Bulk Bogoliubov Fermi arcs in non-Hermitian superconducting systems

Jorge Cayao; Annica M. Black-Schaffer

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.104515

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Bulk Bogoliubov Fermi arcs in non-Hermitian superconducting systems

Jorge Cayao, Annica M. Black-Schaffer

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.104515 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We consider a non-Hermitian superconducting system by coupling a conventional superconductor to a ferromagnet lead and demonstrate the emergence of exceptional points when an external Zeeman field is applied. We discover that, depending on the non-Hermiticity and the Zeeman field, the exceptional points mark the ends of lines with zero real energy, thus giving rise to topologically protected and highly tunable bulk Fermi arcs, which we coin bulk Bogoliubov Fermi arcs due to their superconducting nature. We show that these bulk Bogoliubov Fermi arcs are the non-Hermitian counterparts of the Hermitian topological phase transition but are much more prevalent and also experimentally detectable through large spectral signatures.