Topological superconductors, which support Majorana fermion excitations, have been the subject of intense studies due to their novel transport properties and their potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computations. Here we propose a new type of topological superconductors that can be used as a novel source of correlated spin currents. We show that inducing superconductivity on a AII...

All spaces are assumed to be locally path connected and semi-locally 1-connected. Let X be a connected topological group with identity e, and let p : X̃ → X be the universal cover of the underlying space of X. It follows easily from classical properties of lifting maps to covering spaces that for any point ẽ in X̃ with pẽ = e there is a unique structure of topological group on X̃ such that ẽ is th...

This paper describes a spatio-temporal configurations building approach, which has been applied to dynamics points in 1-dimensional space. In this approach, a temporal logic, Allen’s time intervals, is crossed with a new spatial logic based on topology called spatial states. These spatial states are derived from topological relationships and a new concept of degenerate topological relationships...

We give a sufficient condition for a bi-invariant weight on a Frobenius bimodule to satisfy the extension property. This condition applies to bi-invariant weights on a finite Frobenius ring as a special case. The complex-valued functions on a Frobenius bimodule are viewed as a module over the semigroup ring of the multiplicative semigroup of the coefficient ring.

Given a conditionally completely positive map L on a unital ∗-algebra A, we find an interesting connection between the second Hochschild cohomology of A with coefficients in the bimodule EL = Ba(A⊕M) of adjointable maps, where M is the GNS bimodule of L, and the possibility of constructing a quantum random walk (in the sense of [2, 11, 13, 16]) corresponding to L.

We construct a counterexample to Solel’s[25] conjecture that the range of any contractive, idempotent, MASA bimodule map on B(H) is necessarily a ternary subalgebra. Our construction reduces this problem to an analogous problem about the ranges of idempotent maps that are equivariant with respect to a group action. Such maps are important to understand Hamana’s theory of G-injective operator sp...

A large part of the scientific legacy Maurice Kleman concerns topological defects in liquid crystals. Here, we focus on very first article crystals coauthored with Jacques Friedel and devoted to linear cholesterics discovered 1921 by François Grandjean who observed them wedges made from partially cleaved mica sheets. interpreted thin (single) thick (double) lines as dislocations Burgers vectors...

We show how the framework of crossed simplicial groups may be used to provide a classification of topological field theories on open cobordism categories defined by reductions of the structure group to a planar Lie group. Such theories are equivalent to algebras equipped with a group action and a non-degenerate trace satisfying certain invariance requirements which generalize the notion of a fr...