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Edge properties of the chiral d-wave superconducting state in doped graphene

Superconductivity 2015-03-20 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate the effect of edges on the intrinsic electron-electron interaction driven d-wave superconducting state in graphene doped close to the van Hove singularity. While the bulk is in a chiral dx2y2+idxyd_{x^2-y^2}+id_{xy} state, the order parameter at any edge is enhanced and has dx2y2d_{x^2-y^2}-symmetry, with a decay length strongly increasing with weakening superconductivity. No graphene edge is pair breaking for the dx2y2d_{x^2-y^2} state and we never find any localized zero-energy edge states. We find two chiral edge modes which carry a spontaneous, but not quantized, quasiparticle current related to the zero-energy momentum. Moreover, for realistic values of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a Majorana fermion appears at the edge when tuning a Zeeman field.

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@article{arxiv.1204.2425,
  title  = {Edge properties of the chiral d-wave superconducting state in doped graphene},
  author = {Annica M. Black-Schaffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2425},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures. Supplementary material added. Published version