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Topological classification of intrinsic 3D superconductors using anomalous surface construction

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-09-23 v3 Materials Science Superconductivity

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 nnth-order irreducible building blocks, minimal anomalous surface states of nnth-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.

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@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}
}

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43 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables

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