Theory of statistical topological insulators

Project Information

STATOPINS

Grant agreement ID: 638760

DOI 10.3030/638760

Project closed

EC signature date 13 February 2015

Start date 1 March 2015

End date 29 February 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 355 103,00

EU contribution € 1 355 103,00

Coordinated by

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (26)

Demonstration of an ac Josephson junction laser

Author(s): M. C. Cassidy, A. Bruno, S. Rubbert, M. Irfan, J. Kammhuber, R. N. Schouten, A. R. Akhmerov, L. P. Kouwenhoven
Published in: Science, Issue 355/6328, 2017, Page(s) 939-942, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aah6640

Robustness of Majorana bound states in the short-junction limit

Author(s): Doru Sticlet, Bas Nijholt, Anton Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 95/11, 2017, Page(s) 115421, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.95.115421

Transparent Semiconductor-Superconductor Interface and Induced Gap in an Epitaxial Heterostructure Josephson Junction

Author(s): M. Kjaergaard, H. J. Suominen, M. P. Nowak, A. R. Akhmerov, J. Shabani, C. J. Palmstrøm, F. Nichele, C. M. Marcus
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 7/3, 2017, Page(s) 034029, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.034029

Quantized conductance doubling and hard gap in a two-dimensional semiconductor–superconductor heterostructure

Author(s): M. Kjaergaard, F. Nichele, H. J. Suominen, M. P. Nowak, M. Wimmer, A. R. Akhmerov, J. A. Folk, K. Flensberg, J. Shabani, C. J. Palmstrøm, C. M. Marcus
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 7, 2016, Page(s) 12841, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12841

Attractive critical point from weak antilocalization on fractals

Author(s): Doru Sticlet, Anton Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 94/16, 2016, Page(s) 161115, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.161115

Two-dimensional Josephson vortex lattice and anomalously slow decay of the Fraunhofer oscillations in a ballistic SNS junction with a warped Fermi surface

Author(s): V. P. Ostroukh, B. Baxevanis, A. R. Akhmerov, C. W. J. Beenakker
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 94/9, 2016, Page(s) 094514-1 094514-11, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC, ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.094514

Effects of the electrostatic environment on the Majorana nanowire devices

Author(s): A Vuik, D Eeltink, A R Akhmerov, M Wimmer
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 18/3, 2016, Page(s) 033013, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/3/033013

Detecting Majorana nonlocality using strongly coupled Majorana bound states

Author(s): S. Rubbert, A. R. Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 94/11, 2016, Page(s) 115430-1 115430-5, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.115430

Orbital effect of magnetic field on the Majorana phase diagram

Author(s): Bas Nijholt, Anton R. Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 93/23, 2016, Page(s) 1-5, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.235434

Qsymm: algorithmic symmetry finding and symmetric Hamiltonian generation

Author(s): Dániel Varjas, Tómas Ö Rosdahl, Anton R Akhmerov
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 20/9, 2018, Page(s) 093026, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aadf67

Supercurrent-induced Majorana bound states in a planar geometry

Author(s): André Melo, Sebastian Rubbert, Anton Akhmerov
Published in: SciPost Physics, Issue 7/3, 2019, ISSN 2542-4653
Publisher: SciPost Physics
DOI: 10.21468/scipostphys.7.3.039

Topological Phases without Crystalline Counterparts

Author(s): Dániel Varjas, Alexander Lau, Kim Pöyhönen, Anton R. Akhmerov, Dmitry I. Pikulin, Ion Cosma Fulga
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 123/19, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.196401

Influence of lattice termination on the edge states of the quantum spin Hall insulator monolayer 1 T ′ − WTe 2

Author(s): Alexander Lau, Rajyavardhan Ray, Dániel Varjas, Anton R. Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review Materials, Issue 3/5, 2019, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: Physical Review Materials
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.054206

