Characterizing topological order in superconducting systems
M. Cristina Diamantini, Pasquale Sodano
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.144515 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Two established frameworks account for the onset of a gap in a superconducting system: one is based on spontaneous symmetry breaking via the Anderson-Higgs-Kibble mechanism and the other is based on the recently developed paradigm of topological order. We show that, on manifolds with non trivial topology, both mechanisms yield a degeneracy of the ground state arising only from the incompressibility induced by the presence of a gap. We compute the topological entanglement entropy of a topological superconductor and argue that its measure allows to distinguish between the two mechanisms of generating a superconducting gap.
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