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Superconductivity in three-dimensional interacting doped topological insulators

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-11-06 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Three-dimensional doped Dirac insulators foster simply connected (in both topological and trivial regimes) and annular (deep inside the topological regime) Fermi surfaces (FSs) in the normal state, and allow on-site repulsions among fermions with opposite spin (U1U_1) and parity (U2U_2) eigenvalues. From an unbiased leading-order (one-loop) renormalization group analysis, controlled by a suitable ϵ\epsilon expansion, we show that this system develops a strong propensity toward the nucleation of scalar ss-wave and odd-parity pseudoscalar pp-wave pairings, favored by repulsive U1U_1 and U2U_2 interactions, respectively, irrespective of the underlying FS topology. Our results can be pertinent for the observed superconductivity in various doped narrow gap semiconductors, and the theoretical foundation can readily be applied to investigate similar phenomenon in various doped topological materials.

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@article{arxiv.2407.08736,
  title  = {Superconductivity in three-dimensional interacting doped topological insulators},
  author = {Andras L. Szabo and Bitan Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08736},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Published version in PRB Letter: 6 Pages, 1 Figure, 2 Tables (Supplemental Material as ancillary file)

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