Chiral superconductivity in thin films of doped Bi2Se3
Luca Chirolli
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.014505 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Recent experimental evidences point to rotation symmetry-breaking superconductivity in doped Bi2Se3, where the relevant order parameter belongs to a two-component odd-parity representation Eu of the crystal point group. The Eu channel admits two possible phases, the nematic phase, that well explains the reported rotation symmetry breaking, and the chiral phase, that breaks time-reversal symmetry. In weakly anisotropic three-dimensional (3D) systems the nematic phase is the stable one. We study the stability of the nematic phase versus the chiral phase as a function of the anisotropy of the Fermi surface and the thickness of the sample and show that by increasing the 2D character of the Fermi surface or by reducing the number of layers in thin slabs the chiral phases is favored. For the extreme 2D limit composed by a single layer of Bi2Se3 the chiral phase is always the stable one and the system hosts two chiral Majorana modes flowing at the boundary of the system.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bi2Se3 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | — | Pressure not reported | unknown |
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