Possible two-component pairings in electron-doped Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ based on a tight-binding model
Abstract
Recent experiments show the spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry in the superconducting topological insulators MBiSe (M represents Cu, Sr, or Nd), suggesting that the pairing belongs to a two-dimensional representation of the symmetry group of the crystal. Motivated by these progresses, we construct an exhaustive list of possible two-component pairings of the MBiSe superconductors, both for the odd-parity representation and for the even-parity representation. Starting from a tight-binding model for the normal phase of BiSe and MBiSe, we firstly construct the pairing channels in the spin-orbital basis, up to second-nearest-neighbor pairing correlations in the basal plane. We then infer the properties of these pairings by transforming them to the band (pseudospin) basis for the conduction band. A comparison with the key experimental consensuses on MBiSe superconductors shows that the true pairings should also be multichannel. Besides a nematic and time-reversal symmetric pairing combination, the other pairings that we have identified are chiral and nematic at the same time, which may be nonunitary and have a spontaneous magnetization. A complementary set of experiments are proposed to identify the true pairing symmetries of these superconductors and their evolution with the doping concentration .
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@article{arxiv.1812.07834,
title = {Possible two-component pairings in electron-doped Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ based on a tight-binding model},
author = {Lei Hao and C. S. Ting},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.07834},
year = {2019}
}
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15 pages, 5 tables