Topologically protected surface Majorana arcs and bulk Weyl fermions in ferromagnetic superconductors
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Abstract
A number of ferromagnetic superconductors have been recently discovered which are believed to be in the so-called ``equal spin pairing'' (ESP) state. In the ESP state the Cooper pairs condense forming order parameters $\Delta_{\uparrow,\uparrow}, \Delta_{\downarrow\downarrow}$, which are decoupled in the spin-sector. We show that these 3D systems generically support topologically protected surface Majorana arcs and bulk Weyl fermions as gapless excitations. Similar protected low-energy exotic quasiparticles should also appear in the recently discovered non-centrosymmteric superconductors in the presence of a Zeeman field. The protected surface arcs can be probed by angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) as well as fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopty (FT-STS) experiments.
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Authors
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Sumanta Tewari
Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
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Jay Sau
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138