Inducing Z2 topology in twisted nodal superconductors

Abstract

Twisted nodal superconductors have been shown to exhibit chiral topological superconductivity under broken time-reversal symmetry. Here we show how a time-reversal preserving topological superconductivity can be induced in nodal triplet superconductor multilayers. For a bilayer system, the application of a Josephson spin current in triplet superconductors induces a nonzero spin Chern number per node in momentum space. However, we show that stabilizing a nontrivial global Z2 invariant requires an odd number of layers. As a specific example, we consider trilayers with three forms of twist: chiral, alternating, and single-layer. For chiral and single-layer case, we find that a gap opening in the dispersion leads to a nontrivial Z2 topological invariant. For single-layer twists, we show how this invariant is nontrivial when extended to an arbitrary odd number of layers.

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