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Topological Crystalline Superconductivity in Dirac Semimetal Phase of Iron-based Superconductors

Superconductivity 2019-09-18 v1

Abstract

In iron-based superconductors, band inversion of dd- and pp-orbitals yields Dirac semimetallic states. We theoretically investigate their topological properties in normal and superconducting phases, based on the tight-binding model involving full symmetry of the materials. We demonstrate that a Cooper pair between electrons with dd- and pp-orbitals relevant to the band structure yields odd-parity superconductivity. Moreover, we present the typical surface states by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation and characterize them by topological invariants defined with crystal symmetry. It is found that there appear various types of Majorana fermions such as surface flat band, Majorana quartet and M\"{o}bius twisted surface state. Our theoretical results show that iron-based superconductors are promising platforms to realize rich topological crystalline phases.

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@article{arxiv.1906.09286,
  title  = {Topological Crystalline Superconductivity in Dirac Semimetal Phase of Iron-based Superconductors},
  author = {Takuto Kawakami and Masatoshi Sato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09286},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures