Topological superconductivity in two-dimensional altermagnetic metals

D Zhu, ZY Zhuang, Z Wu, Z Yan - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Bringing magnetic metals into superconducting states represents an important approach for
realizing unconventional superconductors and potentially even topological …

Higher-order topological superconductivity of spin-polarized fermions

J Ahn, BJ Yang - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We study the superconductivity of spin-polarized electrons in centrosymmetric ferromagnetic
metals. Due to the spin polarization and the Fermi statistics of electrons, the …

Majorana corner modes and tunable patterns in an altermagnet heterostructure

YX Li, CC Liu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The mutual competition and synergy of magnetism and superconductivity provide us with a
very valuable opportunity to access topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions …

Tunable Majorana corner states in a two-dimensional second-order topological superconductor induced by magnetic fields

X Zhu - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A two-dimensional second-order topological superconductor exhibits a finite gap in both
bulk and edges, with the nontrivial topology manifesting itself through Majorana zero modes …

Weak-pairing higher order topological superconductors

Y Wang, M Lin, TL Hughes - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Conventional topological superconductors are fully gapped in the bulk but host gapless
Majorana modes on their boundaries. We instead focus on a new class of superconductors …

Topological superconductivity from unconventional band degeneracy with conventional pairing

Z Zhang, Z Wu, C Fang, F Zhang, J Hu, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We present a new scheme for Majorana modes in systems with nonsymmorphic-symmetry-
protected band degeneracy. We reveal that when the gapless fermionic excitations are …

Hierarchy of higher-order topological superconductors in three dimensions

AK Ghosh, T Nag, A Saha - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
After exploring much on two-dimensional higher-order topological superconductors
(HOTSCs) hosting Majorana corner modes (MCMs) only, we propose a simple fermionic …

Lattice-symmetry-assisted second-order topological superconductors and Majorana patterns

XH Pan, KJ Yang, L Chen, G Xu, CX Liu, X Liu - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We propose a realization of the lattice-symmetry-assisted second-order topological
superconductors with corner Majorana zero modes (MZM) based on two-dimensional …

Chiral topological superconductivity arising from the interplay of geometric phase and electron correlation

W Qin, L Li, Z Zhang - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
In modern theory of solids, many-electron correlations can give rise to superconductivity,
while the Berry or geometric phase is responsible for non-trivial topology. So far, these two …

Three-dimensional superconductors with hybrid higher-order topology

N Bultinck, BA Bernevig, MP Zaletel - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We consider three-dimensional superconductors in class DIII with a fourfold rotation axis
and inversion symmetry. It is shown that such systems can exhibit higher-order topology with …