JPCM topical review round-up part 6: Understanding the elusive topological superconductor

By Jade Holt on July 29, 2015

Topological flat-band states in nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors (NCS).

Gapped electronic systems can possess nontrivial topology and while many topological insulators have now been found, topological superconductors are much rarer.

Topological superconductors contain protected Majorana surface states, which can occur due to a nontrivial topology of the bulk quasiparticle wavefunctions. These states have important implications in the quest for quantum information technology.

The authors, Schnyder and Brydon, provide an excellent overview, for theorists and experimentalists alike, of nodal topological superconductors and show through carefully selected examples how different topological superconductors can be realised along with the unusual properties they display.

You can read the review in full and for free here.

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