Published May 6, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Noncrystalline topological superconductors

  • 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 (T) 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 T-odd p+ip 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

Optional Information

Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
DMR-2238679
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Funding organization
Weizmann Institute of Science; National Science Foundation