with the hope of discovering exotic non-Abelian anyons for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-14 Joseph J. Cuozzo , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Dale Huber , Wei Pan , François Léonard

We investigate the physical mechanisms for achieving an electrical control of conventional spin-singlet superconductivity in thin films by focusing on the role of surface orbital polarization. Assuming a multi-orbital description of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-18 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco