arXiv · 1904.05470
Crystalline Nodal Topological Superconductivity and Bogolyubov Fermi Surfaces in Monolayer NbSe$_2$
Abstract
We present a microscopic calculation of the phase diagram of the Ising superconductor NbSe$_{2}$ in presence of both in-plane magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Repulsive interactions lead to two distinct instabilities, in singlet- and triplet- interaction channels. While we recover the previously predicted nodal topological superconducting state in the absence of Rashba SOC at large magnetic field with six pairs of nodes along \(Γ\)-\(M\) lines, a finite Rashba SOC breaks the symmetry that protects these nodes and therefore generally lifts them, resulting in a topologically trivial phase. There is an exception when the field is applied along one of the three $Γ$-$K$ lines, however. In that case, a single mirror symmetry remains that can protect two pairs of nodes out of the original six, resulting in a \emph{crystalline} topological superconducting phase. Depending on the Cooper pairs' center-of-mass momentum, this superconducting state displays either Bogolyubov Fermi surfaces or point nodes. Moreover, a chiral topological superconducting phase with Chern number of 6 is realized in the regime of large Rashba SOC and dominant triplet interactions, spontaneously breaking time-reversal symmetry.
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Daniel Shaffer, Jian Kang, F. J. Burnell, Rafael M. Fernandes. 2020-05-12. Crystalline Nodal Topological Superconductivity and Bogolyubov Fermi Surfaces in Monolayer NbSe$_2$. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.224503
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