Reproducing topological properties with quasi-Majorana states

Author(s): Adriaan Vuik, Bas Nijholt, Anton Akhmerov, Michael Wimmer
Published in: SciPost Physics, Issue 7/5, 2019, ISSN 2542-4653
Publisher: SciPost Physics
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.7.5.061

Breakdown of the Law of Reflection at a Disordered Graphene Edge

Author(s): E. Walter, T. Ö. Rosdahl, A. R. Akhmerov, F. Hassler
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 121/13, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.136803

A general algorithm for computing bound states in infinite tight-binding systems

Author(s): Mathieu Istas, Christoph Groth, Anton Akhmerov, Michael Wimmer, Xavier Waintal
Published in: SciPost Physics, Issue 4/5, 2018, ISSN 2542-4653
Publisher: SciPost Physics
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.4.5.026

Andreev rectifier: A nonlocal conductance signature of topological phase transitions

Author(s): T. Ö. Rosdahl, A. Vuik, M. Kjaergaard, A. R. Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 97/4, 2018, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: Physical Review B
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.045421

Supercurrent carried by nonequilibrium quasiparticles in a multiterminal Josephson junction

Author(s): M. P. Nowak, M. Wimmer, A. R. Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 99/7, 2019, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: Physical Review B
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.99.075416

Deterministic Creation and Braiding of Chiral Edge Vortices

Author(s): C. W. J. Beenakker, P. Baireuther, Y. Herasymenko, I. Adagideli, Lin Wang, A. R. Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 122/14, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.146803

Dissipation-enabled fractional Josephson effect

Author(s): Doru Sticlet, Jay D. Sau, Anton Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 98/12, 2018, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: Physical Review B
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.98.125124

Majorana-Based Fermionic Quantum Computation

Author(s): T. E. O’Brien, P. Rożek, A. R. Akhmerov
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 120/22, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.220504

Supercurrent Interference in Few-Mode Nanowire Josephson Junctions

Author(s): Kun Zuo, Vincent Mourik, Daniel B. Szombati, Bas Nijholt, David J. van Woerkom, Attila Geresdi, Jun Chen, Viacheslav P. Ostroukh, Anton R. Akhmerov, Sebastién R. Plissard, Diana Car, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Dmitry I. Pikulin, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Sergey M. Frolov
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 119/18, 2017, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.187704

Tailoring supercurrent confinement in graphene bilayer weak links

Author(s): Rainer Kraft, Jens Mohrmann, Renjun Du, Pranauv Balaji Selvasundaram, Muhammad Irfan, Umut Nefta Kanilmaz, Fan Wu, Detlef Beckmann, Hilbert von Löhneysen, Ralph Krupke, Anton Akhmerov, Igor Gornyi, Romain Danneau
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04153-4

Platform for nodal topological superconductors in monolayer molybdenum dichalcogenides

Author(s): Lin Wang, Tomas Orn Rosdahl, Doru Sticlet
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 98/20, 2018, Page(s) 205411 1-6, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.205411

Conductance Quantization at Zero Magnetic Field in InSb Nanowires

Author(s): Jakob Kammhuber, Maja C. Cassidy, Hao Zhang, Önder Gül, Fei Pei, Michiel W. A. de Moor, Bas Nijholt, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Diana Car, Sébastien R. Plissard, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 16/6, 2016, Page(s) 3482-3486, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00051

Computation of topological phase diagram of disordered Pb 1 − x Sn x Te

Author(s): Dániel Varjas, Michel Fruchart, Anton R. Akhmerov, Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 2/1, 2020, Page(s) 013229 1-11, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013229

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Symmetries and Boundary Conditions of Topological Materials: General Theory and Applications

Author(s): T.O. Rosdahl
Published in: 2019, ISBN 978-94-6366-144-7
Publisher: Casimir PhD Series, Delft + Leiden
DOI: 10.4233/uuid:fc159c49-40c7-43e4-b0a5-3ebf0bbd8b53