Surface transport coefficients for three-dimensional topological superconductors
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 , there are "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- 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
24 pages, 15 figures. v3: published version