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Surface transport coefficients for three-dimensional topological superconductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-02-02 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity

Abstract

We argue that surface spin and thermal conductivities of three-dimensional topological superconductors are universal and topologically quantized at low temperature. For a bulk winding number ν\nu, there are ν|\nu| "colors" of surface Majorana fermions. Localization corrections to surface transport coefficients vanish due to time-reversal symmetry (TRS). We argue that Altshuler-Aronov interaction corrections vanish because TRS forbids color or spin Friedel oscillations. We confirm this within a perturbative expansion in the interactions, and to lowest order in a large-ν|\nu| expansion. In both cases, we employ an asymptotically exact treatment of quenched disorder effects that exploits the chiral character unique to two-dimensional, time-reversal-invariant Majorana surface states.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7730,
  title  = {Surface transport coefficients for three-dimensional topological superconductors},
  author = {Hong-Yi Xie and Yang-Zhi Chou and Matthew S. Foster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7730},
  year   = {2015}
}

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24 pages, 15 figures. v3: published version

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