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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: Topological Quantum Criticality in Superfluids and Superconductors: Surface criticality, Thermal properties, and Lifshitz Majorana fields

Authors: Fan Yang, Fei Zhou
Abstract: Time reversal invariant (TRI) topological superfluids (TSFs) and topological superconductors (TSCs) are robust symmetry protected gapped topological states. In this article, we study the evolution of these topological states in the presence of time reversal symmetry breaking (TRB) fields and/or sufficiently large TRI fields. Physically, one of the realizations of TRB fields can be internal spin exchange fields due to background magnetic ordering. We find that the fully gapped TSFs and TSCs are generically separated from other nodal states by various zero temperature quantum critical points that are characterized by generalized quantum Lifshitz fields with distinct scaling properties. These emergent Lifshitz fields also define finite temperature properties in quantum critical regimes. Moreover, for a certain subset of TRB fields, there exist a precursor to bulk transitions, where surface states can also exhibit quantum critical behavior near zero fields. The possibility for a fully gapped TSF/TSC to smoothly crossover into a topologically trivial state without a phase transition is also examined.
Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. B 103, 205126 (2021)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.205126
Cite as: arXiv:2012.11143 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2012.11143v3 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Fan Yang [view email]
[v1] Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:48:42 GMT (186kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:21:33 GMT (189kb,D)
[v3] Mon, 17 May 2021 19:18:32 GMT (189kb,D)

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