Topological mid-gap states of p_x + i p_y topological superconductor with vortex square superlattice

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2014.07.008MaRDI QIDQ480219zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 8 December 2014

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4122

zbMATH Keywords

\(p_x + i p_y\) topological superconductoranisotropictopological mid-gap statesvortex superlattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: In this paper, the px+ipy topological superconductor with vortex superlattice is studied. We found that there exist mid-gap energy bands induced by the vortex superlattice and the mid-gap energy bands have nontrivial topological properties including the gapless edge states and non-zero winding number. An topological anisotropic tight-binding Majorana lattice model is proposed to describe the mid-gap states.

Review text

In this paper, the authors study \(p_x + i p_y\) topological semiconductors with a square vortex superlattice. It is established that the mid-gap energy bands induced by the vortex square superlattice have nontrivial topological properties including the gapless edge states and nonzero winding number. Next, the authors are concerned with an anisotropic tight-binding Majorana lattice model in order to characterize the mid-gap states and obtain the tunneling parameters by fitting the low energy spectrum with numerical calculations. As a particular case, it is established that the anisotropic tight-binding Majorana lattice model has nontrivial topological properties.

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