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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 121, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.196801
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- JSPS Kakenhi [16H02204]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland)
- NCCR QSIT
- European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ERC Starting Grant) [757725]
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We propose a tune-free scheme to realize Kramers pairs of Majorana bound states in recently discovered higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). We show that, by bringing two hinges of a HOTI into the proximity of an s-wave superconductor, the competition between local and crossed Andreev pairing leads to the formation of Majorana Kramers pairs, when the latter pairing dominates over the former. We demonstrate that such a topological superconductivity is stabilized by moderate electron-electron interactions. The proposed setup avoids the application of a magnetic field or local voltage gates, and requires weaker interactions compared with nonhelical nanowires.
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