Topological classification of intrinsic 3D superconductors using anomalous surface construction
Abstract
Intrinsic topological superconductors have protected gapless Majorana modes, bound and/or propagating, at the natural boundaries of the sample, without requiring field, defect, or heterostructure. We establish the complete classification/construction of intrinsic topological superconductors jointly protected by point-group and time-reversal symmetries in three dimensions. This is obtained from enumerating distinct ways for stacking th-order irreducible building blocks, minimal anomalous surface states of th-order topological superconductors. Particularly, our method provides a unified description of possible surface anomalies away from high-symmetry points/lines in terms of the homotopy group of the surface mass field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.14629,
title = {Topological classification of intrinsic 3D superconductors using anomalous surface construction},
author = {Zhongyi Zhang and Jie Ren and Yang Qi and Chen Fang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14629},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
43 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables