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一维中拓扑镜像超导与手性超导的等价性

Equivalence of topological mirror and chiral superconductivity in one dimension

Eugene Dumitrescu, Gargee Sharma, Jay D. Sau, Sumanta Tewari

AI总结:

本研究证明一维拓扑镜像超导与BDI类手性拓扑超导严格等价,指出镜像贝里相位对应BDI类手性绕数不变量,且该态属于Altland-Zirnbauer周期表中BDI类的特例,并通过两类体系验证了结论。

摘要:

近期有研究提出,幺正拓扑镜像对称性可在一维(1D)时间反演(TR)不变拓扑超导体中稳定多个零能马约拉纳费米子模。本文确立了一维“拓扑镜像超导”与BDI类手性拓扑超导之间的严格等价关系,后者同样可在一维时间反演不变拓扑超导体中稳定多对马约拉纳-克拉默斯对。该等价性证明,拓扑镜像超导可理解为BDI对称类中与时间反演对称性共存的手性超导。此外,我们发现镜像贝里相位与BDI对称类的手性绕数不变量完全一致,且该量与时间反演对称性的存在与否无关。因此,时间反演不变的拓扑镜像超导态可视为著名的自由费米子相Altland-Zirnbauer周期表中BDI对称类的一个特例。我们通过存在无节点s_±超导的一维自旋轨道耦合量子线,以及近期讨论的嵌入铅(Pb)超导体的铁磁原子(Fe)链实验体系,对上述结果进行了举例说明。

英文摘要:

Recently it has been proposed that a unitary topological mirror symmetry can stabilize multiple zero energy Majorana fermion modes in one dimensional (1D) time reversal (TR) invariant topological superconductors. Here we establish an exact equivalence between 1D "topological mirror superconductivity" and chiral topological superconductivity in BDI class which can also stabilize multiple Majorana-Kramers pairs in 1D TR-invariant topological superconductors. The equivalence proves that topological mirror superconductivity can be understood as chiral superconductivity in the BDI symmetry class co-existing with time-reversal symmetry. Furthermore, we show that the mirror Berry phase coincides with the chiral winding invariant of the BDI symmetry class, which is independent of the presence of the time-reversal symmetry. Thus, the time-reversal invariant topological mirror superconducting state may be viewed as a special case of the BDI symmetry class in the well-known Altland-Zirnbauer periodic table of free fermionic phases. We illustrate the results with the examples of 1D spin-orbit coupled quantum wires in the presence of nodeless s_{\pm} superconductivity and the recently discussed experimental system of ferromagnetic atom (Fe) chains embedded on a lead (Pb) superconductor.

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