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Topologically protected surface Majorana arcs and bulk Weyl fermions in ferromagnetic superconductors

Superconductivity 2012-10-15 v3

Abstract

A number of ferromagnetic superconductors have been recently discovered which are believed to be in the so-called "equal spin pairing" (ESP) state. In the ESP state the Cooper pairs condense forming order parameters Δ,Δ\Delta_{\uparrow\uparrow}, \Delta_{\downarrow\downarrow} which are decoupled in the spin-sector. We show that these three-dimensional systems should generically support topologically protected surface Majorana arcs and bulk Weyl fermions as gapless excitations. Similar protected low-energy exotic quasiparticles should also appear in the recently discovered non-centrosymmteric superconductors in the presence of a Zeeman field. The protected surface arcs can be probed by angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) as well as scanning tunneling microscope (STM) experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1110.4110,
  title  = {Topologically protected surface Majorana arcs and bulk Weyl fermions in ferromagnetic superconductors},
  author = {Jay D. Sau and Sumanta Tewari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.4110},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

5 pages and 2 figures; Figure 2 revised, typos corrected