Coupled wire model of symmetric Majorana surfaces of topological superconductors
Coupled wire model of symmetric Majorana surfaces of topological superconductors
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拓扑超导体对称马约拉纳面的耦合线模型
DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.94.165142
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
J. C. Teo
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作者:
S. Sahoo;Zhao Zhang;J. C. Teo
Classification of symmetry-protected topological phases such as the topological superconductor (TSC) is well known in the free fermion picture. Recently, it was observed that including many-body interactions that preserves symmetry gives rise to novel surface phases and breaks down the classification scheme. A complete understanding of the microscopic theory for such phases is missing. This paper is an attempt to understand the interaction that gives rise to these phases in the case of the three-dimensional TSC. The authors build a coupled wire model Hamiltonian for the gapless surface and show that the addition of a time-reversal symmetric two-body interaction, constructed in this paper, opens an energy gap in the spectrum. They also show this gapped surface phase is topologically nontrivial and is classified differently compared to the noninteracting case.