Topological p+ip superconductivity in doped graphene-like single-sheet materials BC$_3$
Abstract
We theoretically study exotic superconducting phases in graphenelike single-sheet material BC doped to its type-II Van Hove singularity whose saddle point momenta are {\it not} time-reversal-invariant. From combined renormalization group analysis and RPA calculations, we show that the dominant superconducting instability induced by weak repulsive interactions is in the time-reversal-invariant pairing channel because of the interplay among dominant ferromagnetic fluctuations, subleading spin fluctuations at finite momentum, and spin-orbit coupling. Such time-reversal-invariant superconductivity has nontrivial topological invariant. Our results show that doped BC provides a promising route to realize a genuine 2D helical superconductor.
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@article{arxiv.1404.3346,
title = {Topological p+ip superconductivity in doped graphene-like single-sheet materials BC$_3$},
author = {Xi Chen and Yugui Yao and Hong Yao and Fan Yang and Jun Ni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.3346},
year = {2015}
}
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5.2 pages + appendix, 3 figures, published version