Second-order bulk-boundary correspondence in rotationally symmetric topological superconductors from stacked Dirac Hamiltonians
Elis Roberts, Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.155133 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors host zero-dimensional Majorana bound states at their boundaries. In this work, focusing on rotation-invariant crystalline topological superconductors, we establish a bulk-boundary correspondence linking the presence of such Majorana bound states to bulk topological invariants introduced by Benalcazar et al. [Phys. Rev. B 89, 224503 (2014)]. We thus establish when a topological crystalline superconductor protected by rotational symmetry displays second-order topological superconductivity. Our approach is based on stacked Dirac Hamiltonians, using which we relate transitions between topological phases to the transformation properties between adjacent gapped boundaries. We find that, in addition to the bulk rotational invariants, the presence of Majorana boundary bound states in a given geometry depends on the interplay between weak topological invariants and the location of the rotation center relative to the lattice. We provide numerical examples for our predictions and discuss possible extensions of our approach.
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