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超导分数拓扑相中扭曲缺陷处的费米子宇称翻转和Majorana束缚态

Fermion Parity Flips and Majorana Bound States at twist defects in Superconducting Fractional Topological Phases

Mayukh Nilay Khan, Jeffrey C. Y. Teo, Taylor L. Hughes, Smitha Vishveshwara

摘要:

在本文中,我们考虑一个阿贝尔拓扑有序态(TO)的层状异质结构,如分数陈绝缘体/量子霍尔态与s波超导体,以探讨非阿贝尔缺陷的存在。为了发现这样的缺陷,我们必须增加原来的TO由一个$\mathbb{Z}_2$规范理论部门来自s波SC。我们首先确定各种各样的分数量子霍尔或分数陈绝缘体异质结构的扩展TO。我们证明了存在一个一般的任意子置换对称性(AS),存在于任何费米子阿贝尔TO状态与s波超导体接触。物理上,这种排列对应于在奇数通量涡旋(以$h/2e$为单位)中添加一个费米子,因为它们围绕相关的拓扑(扭曲)缺陷行进。因此,我们称之为费米子宇称翻转AS。我们认为扭曲缺陷突变任意子根据费米子奇偶翻转对称性,并表明它们可以实现在域壁之间的不同的间隙边缘或界面的TO超导状态。我们分析了这种缺陷的性质,并表明,费米子宇称翻转扭曲缺陷总是与马约拉纳零模。我们的形式主义也再现已知的结果,如Majorana/parafermionic束缚态在超导畴壁的拓扑/分数陈绝缘体时,扭曲缺陷的电荷共轭对称性的基础上构建。最后,我们简要地描述了更奇异的扭曲液相通过测量AS扭曲缺陷成为deconfined任意激发。

英文摘要:

In this paper we consider a layered heterostructure of an Abelian topologically ordered state (TO), such as a fractional Chern insulator/quantum Hall state with an s-wave superconductor in order to explore the existence of non-Abelian defects. In order to uncover such defects we must augment the original TO by a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge theory sector coming from the s-wave SC. We first determine the extended TO for a wide variety of fractional quantum Hall or fractional Chern insulator heterostructures. We prove the existence of a general anyon permutation symmetry (AS) that exists in any fermionic Abelian TO state in contact with an s-wave superconductor. Physically this permutation corresponds to adding a fermion to an odd flux vortices (in units of $h/2e$) as they travel around the associated topological (twist) defect. As such, we call it a fermion parity flip AS. We consider twist defects which mutate anyons according to the fermion parity flip symmetry and show that they can be realized at domain walls between distinct gapped edges or interfaces of the TO superconducting state. We analyze the properties of such defects and show that fermion parity flip twist defects are always associated with Majorana zero modes. Our formalism also reproduces known results such as Majorana/parafermionic bound states at superconducting domain walls of topological/Fractional Chern insulators when twist defects are constructed based on charge conjugation symmetry. Finally, we briefly describe more exotic twist liquid phases obtained by gauging the AS where the twist defects become deconfined anyonic excitations.

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