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Multiple Topological Phase Transitions Unveiling Gapless Topological Superconductivity in Magnet/Unconventional Superconductor Hybrid Platform

Superconductivity 2024-05-06 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We propose a theoretical framework for generating gapless topological superconductivity (GTSC) hosting Majorana flat edge modes (MFEMs) in the presence of a two-dimensional (2D) array of magnetic adatoms with noncollinear spin texture deposited on top of a unconventional superconductor. Our observations reveal two distinct topological phase transitions within the emergent Shiba band depending on the exchange coupling strength (JJ) between magnetic adatom spins and superconducting electrons: the first one designates transition from gapless non-topological to gapless topological phase at lower JJ, while the second one denotes transition from gapless topological to a trivial gapped superconducting phase at higher JJ. The gapless topological superconducting phase survives at intermediate values of JJ, hosting MFEMs. Further, we investigate the nature of the bulk effective pairings which indicate that GTSC appears due to the interplay between pseudo "ss-wave" and pseudo "px+pyp_{x}+p_y" types of pairing. Consequently, our study opens a promising avenue for the experimental realization of GTSC in 2D Shiba lattice based on dd-wave superconductors as a high-temperature platform.

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@article{arxiv.2405.01914,
  title  = {Multiple Topological Phase Transitions Unveiling Gapless Topological Superconductivity in Magnet/Unconventional Superconductor Hybrid Platform},
  author = {Minakshi Subhadarshini and Amartya Pal and Pritam Chatterjee and Arijit Saha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.01914},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Invited article for APL Special Collection: Topological and Chiral Matter - Physics and Applications. This is the Published Version