Magnetic manipulation of topological states in p-wave superconductors

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  • Maria Teresa Mercaldo
  • Mario Cuoco
  • Panagiotis Kotetes

Substantial experimental investigation has provided evidence for spin-triplet pairing in diverse classes of materials and in a variety of artificial heterostructures. One of the fundamental challenges in this framework is how to manipulate the topological behavior of p-wave superconductors (PSC). In this work we investigate the magnetic field response of one-dimensional (1d) PSCs and we focus on the relation between the structure of the Cooper pair spin-configuration and the occurrence of topological phases with an enhanced number N of Majorana fermions per edge. The topological phase diagram, consisting of phases harboring Majorana modes, becomes significantly modified when one tunes the strength of the applied field, the direction of the d-vector and allows for long range hopping amplitudes in the 1d PSC. We find transitions between phases with different number N of Majorana fermions per edge and we show how they can be both induced by a variation of the hopping strength and a spin rotation of d.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPhysica B: Condensed Matter
Vol/bind536
Sider (fra-til)730-733
Antal sider4
ISSN0921-4526
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2018

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