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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Topological properties of finite-size heterostructures of magnetic topological insulators and superconductors

Abstract: Heterostructures of magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) and superconductors (SCs) in two-dimensional (2D) slab and one-dimensional (1D) nanoribbon geometries have been predicted to host, respectively, chiral Majorana edge states (CMESs) and Majorana bound states (MBSs). We study the topological properties of such MTI/SC heterostructures upon variation of the geometry from wide slabs to quasi-1D nanoribbon systems and as a function of the chemical potential, the magnetic doping, and the induced superconducting pairing potential. To do so, we construct effective symmetry-constrained low-energy Hamiltonians accounting for the real-space confinement. For a nanoribbon geometry with finite width and length, we observe different phases characterized by CMESs, MBSs, as well as coexisting CMESs and MBSs, as the chemical potential, the magnetic doping and/or the width are varied.
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.16520 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2404.16520v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

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From: Julian Legendre [view email]
[v1] Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:23:11 GMT (651kb,D)

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