Superconducting diode effect due to magnetochiral anisotropy in topological insulators and Rashba nanowires

HF Legg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The critical current of a superconductor can depend on the direction of current flow due to
magnetochiral anisotropy when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken, an …

Proximity-induced superconductivity in (Bi1−xSbx)2Te3 topological-insulator nanowires

M Bai, XK Wei, J Feng, M Luysberg… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
When a topological insulator is made into a nanowire, the interplay between topology and
size quantization gives rise to peculiar one-dimensional states whose energy dispersion can …

Metallization and proximity superconductivity in topological insulator nanowires

HF Legg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
A heterostructure consisting of a topological insulator (TI) nanowire brought into proximity
with a superconducting layer provides a promising route to achieve topological …

Low-energy modeling of three-dimensional topological insulator nanostructures

E Zsurka, C Wang, J Legendre, D Di Miceli, L Serra… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We develop an accurate nanoelectronic modeling approach for realistic three-dimensional
topological insulator nanostructures and investigate their low-energy surface-state spectrum …

Robust and fragile Majorana bound states in proximitized topological insulator nanoribbons

D Heffels, D Burke, MR Connolly, P Schüffelgen… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Topological insulator (TI) nanoribbons with proximity-induced superconductivity are a
promising platform for Majorana bound states (MBSs). In this work, we consider a detailed …

Selective-Area Epitaxy of Bulk-Insulating (BixSb1–x)2Te3 Films and Nanowires by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

G Lippertz, O Breunig, R Fister, A Uday… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Selective-area epitaxy (SAE) is a useful technique to grow epitaxial films with a desired
shape on a prepatterned substrate. Although SAE of patterned topological-insulator (TI) thin …

Disorder effects in topological insulator nanowires

Y Huang, BI Shklovskii - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) nanowires with quantized surface subband
spectra are studied as a main component of Majorana bound states (MBS) devices …

Time-dependent driving and topological protection in the fractional Josephson effect

A Kenawy, F Hassler, RP Riwar - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The control of any type of quantum hardware invariably necessitates time-dependent
driving. If the basis depends on the control parameter, the presence of a time-dependent …

Confined vs. extended Dirac surface states in topological crystalline insulator nanowires

RM Skiff, F de Juan, R Queiroz, S Mathimalar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Confining two dimensional Dirac fermions on the surface of topological insulators has
remained an outstanding conceptual challenge. Here we show that Dirac fermion …

Phase-Selective Epitaxy of Trigonal and Orthorhombic Bismuth Thin Films on Si (111)

AR Jalil, X Hou, P Schüffelgen, JH Bae, E Neumann… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the past three decades, the growth of Bi thin films has been extensively explored due to
their potential applications in various fields such as thermoelectrics, ferroelectrics, and …