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

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.09.003zbMATH Open1229.82168arXiv1107.5629OpenAlexW1984161618MaRDI QIDQ659364FDOQ659364

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

Publication date: 18 January 2012

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

topological invariantindex theoremBerry phaseDirac HamiltonianBogoliubov-de Gennes equationMajorana bound state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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