Noncrystalline topological superconductors
Creators
- 1. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
- 2. Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA
Description
Topological insulators, featuring bulk-boundary correspondence, have been realized on a large number of noncrystalline materials, among which amorphous network, quasicrystals, and fractal lattices are the most prominent ones. By contrast, topological superconductors beyond the realm of quantum crystals are yet to be harnessed, as their nucleation takes place around a well-defined Fermi surface with a Fermi momentum, the existence of which rests on the underlying translational symmetry. Here we identify a family of noncrystalline Dirac materials, devoid of time-reversal () and translational symmetries, on which a suitable local or on-site pairing yields topological superconductors. We showcase this outcome on all the abovementioned noncrystalline platforms embedded in a two-dimensional flat space. The resulting noncrystalline topological superconductors possess quantized topological invariants (Bott index and local Chern marker) and harbor robust one-dimensional Majorana edge modes, analogs of -odd pairing in noncrystalline materials.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.174512;
- arXiv
- arXiv:2207.02203;
- Crossref Funder ID
- 10.13039/501100001735; 10.13039/100000001;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review B
- Journal Volume
- 109
- Journal Issue
- 17
- Journal Page Range
- 8 pgs.
- ISSN
- 1550-235X
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMORPHOUS STATE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; DIRAC EQUATION; FERMI LEVEL; FRACTALS; MAJORANA FERMIONS; MAJORANA SPINORS; MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; PAIRING INTERACTIONS; QUANTIZATION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SUPERCONDUCTORS; SYMMETRY; TOPOLOGY
- Descriptors DEC
- CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ENERGY LEVELS; EQUATIONS; FERMIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPINORS; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- ©2024 American Physical Society
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- DMR-2238679
- Notes
- Record automatically processed
- Funding organization
- Weizmann Institute of Science; National Science Foundation