Classification of topological quantum matter with symmetries

CK Chiu, JCY Teo, AP Schnyder, S Ryu - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they
exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices …

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 …

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 …

Topological defects and gapless modes in insulators and superconductors

JCY Teo, CL Kane - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
We develop a unified framework to classify topological defects in insulators and
superconductors described by spatially modulated Bloch and Bogoliubov de Gennes …

Symmetry and topology in superconductors–odd-frequency pairing and edge states–

Y Tanaka, M Sato, N Nagaosa - Journal of the Physical Society of …, 2011 - journals.jps.jp
Superconductivity is a phenomenon where the macroscopic quantum coherence appears
due to the pairing of electrons. This offers a fascinating arena to study the physics of …

Topology of Andreev bound states with flat dispersion

M Sato, Y Tanaka, K Yada, T Yokoyama - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2011 - APS
Theory of dispersionless Andreev bound states on surfaces of time-reversal-invariant
unconventional superconductors is presented. The generalized criterion for the …

Gapped boundary phases of topological insulators via weak coupling

N Seiberg, E Witten - Progress of Theoretical and Experimental …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The standard boundary state of a topological insulator in 3+ 1 dimensions has gapless
charged fermions. We present model systems that reproduce this standard gapless …

Vortices and other topological solitons in dense quark matter

M Eto, Y Hirono, M Nitta, S Yasui - Progress of Theoretical and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Dense quantum chromodynamic matter accommodates various kind of topological solitons
such as vortices, domain walls, monopoles, kinks, boojums, and so on. In this review, we …

Tunneling of anyonic Majorana excitations in topological superconductors

M Cheng, RM Lutchyn, V Galitski, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We consider topological superconductors and topological insulator/superconductor
structures in the presence of multiple static vortices that host Majorana modes and focus on …

Bulk-edge correspondence for Chern topological phases: A viewpoint from a generalized index theorem

T Fukui, K Shiozaki, T Fujiwara… - Journal of the Physical …, 2012 - journals.jps.jp
We explore the bulk-edge correspondence for topological insulators (superconductors)
without time-reversal symmetry from the viewpoint of the index theorem for open spaces. We …