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Refined symmetry indicators for topological superconductors in all space groups

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Abstract

Topological superconductors are exotic phases of matter featuring robust surface states that could be leveraged for topological quantum computation. A useful guiding principle for the search of topological superconductors is to relate the topological invariants with the behavior of the pairing order parameter on the normal-state Fermi surfaces. The existing formulas, however, become inadequate for the prediction of the recently proposed classes of topological crystalline superconductors.
In this work, we advance the theory of symmetry indicators for topological (crystalline) superconductors to cover all space groups. Our main result is the exhaustive computation of the indicator groups for superconductors under a variety of symmetry settings.

Ref: S. Ono, H. C. Po, and H. Watanabe, arXiv:1909.09634

Presenters

  • Seishiro Ono

    Univ of Tokyo

Authors

  • Seishiro Ono

    Univ of Tokyo

  • Hoi Chun Po

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Department of Physics, MIT, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Haruki Watanabe

    Univ of Tokyo