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 …

Majorana quasiparticles in condensed matter

R Aguado - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2017 - Springer
In the space of less than one decade, the search for Majorana quasiparticles in condensed
matter has become one of the hottest topics in physics. The aim of this review is to provide a …

Joule overheating poisons the fractional ac Josephson effect in topological Josephson junctions

K Le Calvez, L Veyrat, F Gay, P Plaindoux… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Topological Josephson junctions designed on the surface of a 3D-topological insulator
harbor Majorana bound states among a continuum of conventional Andreev bound states …

Fermionized parafermions and symmetry-enriched Majorana modes

A Chew, DF Mross, J Alicea - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Parafermion zero modes are generalizations of Majorana modes that underlie comparatively
rich non-Abelian-anyon properties. We introduce exact map**s that connect parafermion …

parafermions in an interacting quantum spin Hall Josephson junction coupled to an impurity spin

Y Vinkler-Aviv, PW Brouwer, F von Oppen - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Z 4 parafermions can be realized in a strongly interacting quantum spin Hall Josephson
junction or in a spin Hall Josephson junction strongly coupled to an impurity spin. In this …

Fractional spin and Josephson effect in time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors

A Camjayi, L Arrachea, A Aligia, F Von Oppen - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Time-reversal-invariant topological superconducting (TRITOPS) wires are known to host a
fractional spin ℏ/4 at their ends. We investigate how this fractional spin affects the …

Microwave studies of the fractional Josephson effect in HgTe-based Josephson junctions

E Bocquillon, J Wiedenmann, RS Deacon… - … Matter: Lectures from …, 2018 - Springer
The rise of topological phases of matter is strongly connected to their potential to host
Majorana bound states, a powerful ingredient in the search for a robust, topologically …

Fragility of the fractional josephson effect in time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors

C Knapp, A Chew, J Alicea - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor (TRITOPS) wires host Majorana
Kramers pairs that have been predicted to mediate a fractional Josephson effect with 4 π …

Dissipation-enabled fractional Josephson effect

D Sticlet, JD Sau, A Akhmerov - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The anomalous 4 π-periodic ac Josephson effect, a hallmark of topological Josephson
junctions, was experimentally observed in a quantum spin Hall insulator. This finding is …

Theory of topological spin Josephson junctions

PX Shen, S Hoffman, M Trif - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We study the spin transport through a 1D quantum Ising-XY-Ising spin link that emulates a
topological superconducting-normal-superconducting structure via Jordan-Wigner (JW) …