Surface transport coefficients for three-dimensional topological superconductors

ORAL

Abstract

We argue that surface spin and thermal conductivities of three-dimensional topological superconductors are universal and topologically-quantized at low temperature. For a bulk winding number $\nu$, there are $|\nu|$ ``colors'' of surface Majorana fermions. Localization corrections to surface transport coefficients vanish due to time-reversal symmetry (TRS). We argue that Altshuler-Aronov interaction corrections vanish because TRS forbids color or spin Friedel oscillations. We confirm this within a perturbative expansion in the interactions, and to lowest order in a large-$|\nu|$ expansion. We suggest that 3D topological superconductors are a closer analog of the 2D quantum Hall effect than 3D topological insulators.

Authors

  • Hong-Yi Xie

    Rice Univ

  • Yang-Zhi Chou

    Rice Univ

  • Matthew Foster

    Rice Univ