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Double Majorana vortex zero modes in superconducting topological crystalline insulators with surface rotation anomaly

Superconductivity 2020-11-25 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The interplay of time-reversal and nn-fold rotation symmetries (n=2,4,6n=2,4,6) is known to bring a new class of topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) having nn surface Dirac cones due to surface rotation anomaly. We show that the proximity-induced ss-wave superconductivity on the surface of these TCIs yields a topological superconducting phase in which two Majorana zero modes are bound to a vortex, and that nn-fold rotation symmetry (n=2,4,6n=2,4,6) enriches the topological classification of a superconducting vortex from Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 to Z2×Z2\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2. Using a model of a three-dimensional high-spin topological insulator with ss-wave superconductivity and two-fold rotation symmetry, we show that, with increasing chemical potential, the number of Majorana zero modes at one end of a vortex changes as 2102\to1\to0 through two topological vortex phase transitions. In addition, we show that additional magnetic-mirror symmetry further enhances the topological classification to Z×Z\mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{Z}

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@article{arxiv.2008.10810,
  title  = {Double Majorana vortex zero modes in superconducting topological crystalline insulators with surface rotation anomaly},
  author = {Shingo Kobayashi and Akira Furusaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10810},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures