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Generic phase diagram for Weyl superconductivity in mirror-symmetric superconductors

Superconductivity 2018-02-21 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study topological phase transitions in three-dimensional odd-parity or noncentrosymmetric superconductors with mirror symmetry when time-reversal symmetry is broken. We construct a generic phase diagram for Weyl superconductivity in the mirror-symmetric superconductors. It is shown that Weyl superconductivity generally emerges between the trivial and the topological crystalline superconductor phases. We demonstrate how a trajectory of the Weyl nodes determines the change in mirror Chern numbers in the topological phase transition. We also discuss a relationship between particle-hole symmetry and the trajectory of the Weyl nodes which realizes the topological crystalline superconductor phase.

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@article{arxiv.1709.01101,
  title  = {Generic phase diagram for Weyl superconductivity in mirror-symmetric superconductors},
  author = {Ryo Okugawa and Takehito Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01101},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures (including Supplemental Material)