Colloquium: Majorana fermions in nuclear, particle, and solid-state physics

SR Elliott, M Franz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Abstract Ettore Majorana (1906–1938) disappeared while traveling by ship from Palermo to
Naples in 1938. His fate has never been fully resolved and several articles have been …

Search for Majorana fermions in superconductors

CWJ Beenakker - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2013 - annualreviews.org
Majorana fermions (particles that are their own antiparticle) may or may not exist in nature as
elementary building blocks, but in condensed matter they can be constructed out of electron …

Topological insulator materials

Y Ando - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2013 - journals.jps.jp
Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by
peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave …

The Coexistence of Superconductivity and Topological Order in the Bi2Se3 Thin Films

MX Wang, C Liu, JP Xu, F Yang, L Miao, MY Yao… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) are characterized by their nontrivial surface
states, in which electrons have their spin locked at a right angle to their momentum under …

[HTML][HTML] Topological superconductivity in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

YT Hsu, A Vaezi, MH Fischer, EA Kim - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Theoretically, it has been known that breaking spin degeneracy and effectively realizing
spinless fermions is a promising path to topological superconductors. Yet, topological …

Unconventional Josephson effect in hybrid superconductor-topological insulator devices

JR Williams, AJ Bestwick, P Gallagher, SS Hong, Y Cui… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We report on transport properties of Josephson junctions in hybrid superconducting-
topological insulator devices, which show two striking departures from the common …

Josephson supercurrent through a topological insulator surface state

M Veldhorst, M Snelder, M Hoek, T Gang, VK Guduru… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
The long-sought yet elusive Majorana fermion is predicted to arise from a combination of a
superconductor and a topological insulator,,. An essential step in the hunt for this emergent …

Comprehensive review on topological superconducting materials and interfaces

MM Sharma, P Sharma, NK Karn… - Superconductor …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconductivity in topological materials has drawn significant interest from the scientific
community as these materials provide a hint of the existence of Majorana fermions …

[HTML][HTML] Transport in two-dimensional topological materials: recent developments in experiment and theory

D Culcer, AC Keser, Y Li, G Tkachov - 2D Materials, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We review theoretical and experimental highlights in transport in two-dimensional
topological materials over the last five years. Topological materials comprise topological …

Opportunities in topological insulator devices

O Breunig, Y Ando - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological insulators (TIs) hold promise as a platform for unique quantum phenomena.
However, realizing these phenomena experimentally requires sophisticated devices. In this …