Topological superconductivity in Fibonacci quasicrystals
Aksel Kobiałka, Oladunjoye A. Awoga, Martin Leijnse, Tadeusz Domański, Patric Holmvall, Annica M. Black-Schaffer
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.134508 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We investigate the properties of a Fibonacci quasicrystal (QC) arrangement of a one-dimensional topological superconductor, such as a magnetic atom chain deposited on a superconducting surface. We uncover a general mutually exclusive competition between the QC properties and the topological superconducting phase with Majorana bound states (MBS): there are no MBS inside the QC gaps and the MBS never behave as QC subgap states and, likewise, no critical or winding QC subgap states exist inside the topological superconducting gaps. Surprisingly, despite this competition, we find that the QC is still highly beneficial for realizing topological superconductivity with MBS. It both leads to additional large nontrivial regions with MBS in parameter space, that are topologically trivial in crystalline systems, and increases the topological gap protecting the MBS. We also find that shorter approximants of the Fibonacci QC display the largest benefits. As a consequence, our results promote QCs, and especially their short approximants, as an appealing platform for improved experimental possibilities to realize MBS as well as generally highlight the fundamental interplay between different topologies.
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