Engineering Majorana Kramers Pairs In Synthetic High Spin Chern Insulators

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Main Authors: Hung, Yi-Chun, Hsu, Chen-Hsuan, Bansil, Arun
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author Hung, Yi-Chun
Hsu, Chen-Hsuan
Bansil, Arun
author_facet Hung, Yi-Chun
Hsu, Chen-Hsuan
Bansil, Arun
contents High spin-Chern-number topological phases provide a promising low-dimensional platform for realizing double-helical edge states. In this letter, we show how these edge states can host a variety of phases driven by electron interaction effects, including multi-channel helical Luttinger liquid, spin density wave, superconducting phases, and a new type of $π$-junction analog of the latter two, where the transitions between the phases can be controlled. The superconducting phase in the interacting system is shown to be adiabatically connected to a time-reversal-symmetric topological superconductor in the non-interacting DIII class. This connection stabilizes Majorana Kramers pairs as domain wall states at the interface between the superconducting and $π$-spin-density wave phases, with the latter exhibiting a time-reversal-symmetric spin-density wave phase. We discuss the possibility of realizing our proposed scheme for generating Majorana Kramers pairs in a cold-atom based platform with existing techniques, and how it could offer potential advantages over other approaches.
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spellingShingle Engineering Majorana Kramers Pairs In Synthetic High Spin Chern Insulators
Hung, Yi-Chun
Hsu, Chen-Hsuan
Bansil, Arun
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
High spin-Chern-number topological phases provide a promising low-dimensional platform for realizing double-helical edge states. In this letter, we show how these edge states can host a variety of phases driven by electron interaction effects, including multi-channel helical Luttinger liquid, spin density wave, superconducting phases, and a new type of $π$-junction analog of the latter two, where the transitions between the phases can be controlled. The superconducting phase in the interacting system is shown to be adiabatically connected to a time-reversal-symmetric topological superconductor in the non-interacting DIII class. This connection stabilizes Majorana Kramers pairs as domain wall states at the interface between the superconducting and $π$-spin-density wave phases, with the latter exhibiting a time-reversal-symmetric spin-density wave phase. We discuss the possibility of realizing our proposed scheme for generating Majorana Kramers pairs in a cold-atom based platform with existing techniques, and how it could offer potential advantages over other approaches.
title Engineering Majorana Kramers Pairs In Synthetic High Spin Chern Insulators
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08632