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Topological Phases in Nodeless Tetragonal Superconductors

Superconductivity 2019-01-24 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We compute the topological phase diagram of 2D tetragonal superconductors for the only possible nodeless pairing channels compatible with that crystal symmetry. Subject to a Zeeman field and spin-orbit coupling, we demonstrate that these superconductors show surprising topological features: non-trivial high Chern numbers, massive edge states, and zero-energy modes out of high symmetry points, even though the edge states remain topologically protected. Interestingly, one of these pairing symmetries, d+idd+id, has been proposed to describe materials such as water-intercalated sodium cobaltates, bilayer silicene or highly doped monolayer graphene, which opens the way for further applications of our results.

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@article{arxiv.1804.00007,
  title  = {Topological Phases in Nodeless Tetragonal Superconductors},
  author = {Santiago Varona and Laura Ortiz and Oscar Viyuela and Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00007},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Minor corrections, results unchanged

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