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Paramagnetically induced gapful topological superconductors

Superconductivity 2016-10-21 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We propose a generic scenario for realizing gapful topological superconductors (TSCs) from gapless spin-singlet superconductors (SCs). Noncentrosymmetric nodal SCs in two dimension are shown to be gapful under a Zeeman field, as a result of the cooperation of inversion-symmetry breaking and time-reversal-symmetry breaking. In particular, non-s-wave SCs acquire a large excitation gap. Such paramagnetically-induced gapful SCs may be classified into TSCs in the symmetry class D specified by the Chern number. We show nontrivial Chern numbers over a wide parameter range for spin-singlet SCs. A variety of the paramagnetically-induced gapful TSCs are demonstrated, including D+p-wave TSC, extended S+p-wave TSC, p+D+f-wave TSC, and s+P-wave TSC. Natural extension toward three-dimensional Weyl SCs is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1605.00083,
  title  = {Paramagnetically induced gapful topological superconductors},
  author = {Akito Daido and Youichi Yanase},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00083},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pgaes, 6 figures

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