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Three-dimensional superconductors with hybrid higher order topology

Superconductivity 2019-04-11 v2

Abstract

We consider three dimensional superconductors in class DIII with a four-fold rotation axis and inversion symmetry. It is shown that such systems can exhibit higher order topology with helical Majorana hinge modes. In the case of even-parity superconductors we show that higher order topological superconductors can be obtained by adding a small pairing with the appropriate C4C_4 symmetry implementation to a topological insulator. We also show that a hybrid case is possible, where Majorana surface cones resulting from non-trivial strong topology coexist with helical hinge modes. We propose a bulk invariant detecting this hybrid scenario, and numerically analyse a tight binding model exhibiting both Majorana cones and hinge modes.

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@article{arxiv.1810.12963,
  title  = {Three-dimensional superconductors with hybrid higher order topology},
  author = {Nick Bultinck and B. Andrei Bernevig and Michael P. Zaletel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12963},
  year   = {2019}
}

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