2017/09/30 by Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Lucile Savary +3 · 4 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials #Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties #Pairing #Quasiparticle #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Topological entropy in physics #Topological order #Topological quantum number #Topology (electrical circuits) #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevx.8.011029
published as Phys. Rev. X 8, 011029 (2018) · Updated and revised v2 (accepted version, Jan 19); 29 pages; 1 figure; 6 appendices
openalex created_date 2017/09/25 · arxiv created 2018/01/22 · openalex publication_date 2018/02/26 · arxiv updated 2018/03/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
A new theoretical analysis provides a classification for the pairing states of spin-3/2 quasiparticles in bismuth-based half-Heusler materials, which show signatures of unconventional and possibly topological superconductivity.