Topological surface states in nodal superconductors

AP Schnyder, PMR Brydon - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological superconductors have become a subject of intense research due to their
potential use for technical applications in device fabrication and quantum information …

Topological surface Fermi arcs in the magnetic Weyl semimetal

Q Xu, E Liu, W Shi, L Muechler, J Gayles, C Felser… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Very recently, the half-metallic compound Co 3 Sn 2 S 2 was proposed to be a magnetic
Weyl semimetal (WSM) with Weyl points only 60 meV above the Fermi level EF. Owing to the …

Superconducting topological surface states in the noncentrosymmetric bulk superconductor PbTaSe2

SY Guan, PJ Chen, MW Chu, R Sankar, F Chou… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The search for topological superconductors (TSCs) is one of the most urgent contemporary
problems in condensed matter systems. TSCs are characterized by a full superconducting …

Nodal rings and drumhead surface states in phononic crystals

W Deng, J Lu, F Li, X Huang, M Yan, J Ma… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Three-dimensional topological nodal lines, the touching curves of two bands in momentum
space, which give rise to drumhead surface states, provide an opportunity to explore a …

Signatures of Fermi arcs in the quasiparticle interferences of the Weyl semimetals TaAs and NbP

G Chang, SY Xu, H Zheng, CC Lee, SM Huang… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The recent discovery of the first Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a
Weyl fermion in nature. Such a topological semimetal features a novel type of anomalous …

Universal signatures of Fermi arcs in quasiparticle interference on the surface of Weyl semimetals

S Kourtis, J Li, Z Wang, A Yazdani, BA Bernevig - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Weyl semimetals constitute a newly discovered class of three-dimensional topological
materials with linear touchings of valence and conduction bands in the bulk. The most …

Majorana surface modes of nodal topological pairings in spin- semimetals

W Yang, T **ang, C Wu - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
When solid state systems possess active orbital-band structures subject to spin-orbit
coupling, their multicomponent electronic structures are often described in terms of effective …

Stability of flat-band edge states in topological superconductors without inversion center

R Queiroz, AP Schnyder - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Nodal superconductors without inversion symmetry exhibit nontrivial topological properties,
manifested by topologically protected flat-band edge states. Here we study the effects of …

Helical Majorana surface states of strongly disordered topological superconductors with time-reversal symmetry

R Queiroz, AP Schnyder - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling and the B phase of He
3 are possible realizations of topological superconductors with time-reversal symmetry. The …

Surface instability in nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors

C Timm, S Rex, PMR Brydon - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study the stability of topologically protected zero-energy flat bands at the surface of
nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors, accounting for the alteration of the gap near the …