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Room-Temperature Topological Phase Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional Material BiI
Jianwei Huang, Sheng Li, Chiho Yoon +16
Quasi-one-dimensional (1D) materials provide a superior platform for characterizing and tuning topological phases for two reasons: i) existence for multiple cleavable surfaces that…
Electrically tunable chiral Majorana edge modes in quantum anomalous Hall insulator-topological superconductor systems
Qing Yan, Yan-Feng Zhou, Qing-Feng Sun
Chiral Majorana edge modes are theoretically proposed to perform braiding operations for the potential quantum computation. Here, we suggest a scheme to regulate trajectories of th…
Anomalous spin Nernst effect in Weyl semimetals
Ning-Xuan Yang, Yan-Feng Zhou, Zhe Hou +1
The spin Nernst effect describes a transverse spin current induced by the longitudinal thermal gradient in a system with the spin-orbit coupling. Here we study the spin Nernst effe…
Non-Abelian Braiding of Chiral Majorana Fermions by Quantum Dots
Yan-Feng Zhou, Zhe Hou, Qing-Feng Sun
The non-Abelian braiding of Majorana fermions is one of the most promising operations providing a key building block for the realization of topological quantum computation. Recentl…
Quantum transport through three-dimensional topological insulator p-n junction under magnetic field
Ning Dai, Yan-Feng Zhou, Peng Lv +1
The 3D topological insulator (TI) PN junction under magnetic fields presents a novel transport property which is investigated both theoretically and numerically in this paper. Tran…
Configuration-Sensitive Transport on Domain Walls of a Magnetic Topological Insulator
Yan-Feng Zhou, Zhe Hou, Qing-Feng Sun
We study the transport on the domain wall (DW) in a magnetic topological insulator. The low-energy behaviors of the magnetic topological insulator are dominated by the chiral edge…
Magnetic Flux Control of Chiral Majorana Edge Modes in Topological Superconductor
Yan-Feng Zhou, Zhe Hou, Peng Lv +2
We study the transport of chiral Majorana edge modes (CMEMs) in a hybrid quantum anomalous Hall insulator-topological superconductor (QAHI-TSC) system in which the TSC region conta…
Surface Step Defect in 3D Topological Insulators: Electric Manipulation of Spin and Quantum Spin Hall Effect
Yan-Feng Zhou, Ai-Min Guo, Qing-Feng Sun
We study the influence of step defect on surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. By calculating the energy spectrum of…
Gate voltage controlled thermoelectric figure of merit in three-dimensional topological insulator nanowires
Ning-Xuan Yang, Yan-Feng Zhou, Peng Lv +1
The thermoelectric properties of the surface states in three-dimensional topological insulator nanowires are studied. The Seebeck coefficients and the dimensionless thermoele…
Magnetoanisotropic spin-triplet Andreev reflection in ferromagnet-Ising superconductor junctions
Peng Lv, Yan-Feng Zhou, Ning-Xuan Yang +1
We theoretically study the electronic transport through a ferromagnet-Ising superconductor junction. A tight-binding Hamiltonian describing the Ising superconductor is presented. T…
Chiral Majorana fermion modes regulated by a scanning tunneling microscope tip
Yan-Feng Zhou, Zhe Hou, Ying-Tao Zhang +1
The Majorana fermion can be described by a real wave function with only two phases (0 and π) which provide a controllable degree of freedom. We propose a strategy to regulate the p…
Photoinduced valley-polarized current of layered MoS2 by electric tuning
Yunjin Yu, Yanfeng Zhou, Langhui Wan +4
A photoinduced current of a layered MoS2-based transistor is studied from first-principles. Under the illumination of circular polarized light, a valley-polarized current is genera…
Two-Dimensional Lattice Model for the Surface States of Topological Insulators
Yan-Feng Zhou, Hua Jiang, X. C. Xie +1
The surface states in three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) can be described by a two-dimensional (2D) continuous Dirac Hamiltonian. However, there exists the Fermion…