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We show that a two-dimensional semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling could be driven into the second-order topological superconducting phase when a mixed-pairing state is introduced. The superconducting order we consider involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiaoyu Zhu

Parafermionic zero modes are a novel set of excitations displaying non-Abelian statistics somewhat richer than that of Majorana modes. These modes are predicted to occur when nearby fractional quantum Hall edge states are gapped by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Yahya Alavirad , David Clarke , Amit Nag , Jay D. Sau

We study one-dimensional topological superconductivity in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. This phase is characterized by having a bulk gap, while supporting a Kramers' pair of zero-energy Majorana bound states at each of its ends.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Arbel Haim , Konrad Wölms , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg , Karsten Flensberg

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

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

Zigzag nanoribbons hosting the Haldane Chern insulator model are considered. In this context, a reentrant topological phase, characterized by the emergence of quasi zero dimensional in-gap states, is discussed. The bound states, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Simone Traverso , Maura Sassetti , Niccolò Traverso Ziani

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

The edge states of two-dimensional time-reversal topological insulators support a perfect helical conductance on wide ribbons due to the absence of backscattering. Here, we study the changes in the transport properties of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 R. P. Maciel , A. L. Araújo , C. H. Lewenkopf , G. J. Ferreira

A wide variety of higher-order symmetry protected topological phase(HOSPT) with gapless corners or hinges had been proposed as a descendant of topological crystalline insulator protected by spatial symmetry. In this work, we address a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Yizhi You

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

We investigate one-dimensional (1D) Majorana bound states (MBSs) realized in terms of the helical edge states of a 2D quantum spin-Hall insulator (QSHI) in a heterostructure with a superconducting substrate and two ferromagnetic insulators…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Takuto Kawakami , Xiao Hu

Large Hubbard U limit of the Kane-Mele model on a zigzag ribbon of honeycomb lattice near half-filling is studied via a renormalized mean-field theory. The ground state exhibits time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking d + i d'-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-09 Shih-Jye Sun , Chung-Hou Chung , Yung-Yeh Chang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Fu-Chun Zhang

The standard boundary state of a topological insulator in 3+1 dimensions has gapless charged fermions. We present model systems that reproduce this standard gapless boundary state in one phase, but also have gapped phases with topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-06 Nathan Seiberg , Edward Witten

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

Parafermions are the simplest generalizations of Majorana fermions that realize topological order. We propose a less restrictive notion of topological order in 1D open chains, which generalizes the seminal work by Fendley [J. Stat. Mech.,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-07 A. Alexandradinata , N. Regnault , Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

We study the spin edge states in the quantum spin-Hall (QSH) effect on a single-atomic layer graphene ribbon system with both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. The Harper equation for solving the energies of the spin edge states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Zhigang Wang , Ningning Hao , Ping Zhang

Altermagnets are time-reversal broken antiferromagnets, where the $z$ component of the N\'{e}el vector is detectable by anomalous Hall effects. On the other hand, recently proposed $p$-wave magnets are time-reversal preserved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Motohiko Ezawa

We employed the self-consistent method on a two-orbital type-II time-reversal-symmetric Weyl semimetal, revealing a hybrid pairing of singlet $s$-wave and triplet $p$-wave. We present a detailed analysis of the normal-state electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-02 Junkang Huang , Z. D. Wang , Tao Zhou

We investigate the finite size effects of a three-dimensional second-order topological insulator with fourfold rotational symmetry and time-reversal symmetry. Starting from the effective Hamiltonian of the three-dimensional second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Penglei Wang , Yong-Lian Zou , Juntao Song