Power-Law Temperature Dependence of the Penetration Depth in a Topological Superconductor Due to Surface States.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
14 Feb 2020
Historique:
received: 01 06 2019
accepted: 27 01 2020
entrez: 29 2 2020
pubmed: 29 2 2020
medline: 29 2 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We study the temperature dependence of the magnetic penetration depth in a 3D topological superconductor (TSC), incorporating the paramagnetic current due to the surface states. A TSC is predicted to host a gapless 2D surface Majorana fluid. In addition to the bulk-dominated London response, we identify a T^{3} power-law-in-temperature contribution from the surface, valid in the low-temperature limit. Our system is fully gapped in the bulk, and should be compared to bulk nodal superconductivity, which also exhibits power-law behavior. Power-law temperature dependence of the penetration depth can be one indicator of topological superconductivity.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32109094
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.067001
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

067001

Auteurs

Tsz Chun Wu (TC)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.

Hridis K Pal (HK)

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India.

Pavan Hosur (P)

Texas Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.

Matthew S Foster (MS)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.

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