Topological quantum phase transitions in the spin-singlet superconductor with Rashba and Dresselhaus (110) spin-orbit couplings

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.06.009zbMATH Open1343.82067arXiv1306.2436OpenAlexW2044050048MaRDI QIDQ305258FDOQ305258

Authors: Jia-Bin You, A. H. Chan, C. H. Oh, Vlatko Vedral 

Publication date: 29 August 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine the topological properties of a spin-singlet superconductor with Rashba and Dresselhaus (110) spin-orbit couplings. We demonstrate that there are several topological invariants in the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonian by symmetry analysis. We use the Pfaffian invariant $mathcalP$ for the particle-hole symmetry to demonstrate all the possible phase diagrams of the BdG Hamiltonian. We find that the edge spectrum is either Dirac cone or flat band which supports the emergence of the Majorana fermion in this system. For the Majorana flat bands, a higher symmetric BdG Hamiltonian is needed to make them topologically stable. The Pfaffian invariant $mathcalP(k_y)$ and the winding number $mathcalW(k_y)$ are used in determining the location of the Majorana flat bands.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2436

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zbMATH Keywords

Majorana fermiontopological quantum phase transitiontopological superconductor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Cites Work

• Non-abelian anyons and topological quantum computation

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