Topological insulators and superconductors

XL Qi, SC Zhang - Reviews of modern physics, 2011 - APS
Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which cannot be adiabatically
connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full …

Colloquium: Topological insulators

MZ Hasan, CL Kane - Reviews of modern physics, 2010 - APS
Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary
insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states are …

Signatures of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states in twisted MoTe2

J Cai, E Anderson, C Wang, X Zhang, X Liu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking and topology can result in exotic
quantum states of matter. A celebrated example is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state …

Fractional Chern Insulator in Twisted Bilayer

C Wang, XW Zhang, X Liu, Y He, X Xu, Y Ran, T Cao… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A recent experiment has reported the first observation of a zero-field fractional Chern
insulator (FCI) phase in twisted bilayer MoTe 2 moiré superlattices [J. Cai, Signatures of …

Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics

J Nakamura, S Liang, GC Gardner, MJ Manfra - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Anyons are quasiparticles that, unlike fermions and bosons, show fractional statistics when
two of them are exchanged. Here, we report the experimental observation of anyonic …

New directions in the pursuit of Majorana fermions in solid state systems

J Alicea - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions—whose defining property is that they
are their own anti-particles—has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino …

Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation

C Nayak, SH Simon, A Stern, M Freedman… - Reviews of Modern …, 2008 - APS
Topological quantum computation has emerged as one of the most exciting approaches to
constructing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The proposal relies on the existence of …

Majorana Fermions and a Topological Phase Transition<? format?> in Semiconductor-Superconductor Heterostructures

RM Lutchyn, JD Sau, S Das Sarma - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We propose and analyze theoretically an experimental setup for detecting the elusive
Majorana particle in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. The experimental …

Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation

SD Sarma, M Freedman, C Nayak - npj Quantum Information, 2015 - nature.com
We provide a current perspective on the rapidly develo** field of Majorana zero modes
(MZMs) in solid-state systems. We emphasise the theoretical prediction, experimental …

Non-Abelian statistics and topological quantum information processing in 1D wire networks

J Alicea, Y Oreg, G Refael, F Von Oppen, MPA Fisher - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
The synthesis of a quantum computer remains an ongoing challenge in modern physics.
Whereas decoherence stymies most approaches, topological quantum computation …