On the remarkable superconductivity of FeSe and its close cousins

A Kreisel, PJ Hirschfeld, BM Andersen - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Emergent electronic phenomena in iron-based superconductors have been at the forefront
of condensed matter physics for more than a decade. Much has been learned about the …

[HTML][HTML] Half-integer level shift of vortex bound states in an iron-based superconductor

L Kong, S Zhu, M Papaj, H Chen, L Cao, H Isobe… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Vortices in topological superconductors may host Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which have
been proposed as the building blocks of fault-tolerant topological quantum computers …

Topological Superconductivity in an Extended -Wave Superconductor and Its Implication to Iron-Based Superconductors

S Qin, C Fang, FC Zhang, J Hu - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
In the presence of both space and time reversal symmetries, an s-wave A 1 g
superconducting state is usually topologically trivial. Here, we demonstrate that an exception …

Recent progress of scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy study of Majorana bound states in the FeTe0. 55Se0. 45 superconductor

G Li, S Zhu, D Wang, Y Wang… - … Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Majorana bound states (MBSs) are spatially-localized zero-energy quasiparticles following
non-Abelian braiding statistics that hold a great promise for fault-tolerant topological …

Vortex and surface phase transitions in superconducting higher-order topological insulators

SAA Ghorashi, TL Hughes, E Rossi - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Topological insulators, having intrinsic or proximity-coupled s-wave superconductivity, host
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at the ends of vortex lines. The MZMs survive up to a critical …

Competing vortex topologies in iron-based superconductors

LH Hu, X Wu, CX Liu, RX Zhang - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
In this Letter, we establish a new theoretical paradigm for vortex Majorana physics in the
recently discovered topological iron-based superconductors (TFeSCs). While TFeSCs are …

Vortex-line topology in iron-based superconductors with and without second-order topology

M Kheirkhah, Z Yan, F Marsiglio - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The band topology of a superconductor is known to have profound impact on the existence
of Majorana zero modes in vortices. As iron-based superconductors with band inversion and …

Higher-order topological superconductors based on weak topological insulators

XJ Luo, XH Pan, X Liu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Higher-order topological phases host robust boundary states at the boundary of the
boundary, which can be interpreted from their boundary topology. In this work, we show that …

Emergent vortex Majorana zero mode in iron-based superconductors

L Kong, H Ding - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12850, 2021 - arxiv.org
The vortex of iron-based superconductors is emerging as a promising platform for Majorana
zero mode, owing to a magic integration among intrinsic vortex winding, non-trivial band …

Vortex end Majorana zero modes in superconducting Dirac and Weyl semimetals

Z Yan, Z Wu, W Huang - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Time-reversal invariant Dirac and Weyl semimetals in three dimensions (3D) can host open
Fermi arcs and spin-momentum locking Fermi loops on the surfaces. We find that when they …