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Two-electron photoemission spectroscopy in Topological Superconductors

Superconductivity 2022-10-24 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that the photo-electron counting rate, P(2)P^{(2)}, measured in two electron coincidence spectroscopy (2ee-ARPES) experiments, provides unprecedented insight into the nature of topological superconductivity. In particular, we show that the spin dependence of P(2)P^{(2)} allows one to detect superconducting spin-triplet correlations that are induced in a topological superconductor even in the absence of an associated triplet superconducting order parameter. This ability to detect spin-triplet correlations allows one to distinguish between two recently proposed scenarios for the microscopic origin of topological superconductivity in FeSe0.45_{0.45}Te0.55_{0.55}. Finally, we show that P(2)P^{(2)} exhibits a characteristic intensity maximum that can be employed to detect topological phase transitions.

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@article{arxiv.2210.11738,
  title  = {Two-electron photoemission spectroscopy in Topological Superconductors},
  author = {Ka Ho Wong and Ameya Patwardhan and Peter Abbamonte and Fahad Mahmood and Dirk K. Morr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11738},
  year   = {2022}
}