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Skyrmion spin texture in ferromagnetic semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures

Superconductivity 2014-04-25 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We provide a derivation of a spin Skyrmion number classification for two-dimensional topological superconductors constructed from ferromagnetic and Rashba spin-orbit coupled semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. We show that in the non-trivial topological phase, characterized by a non-zero Chern number, there is always a topological spin texture in the occupied bands represented by a Skyrmion number. The Skyrmion number has the advantage of being both physically intuitive and directly measurable using spin-sensitive band structure imaging techniques. In addition, we show that the Skyrmion classification can be extended to the equivalent one-dimensional topological superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.1309.3411,
  title  = {Skyrmion spin texture in ferromagnetic semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures},
  author = {Kristofer Björnson and Annica M. Black-Schaffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3411},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures

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