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Coupled Wire Models of Interacting Dirac Nodal Superconductors

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-11-28 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Topological nodal superconductors possess gapless low energy excitations that are characterized by point or line nodal Fermi surfaces. In this work, using a coupled wire construction, we study topological nodal superconductors that have protected Dirac nodal points. In this construction, the low-energy electronic degrees of freedom are confined in a three dimensional array of wires, which emerge as pairing vortices of a microscopic superconducting system. The vortex array harbors an antiferromagnetic time-reversal and a mirror glide symmetry that protect the massless Dirac fermion in the single-body non-interacting limit. Within this model, we demonstrate exact-solvable many-body interactions that preserve the underlying symmetries and introduce a finite excitation energy gap. These gapping interactions support fractionalization and generically lead to non-trivial topological order. We also construct a special case of N=16N=16 Dirac fermions where corresponding the gapping interaction leads to a trivial E8E_8 topological order that is closely related to the cancellation of the large gravitational anomaly.

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@article{arxiv.1806.09599,
  title  = {Coupled Wire Models of Interacting Dirac Nodal Superconductors},
  author = {Moon Jip Park and Syed Raza and Matthew J. Gilbert and Jeffrey C. Y. Teo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09599},
  year   = {2018}
}

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25 pages, 9 figures