Band twisting and resilience to disorder in long-range topological superconductors
T. O. Puel, O. Viyuela
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.014508 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Planar topological superconductors with power-law-decaying pairing display different kinds of topological phase transitions where quasiparticles dubbed nonlocal-massive Dirac fermions emerge. These exotic particles form through long-range interactions between distant Majorana modes at the boundary of the system. We show how these propagating-massive Dirac fermions neither mix with bulk states nor Anderson-localize up to large amounts of static disorder despite having finite energy. Analyzing the density of states (DOS) and the band spectrum of the long-range topological superconductor, we identify the formation of an edge gap and a surprising double-peak structure in the DOS which can be linked to a twisting of energy bands with nontrivial topology. Our findings are amenable to experimental verification in the near-future using atom arrays on conventional superconductors, planar Josephson junctions on two-dimensional electron gases, and Floquet driving of topological superconductors.
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