Majorana Modes in Time-Reversal Invariant s-Wave Topological Superconductors
Shusa Deng, Lorenza Viola, Gerardo Ortiz
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.036803 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
We present a time-reversal invariant s-wave superconductor supporting Majorana edge modes. The multiband character of the model together with spin-orbit coupling are key to realizing such a topological superconductor. We characterize the topological phase diagram by using a partial Chern number sum, and show that the latter is physically related to the parity of the fermion number of the time-reversal invariant modes. By taking the self-consistency constraint on the s-wave pairing gap into account, we also establish the possibility of a direct topological superconductor-to-topological insulator quantum phase transition.
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