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Superconductors (SCs) with nontrivial topological band structures in the normal state have been discovered recently in bulk materials. When such SCs are made into thin films, quantum tunneling and Cooper pairing take place between the…

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The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is a key nonreciprocal phenomenon with broad relevance for superconducting electronics. Using time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations, we predict and quantify a superconducting diode effect arising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-18 Axel J. M. Deenen , Dirk Grundler

According to the general classification of topological insulators, there exist one-dimensional chirally (sublattice) symmetric systems that can support any number of topological phases. We introduce a zigzag fermion chain with spin-orbit…

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Twisted nodal superconductors have been shown to exhibit chiral topological superconductivity under broken time-reversal symmetry. Here we show how a time-reversal preserving topological superconductivity can be induced in nodal triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-12 Kevin P. Lucht , Pavel A. Volkov , J. H. Pixley

We investigate the robustness of topological superconductors under the perturbing influence of a finite charge current. To this aim, we introduce a modified Kitaev Hamiltonian parametrically dependent on the quasiparticle momentum induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-22 Alfonso Maiellaro , Francesco Romeo , Fabrizio Illuminati , Roberta Citro

In this thesis, we study quantum phase transitions and topological phases in low dimensional fermionic systems. In the first part, we study quantum phase transitions and the nature of currents in one-dimensional systems, using field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-19 Sayonee Ray

We propose a platform based on a fully compensated ferrimagnet (fFIM) for realizing and controlling topological superconductivity with Majorana bound states across multiple dimensions. Through symmetry analysis and microscopic modeling, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Yu-Xuan Li , Yicheng Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

We represent here the full description of all asymptotic regimes of conductivity behavior in the so-called "Geometric Strong Magnetic Field limit" in the 3D single crystal normal metals with topologically complicated Fermi surfaces. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Ya. Maltsev , S. P. Novikov

We develop a topological theory for disordered Weyl semimetals in the framework of gauge invariance of replica formalism and boundary-bulk correspondence of Chern insulators. An anisotropic topological $\theta$-term is analytically derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

Two-dimensional (2D) massless Dirac electrons appear on a surface of three-dimensional topological insulators. The conductivity of such a 2D Dirac electron system is studied for strong topological insulators in the case of the Fermi level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Yositake Takane

While topological superconductors are predicted to provide building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computing, one of the remaining challenges is to find a convenient experimental platform that would allow patterning of circuits. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Jerome T. Mlack , Atikur Rahman , Gopinath Danda , Natalia Drichko , Sarah Friedensen , Marija Drndic , Nina Markovic

Topological metals continue to attract attention as novel gapless states of matter. While there by now exists an exhaustive classification of possible topologically nontrivial metallic states, their observable properties, that follow from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. A. Burkov

Under what conditions does a superconductor inherit topologically protected nodes from its parent normal state? In the context of Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry, the pairing order parameter is classified by monopole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-02 Chiu Fan Bowen Lo , Hoi Chun Po , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Finding a clear signature of topological superconductivity in transport experiments remains an outstanding challenge. In this work, we propose exploiting the unique properties of three-dimensional topological insulator nanowires to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 Fernando de Juan , Roni Ilan , Jens H. Bardarson

Moir\'e systems provide a highly tunable platform for engineering band structures and exotic correlated phases. Here, we theoretically study a model for a single layer of graphene subject to a smooth moir\'e electrostatic potential, induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-30 Jeyong Park , Lasse Gresista , Simon Trebst , Achim Rosch , Jinhong Park

We compute the topological phase diagram of 2D tetragonal superconductors for the only possible nodeless pairing channels compatible with that crystal symmetry. Subject to a Zeeman field and spin-orbit coupling, we demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-24 Santiago Varona , Laura Ortiz , Oscar Viyuela , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

Advances in the next generation of mesoscopic electronics require an understanding of topological phases in inhomogeneous media and the principles that govern them. Motivated by the nature of motifs available in printable conducting inks,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Nirnoy Basak , Ritajit Kundu , Basudeb Mondal , Adhip Agarwala

We examine the role of strong nonlinearity on the topologically-robust edge state in a one-dimensional system. We consider a chain inspired from the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, but with a finite-frequency edge state and the dynamics…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-01-20 Rajesh Chaunsali , Haitao Xu , Jinkyu Yang , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Georgios Theocharis

Employing a quantum Monte Carlo simulation we find a pairing instability in the normal state of the infinite dimensional periodic Anderson model. Superconductivity arises from a normal state in which the screening is protracted and which is…

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