Dirac and Weyl superconductors in three dimensions

We introduce the concept of three-dimensional Dirac (Weyl) superconductors (SC), which have protected bulk fourfold (twofold) nodal points and surface Majorana arcs at zero energy. We provide a sufficient criterion for realizing them in centrosymmetric SCs with odd-parity pairing and mirror symmetry...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2014-07, Vol.113 (4), p.046401-046401, Article 046401
Hauptverfasser: Yang, Shengyuan A, Pan, Hui, Zhang, Fan
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Zusammenfassung:We introduce the concept of three-dimensional Dirac (Weyl) superconductors (SC), which have protected bulk fourfold (twofold) nodal points and surface Majorana arcs at zero energy. We provide a sufficient criterion for realizing them in centrosymmetric SCs with odd-parity pairing and mirror symmetry. Pairs of Dirac nodes appear in a mirror-invariant plane when the mirror winding number is nontrivial. Breaking mirror symmetry may gap Dirac nodes producing a topological SC. Each Dirac node evolves to a nodal ring when inversion-gauge symmetry is broken, whereas it splits into a pair of Weyl nodes when, and only when, time-reversal symmetry is broken.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.046401