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The topological characteristics of the $p$-wave Kitaev chains on a square lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor inter-chains hopping and pairing are investigated. Besides gapless exact zero-energy modes, this model…

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The edges of time reversal symmetry breaking topological superconductors support chiral Majorana bound states as well as spontaneous charge currents. The Majorana modes are a robust, topological property, but the charge currents are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 Wen Huang , Samuel Lederer , Edward Taylor , Catherine Kallin

Recent experimental breakthrough in magnetic Weyl semimetals have inspired exploration on the novel effects of various magnetic structures in these materials. Here we focus on a domain wall structure which connects two uniform domains with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-07 Zhao Huang , Christopher Lane , Dmitry Yarotski , A. J. Taylor , Jian-Xin Zhu

We theoretically investigate the possibility of obtaining Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in penta-silicene nanoribbons (p-SiNRs) with induced \textit{p}-wave superconductivity. The model explicitly considers an external magnetic field…

Interplay between superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field can lead to realisation of the topologically non--trivial states which in finite one dimensional nanowires are manifested by emergence of a pair of zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Aksel Kobiałka , Tadeusz Domański , Andrzej Ptok

We show that a one dimensional ultra-cold Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions exhibits a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in spite of total number conservation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-09 Jonathan Ruhman , Ehud Altman

We present a comprehensive investigation into the emergence of interface-bound states, particularly Majorana zero modes (MZMs), in a lateral heterostructure composed of two three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs), Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yoonkang Kim

We study two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric nodal superconductors under Zeeman field and clarify the field angle dependence of topological properties. It has been shown that the nodal excitation acquires an excitation gap due to the Zeeman…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-02 Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

Majorana bound states are zero-energy states predicted to emerge in topological superconductors and intense efforts seeking a definitive proof of their observation are still ongoing. A standard route to realize them involves antagonistic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-14 Sebastián A. Díaz , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Silas Hoffman

Topological superconductors are predicted to harbor exotic boundary states - Majorana zero-energy modes - whose non-Abelian braiding statistics present a new paradigm for the realization of topological quantum computing. Using…

We study the edge states for a quantum anomalous Hall system (QAHS) coupled with a spin-singlet s-wave superconductor through the proximity effect, and clarify the topological nature of them. When we consider a superconducting pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-10 Akihiro Ii , Keiji Yada , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka

In the presence of certain symmetries, three-dimensional Dirac semimetals can harbor not only surface Fermi arcs, but also surface Dirac cones. Motivated by the experimental observation of rotation-symmetry-protected Dirac semimetal states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-17 Majid Kheirkhah , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Joseph Maciejko , Zhongbo Yan

We study the superconducting instabilities of a single species of two-dimensional Rashba-Dirac fermions, as it pertains to the surface of a three-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological band insulators. We also discuss the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Luiz Santos , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

We introduce a new type of one-dimensional Kitaev chain with staggered $p$-wave superconducting pairing. We find three physical regimes in this model by tuning the $p$-wave pairing and the chemical potential of the system. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiao-Jue Zhang , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

Through $s-d$ coupling, a superconducting thin film interfaced to a noncollinear magnetic insulator inherits its magnetic order, which may induce unconventional superconductivity that hosts Majorana edge states. From the cycloidal, helical,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-08 Wei Chen , Andreas P. Schnyder

Quantum spin Hall insulators with a pair of helical edge states and proximity-induced superconductivity have been shown to support second-order topological superconductors with Majorana corner modes. As the Majorana corner modes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Yin , Haoshu Li , Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

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

Engineering effective p-wave superconductors hosting Majorana quasiparticles (MQPs) is nowadays of particular interest, also in view of the possible utilization of MQPs in fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. In quasi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Magdalena Marganska , Lars Milz , Wataru Izumida , Christoph Strunk , Milena Grifoni

Vortex lines, known as topological defects, are cable of trapping Majorana modes in superconducting topological materials. Previous studies have primarily focused on topological bands with conventional s-wave pairing. However, topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-02 Zhongyi Zhang , Zixi Fang , Shengshan Qin , Peng Zhang , Hoi Chun Po , Xianxin Wu

Majorana quasi-particles may arise as zero-energy bound states in vortices on the surface of a topological insulator that is proximitized by a conventional superconductor. Such a system finds its natural realization in the iron-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-24 Vedangi Pathak , Stephan Plugge , Marcel Franz