Published March 4, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Two-electron photoemission spectroscopy in topological superconductors

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
  • 3. Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

Description

We demonstrate that the photoelectron counting rate, P(2), measured in two-electron coincidence spectroscopy experiments, provides insight into the nature of topological superconductivity. In particular, we show that the spin dependence of P(2) allows one to detect superconducting spin-triplet correlations that are induced in a topological superconductor even in the absence of an associated triplet superconducting order parameter. This ability to detect spin-triplet correlations allows one to distinguish between two recently proposed scenarios for the microscopic origin of topological superconductivity in FeSe0.45Te0.55. Finally, we show that P(2) exhibits a characteristic intensity maximum that can be employed to detect topological phase transitions.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.109.094503;
arXiv
arXiv:2210.11738;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100017535; 10.13039/100000015; 10.13039/100006132; 10.13039/100006151; 10.13039/100000936;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
9 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
DE-SC0021238; GBMF11069
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Funding organization
Energy Frontier Research Centers; U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science; Basic Energy Sciences; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation