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 …

Colloquium: Majorana fermions in nuclear, particle, and solid-state physics

SR Elliott, M Franz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Ettore Majorana (1906–1938) disappeared while traveling by ship from Palermo to Naples
in 1938. His fate has never been fully resolved and several articles have been written that …

Topological insulator materials

Y Ando - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2013 - journals.jps.jp
Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by
peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave …

Dirac materials

TO Wehling, AM Black-Schaffer… - Advances in Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological
insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as …

Experimental Detection of a Majorana Mode in the core of a Magnetic Vortex inside a Topological Insulator-Superconductor Heterostructure

JP Xu, MX Wang, ZL Liu, JF Ge, X Yang, C Liu, ZA Xu… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Majorana fermions have been intensively studied in recent years for their importance to both
fundamental science and potential applications in topological quantum computing. They are …

Topological nanomaterials

P Liu, JR Williams, JJ Cha - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new frontier in condensed matter
physics: topological materials with an electronic band structure belonging to a different …

Topological superconductivity in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

YT Hsu, A Vaezi, MH Fischer, EA Kim - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Theoretically, it has been known that breaking spin degeneracy and effectively realizing
spinless fermions is a promising path to topological superconductors. Yet, topological …

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 …

Large-Chern-number quantum anomalous Hall effect in thin-film topological crystalline insulators

C Fang, MJ Gilbert, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We theoretically predict that thin-film topological crystalline insulators can host various
quantum anomalous Hall phases when doped by ferromagnetically ordered dopants. Any …

Pressure-Induced Unconventional Superconducting Phase in the Topological Insulator

K Kirshenbaum, PS Syers, AP Hope, NP Butch… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Simultaneous low-temperature electrical resistivity and Hall effect measurements were
performed<? format?> on single-crystalline Bi 2 Se 3 under applied pressures up to 50 GPa …