Interorbital topological superconductivity in spin-orbit coupled superconductors with inversion symmetry breaking
Yuri Fukaya, Shun Tamura, Keiji Yada, Yukio Tanaka, Paola Gentile, Mario Cuoco
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.174522 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We study the superconducting state of multiorbital spin-orbit coupled systems in the presence of an orbitally driven inversion asymmetry assuming that the interorbital attraction is the dominant pairing channel. Although the inversion symmetry is absent, we show that superconducting states that avoid mixing of spin-triplet and spin-singlet configurations are allowed, and remarkably, spin-triplet states that are topologically nontrivial can be stabilized in a large portion of the phase diagram. The orbital-dependent spin-triplet pairing generally leads to topological superconductivity with point nodes that are protected by a nonvanishing winding number. We demonstrate that the disclosed topological phase can exhibit Lifshitz-type transitions upon different driving mechanisms and interactions, e.g., by tuning the strength of the atomic spin-orbit and inversion asymmetry couplings or by varying the doping and the amplitude of order parameter. Such distinctive signatures of the nodal phase manifest through an extraordinary reconstruction of the low-energy excitation spectra both in the bulk and at the edge of the superconductor.
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