Möbius topological superconductivity in UPt3

Youichi Yanase and Ken Shiozaki
Phys. Rev. B 95, 224514 – Published 28 June 2017

Abstract

Intensive studies for more than three decades have elucidated multiple superconducting phases and odd-parity Cooper pairs in a heavy fermion superconductor UPt3. We identify a time-reversal invariant superconducting phase of UPt3 as a recently proposed topological nonsymmorphic superconductivity. Combining the band structure of UPt3, order parameter of E2u representation allowed by P63/mmc space group symmetry, and topological classification by K theory, we demonstrate the nontrivial Z2-invariant of three-dimensional DIII class enriched by glide symmetry. Correspondingly, double Majorana cone surface states appear at the surface Brillouin zone boundary. Furthermore, we show a variety of surface states and clarify the topological protection by crystal symmetry. Majorana arcs corresponding to tunable Weyl points appear in the time-reversal symmetry broken B phase. Majorana cone protected by mirror Chern number and Majorana flat band by glide-winding number are also revealed.

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  • Received 10 March 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.224514

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Youichi Yanase1,* and Ken Shiozaki2

  • 1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

  • *yanase@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Vol. 95, Iss. 22 — 1 June 2017

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