Wednesday, December 19, 2012

1212.4232 (Fan Zhang et al.)

Time Reversal Invariant Topological Superconductivity and Majorana
Kramers Pairs
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Fan Zhang, C. L. Kane, E. J. Mele
We propose a feasible route to engineer one and two dimensional time reversal invariant (TRI) topological superconductors (SC) via proximity effects between nodeless extended s wave iron-based SC and semiconductors with large Rashba spin-orbit interactions. At the boundary of a TRI topological SC, there emerges a Kramers pair of Majorana edge (bound) states. For a Josephson pi-junction we predict a Majorana quartet that is protected by mirror symmetry and leads to a mirror fractional Josephson effect. We analyze the evolution of Majorana pair in Zeeman fields, as the SC undergoes a symmetry class change as well as topological phase transitions, providing an experimental signature in tunneling spectroscopy. We briefly discuss the realization of this mechanism in candidate materials and the possibility of using s and d wave SC and weak topological insulators.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4232

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