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20192026
most citedFirst- and Second-Order Topological Superconductivity and Temperature-Driven Topological Phase Transitions in the Extended Hubbard Model with Spin-Orbit Coupling

80 citations · 220 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

quant-ph2026

Measuring higher-order bulk topology in a programmable quantum simulator

Pratik Sathe, Niclas Heinsdorf, Majid Kheirkhah +13

Topological insulators lie outside the standard Landau paradigm: Instead of being characterized by local order parameters and spontaneous symmetry breaking, their defining properti…

quant-ph2026

Analog-Digital Quantum Computing with Quantum Annealing Processors

Rahul Deshpande, Majid Kheirkhah, Chris Rich +12

Quantum annealing processors typically control qubits in unison, attenuating quantum fluctuations uniformly until the applied system Hamiltonian is diagonal in the computational ba…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Phases of three-dimensional -wave superconductors with two attractive interactions

Majid Kheirkhah, Igor F. Herbut

Three-dimensional -wave () superconducting state may result from Cooper pairing in channels with different angular momenta and spin, such as or . W…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 2 cited

Superconductivity in Luttinger semimetals near the SU(4) limit

Majid Kheirkhah, Igor F. Herbut

We consider the spin-3/2 Luttinger fermions with contact attraction near the SU(4)-symmetric limit of vanishing Luttinger spin-orbit-coupling parameter responsible for band inversi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 22 cited

Sublattice-enriched tunability of bound states in second-order topological insulators and superconductors

Di Zhu, Majid Kheirkhah, Zhongbo Yan

Bound states at sharp corners have been widely viewed as the hallmark of two-dimensional second-order topological insulators and superconductors. In this work, we show that the exi…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 24 cited

Corner- and sublattice-sensitive Majorana zero modes on the kagome lattice

Majid Kheirkhah, Di Zhu, Joseph Maciejko +1

In a first-order topological phase with sublattice degrees of freedom, a change in the boundary sublattice termination has no effect on the existence of gapless boundary states in…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 20 cited

Surface Bogoliubov-Dirac cones and helical Majorana hinge modes in superconducting Dirac semimetals

Majid Kheirkhah, Zheng-Yang Zhuang, Joseph Maciejko +1

In the presence of certain symmetries, three-dimensional Dirac semimetals can harbor not only surface Fermi arcs, but also surface Dirac cones. Motivated by the experimental observ…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 38 cited

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

Majid Kheirkhah, Zhongbo Yan, Frank Marsiglio

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 $s…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 80 cited

First- and Second-Order Topological Superconductivity and Temperature-Driven Topological Phase Transitions in the Extended Hubbard Model with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Majid Kheirkhah, Zhongbo Yan, Yuki Nagai +1

The combination of spin-orbit coupling with interactions results in many exotic phases of matter. In this Letter, we investigate the superconducting pairing instability of the two-…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 34 cited

Majorana corner flat bands in two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors

Majid Kheirkhah, Yuki Nagai, Chun Chen +1

In this paper we find that confining a second-order topological superconductor with a harmonic potential leads to a proliferation of Majorana corner modes. As a consequence, this r…