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 …

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 …

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 …

Solitons with fermion number ½

R Jackiw, C Rebbi - Physical Review D, 1976 - APS
We study the structure of soliton-monopole systems when Fermi fields are present. We show
that the existence of a nondegenerate, isolated, zero-energy, c-number solution of the Dirac …

2D V‐V binary materials: status and challenges

S Guo, Y Zhang, Y Ge, S Zhang, H Zeng… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene, and bismuthene, as a fast‐growing family
of 2D monoelemental materials, have attracted enormous interest in the scientific community …

A conductive topological insulator with large spin Hall effect for ultralow power spin–orbit torque switching

NHD Khang, Y Ueda, PN Hai - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Spin–orbit torque switching using the spin Hall effect in heavy metals and topological
insulators has a great potential for ultralow power magnetoresistive random-access memory …

Quantum Oscillations and Hall Anomaly of Surface States in the Topological Insulator Bi2Te3

DX Qu, YS Hor, J **ong, RJ Cava, NP Ong - Science, 2010 - science.org
Topological insulators are insulating materials that display massless, Dirac-like surface
states in which the electrons have only one spin degree of freedom on each surface. These …

Topological Superconductivity in

S Sasaki, M Kriener, K Segawa, K Yada, Y Tanaka… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
A topological superconductor (TSC) is characterized by the topologically protected gapless
surface state that is essentially an Andreev bound state consisting of Majorana fermions …

Aharonov–Bohm interference in topological insulator nanoribbons

H Peng, K Lai, D Kong, S Meister, Y Chen, XL Qi… - Nature materials, 2010 - nature.com
Topological insulators represent unusual phases of quantum matter with an insulating bulk
gap and gapless edges or surface states. The two-dimensional topological insulator phase …