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Topological p+ip superconductivity in doped graphene-like single-sheet materials BC$_3$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-11-04 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We theoretically study exotic superconducting phases in graphenelike single-sheet material BC3_3 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 p+ipp+ip pairing channel because of the interplay among dominant ferromagnetic fluctuations, subleading spin fluctuations at finite momentum, and spin-orbit coupling. Such time-reversal-invariant p+ipp+ip superconductivity has nontrivial Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 topological invariant. Our results show that doped BC3_3 provides a promising route to realize a genuine 2D helical p+ipp+ip 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