Majorana bound state of a Bogoliubov-de Gennes-Dirac Hamiltonian in arbitrary dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.09.003MaRDI QIDQ659364zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K.-I. Imura, Takahiro Fukui, Takanori Fujiwara

Publication date 18 January 2012

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5629

zbMATH Keywords

Berry phaseBogoliubov-de Gennes equationDirac Hamiltonianindex theoremMajorana bound statetopological invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Topological invariants ((DN), ((Omega)), etc.) for locally convex spaces (46A63) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We study a Majorana zero-energy state bound to a hedgehog-like point defect in a topological superconductor described by a Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG)-Dirac type effective Hamiltonian. We first give an explicit wave function of a Majorana state by solving the BdG equation directly, from which an analytical index can be obtained. Next, by calculating the corresponding topological index, we show a precise equivalence between both indices to confirm the index theorem. Finally, we apply this observation to reexamine the role of another topological invariant, i.e., the Chern number associated with the Berry curvature proposed in the study of protected zero modes along the lines of topological classification of insulators and superconductors. We show that the Chern number is equivalent to the topological index, implying that it indeed reflects the number of zero-energy states. Our theoretical model belongs to the BDI class from the viewpoint of symmetry, whereas the spatial dimension of the system is left arbitrary throughout the paper.

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