• 文献标题:   Edge Properties and Majorana Fermions in the Proposed Chiral d-Wave Superconducting State of Doped Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BLACKSCHAFFER AM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Uppsala Univ
  • 被引频次:   43
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.197001
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the effect of edges on the intrinsic d-wave superconducting state in graphene doped close to the van Hove singularity. While the bulk is in a chiral d(x2-y2) + id(xy) state, the order parameter at any edge is enhanced and has d(x2-y2)-symmetry, with a decay length strongly increasing with weakening superconductivity. No graphene edge is pair breaking for the d(x2-y2) state, and there are no localized zero-energy edge states. We find two chiral edge modes which carry a spontaneous, but not quantized, quasiparticle current related to the zero-energy momentum. Moreover, for realistic values of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a Majorana fermion appears at the edge when tuning a Zeeman field.