Classification of engineered topological superconductors
From MaRDI portal
Abstract: I perform a complete classification of 2d, quasi-1d and 1d topological superconductors which originate from the suitable combination of inhomogeneous Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetism and superconductivity. My analysis reveals alternative types of topological superconducting platforms for which Majorana fermions are accessible. Specifically, I observe that for quasi-1d systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and time-reversal violating superconductivity, as for instance due to a finite Josephson current flow, Majorana fermions can emerge even in the absence of magnetism. Furthermore, for the classification I also consider situations where additional "hidden" symmetries emerge, with a significant impact on the topological properties of the system. The latter, generally originate from a combination of space group and complex conjugation operations that separately do not leave the Hamiltonian invariant. Finally, I suggest alternative directions in topological quantum computing for systems with additional unitary symmetries.
Recommendations
- Induced p-wave superconductivity without spin-orbit interactions
- Topological quantum phase transitions in the spin-singlet superconductor with Rashba and Dresselhaus (110) spin-orbit couplings
- Topological transitions in multi-band superconductors
- Characterizations of topological superconductors: Chern numbers, edge states and Majorana zero modes
- Symmetry and topology of noncentrosymmetric superconductors
Cites work
- Berry phase effects on electronic properties
- Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1866310 (Why is no real title available?)
- Non-abelian anyons and topological quantum computation
- Non-Abelian statistics of axion strings
- Teoria simmetrica dell’elettrone e del positrone
- Universal quantum computation with ideal Clifford gates and noisy ancillas
Cited in
(5)- Topological transitions in multi-band superconductors
- Topological quantum phase transitions in the spin-singlet superconductor with Rashba and Dresselhaus (110) spin-orbit couplings
- Induced p-wave superconductivity without spin-orbit interactions
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5649217 (Why is no real title available?)
- Josephson and Persistent Currents in a Quantum Ring between Topological Superconductors
This page was built for publication: Classification of engineered topological superconductors
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5141590)
