Topological superconductors: a review

M Sato, Y Ando - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review elaborates pedagogically on the fundamental concept, basic theory, expected
properties, and materials realizations of topological superconductors. The relation between …

Topological crystalline insulators and topological superconductors: From concepts to materials

Y Ando, L Fu - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2015 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials
beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and …

Chiral superconductivity in heavy-fermion metal UTe2

L Jiao, S Howard, S Ran, Z Wang, JO Rodriguez… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Spin-triplet superconductors are condensates of electron pairs with spin 1 and an odd-parity
wavefunction. An interesting manifestation of triplet pairing is the chiral p-wave state, which …

Scaling of Majorana zero-bias conductance peaks

F Nichele, ACC Drachmann, AM Whiticar… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report an experimental study of the scaling of zero-bias conductance peaks compatible
with Majorana zero modes as a function of magnetic field, tunnel coupling, and temperature …

Controlling many-body states by the electric-field effect in a two-dimensional material

LJ Li, ECT O'farrell, KP Loh, G Eda, B Özyilmaz… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
To understand the complex physics of a system with strong electron–electron interactions,
the ideal is to control and monitor its properties while tuning an external electric field applied …

Majorana fermions and topology in superconductors

M Sato, S Fujimoto - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2016 - journals.jps.jp
Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases,
characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces …

Theory of giant diode effect in -wave superconductor junctions on the surface of a topological insulator

Y Tanaka, B Lu, N Nagaosa - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Nonreciprocal responses of noncentrosymmetric quantum materials attracted recent
intensive interests, which is essential for the rectification function in diodes. A recent …

Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications

I Žutić, J Fabian, SD Sarma - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin
degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this …

Topological Superconductivity in

S Sasaki, M Kriener, K Segawa, K Yada, Y Tanaka… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
A topological superconductor (TSC) is characterized by the topologically protected gapless
surface state that is essentially an Andreev bound state consisting of Majorana fermions …

Majorana nanowires for topological quantum computation

P Marra - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …