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Phase diagrams of superconducting topological surface states

Superconductivity 2021-12-21 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

In this paper, we present a detailed study on the phase diagrams of superconducting topological surface states, especially, focusing on the interplay between crystalline symmetry and topology of the effective BdG Hamiltonian. We show that for the 4×44\times 4 kinematic Hamiltonian of the normal state, a mirror symmetry M\mathcal{M} can be defined, and for the M\mathcal{M}-odd pairings, the classification of the 8×88\times8 BdG Hamiltonian is ZZ\mathbb{Z}\oplus\mathbb{Z}, and the time-reversal symmetry is broken intrinsically. The topological non-trivial phase can support chiral Majorana edge modes, and can be realized in the thin films of iron-based superconductor such as FeSeTe.

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@article{arxiv.2112.09936,
  title  = {Phase diagrams of superconducting topological surface states},
  author = {W. H. Zhao and L. L. Ding and B. W. Zhou and J. Y. Wu and Y. Bai and Z. Y. Man and X. Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.09936},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures, 1 table