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Topological d-wave superconductivity in two dimensions

Superconductivity 2022-04-06 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Despite intensive searches for topological superconductors, the realization of topological superconductivity remains under debate. Previous proposals for the topological ss-wave, pp-wave, and chiral dd-wave superconductivity have both advantages and disadvantages. In this review, we discuss two-dimensional topological superconductivity based on the non-chiral dd-wave superconductors. It is shown that the noncentrosymmetric dd-wave superconductors become topological superconductors under an infinitesimal Zeeman field without fine-tuning of parameters. Floquet engineering for introducing the Zeeman field in a controllable way is also proposed. When the two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric superconductors are stacked to recover the global inversion symmetry, the field-induced parity transition may occur, and the high-field odd-parity superconducting state realizes various topological phases depending on the stacking structures. Two-dimensional heterostructures of strongly correlated electron systems, which have been developed by recent experiments, are proposed as a platform of the high-temperature topological superconductivity and the interplay of topology and strong correlations in superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.2111.03804,
  title  = {Topological d-wave superconductivity in two dimensions},
  author = {Youichi Yanase and Akito Daido and Kazuaki Takasan and Tsuneya Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03804},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to Physica E as an invited review paper

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