Fractional topological superconductivity and parafermion corner states

K Laubscher, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
We consider a system of weakly coupled Rashba nanowires in the strong spin-orbit
interaction (SOI) regime. The nanowires are arranged into two tunnel-coupled layers …

Parafermion in the Double Charge Kondo Model

DB Karki, E Boulat, W Pouse, D Goldhaber-Gordon… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Quantum impurity models with frustrated Kondo interactions can support quantum critical
points with fractionalized excitations. Recent experiments [W. Pouse, Nat. Phys.(2023) …

parafermions in Weakly Interacting Superconducting Constrictions at the Helical Edge of Quantum Spin Hall Insulators

C Fleckenstein, NT Ziani, B Trauzettel - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Parafermions are generalizations of Majorana fermions that may appear in interacting
topological systems. They are known to be powerful building blocks of topological quantum …

Two-fluid coexistence and phase separation in a one-dimensional model with pair hop** and density interactions

L Gotta, L Mazza, P Simon, G Roux - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We compute the phase diagram of a one-dimensional model of spinless fermions with pair
hop** and nearest-neighbor interaction, first introduced by Ruhman and Altman, using the …

parafermions in one-dimensional fermionic lattices

A Calzona, T Meng, M Sassetti, TL Schmidt - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Parafermions are emergent excitations which generalize Majorana fermions and are
potentially relevant to topological quantum computation. Using the concept of Fock …

Readout of parafermionic states by transport measurements

IE Nielsen, K Flensberg, R Egger, M Burrello - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility of inducing superconducting pairing
into counterpropagating fractional quantum Hall edge modes. This paves the way for the …

Pretopological fractional excitations in the two-leg flux ladder

M Calvanese Strinati, S Sahoo, K Shtengel, E Sela - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Topological order, the hallmark of fractional quantum Hall states, is primarily defined in
terms of ground-state degeneracy on higher-genus manifolds, eg, the torus. We investigate …

Anyonic tight-binding models of parafermions and of fractionalized fermions

D Rossini, M Carrega, M Calvanese Strinati, L Mazza - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Parafermions are emergent quasiparticles which generalize Majorana fermions and
possess intriguing anyonic properties. The theoretical investigation of effective models …

Parafermions in a multilegged geometry: Towards a scalable parafermionic network

U Khanna, M Goldstein, Y Gefen - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Parafermionic zero modes are non-Abelian excitations which have been predicted to
emerge at the boundary of topological phases of matter. Contrary to earlier proposals, here …

Overlap of parafermionic zero modes at a finite distance

RLRC Teixeira, A Haller, R Singh, A Mathew… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Parafermion bound states (PBSs) are generalizations of Majorana bound states (MBSs) and
have been predicted to exist as zero-energy eigenstates in proximitized fractional quantum …