Majorana Flat Bands in the Vortex Line of Superconducting Weyl Semimetals

2024/12/31 by Zhang, Zhicheng, Ma, Kou-Han
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.00410

Abstract

We report the emergence of Majorana flat bands (MFBs) in the vortex line of superconducting (SC) time-reversal-symmetry-breaking Weyl semimetals. By considering a Weyl semimetal as a stack of Chern insulators with varying Chern numbers along one (z) direction, we decompose the vortex bound states of SC Weyl semimetals into those of k_z-resolved SC Chern insulators. Through analytical and numerical calculations of the topological phase diagram of the SC Chern insulators, we explain the appearance of MFBs and determine the exact boundaries of them. Notably, the tuning of chemical potential or pairing strength results in the MFBs along the entire k_z axis. To characterize the MFBs, we propose a k_z-resolved Z₂ Chern-Simons invariant as the topological indicator. Finally, we take an attractive Hubbard interaction into consideration, and the aforementioned SC Weyl semimetal with BCS pairing can be realized under appropriate parameters.

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