Chiral Topological Superconductors Enhanced by Long-Range Interactions

Oscar Viyuela, Liang Fu, and Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017001 – Published 5 January 2018

Abstract

We study the phase diagram and edge states of a two-dimensional p-wave superconductor with long-range hopping and pairing amplitudes. New topological phases and quasiparticles different from the usual short-range model are obtained. When both hopping and pairing terms decay with the same exponent, one of the topological chiral phases with propagating Majorana edge states gets significantly enhanced by long-range couplings. On the other hand, when the long-range pairing amplitude decays more slowly than the hopping, we discover new topological phases where propagating Majorana fermions at each edge pair nonlocally and become gapped even in the thermodynamic limit. Remarkably, these nonlocal edge states are still robust, remain separated from the bulk, and are localized at both edges at the same time. The inclusion of long-range effects is potentially applicable to recent experiments with magnetic impurities and islands in 2D superconductors.

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  • Received 18 July 2017
  • Revised 13 October 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.017001

© 2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

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Oscar Viyuela1,2,3, Liang Fu1, and Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado2

  • 1Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 2Departamento de Física Teórica I, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
  • 3Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02318, USA

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Vol. 120, Iss. 1 — 5 January 2018

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