PIRSA:19090064

Inversion-protected higher-order topological superconductivity in monolayer WTe2

APA

Hsu, Y. (2019). Inversion-protected higher-order topological superconductivity in monolayer WTe2. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/19090064

MLA

Hsu, Yi-Ting. Inversion-protected higher-order topological superconductivity in monolayer WTe2. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sep. 10, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19090064

BibTex

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:19090064,
            doi = {10.48660/19090064},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19090064},
            author = {Hsu, Yi-Ting},
            keywords = {Quantum Matter},
            language = {en},
            title = {Inversion-protected higher-order topological superconductivity in monolayer WTe2},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2019},
            month = {sep},
            note = {PIRSA:19090064 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/19090064}}
          }
          

Yi-Ting Hsu University of Maryland, College Park

Talk numberPIRSA:19090064
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Abstract

Monolayer WTe2, an inversion-symmetric transition metal dichalcogenide, has recently been established as a quantum spin Hall insulator and found superconducting upon gating. Here we show that generally a superconducting inversion-symmetric quantum spin Hall material whose normal state is ``effectively gapped", such as gated monolayer WTe2, can be an inversion-protected topological crystalline superconductor featuring ``higher-order topology" if the superconductivity is parity-odd. We explicitly demonstrate how the bulk-boundary correspondence naturally emerges in such type of superconductors within a two-dimensional minimal model. We then study the pairing symmetry of superconducting WTe2 with a microscopic model, and find two types of self-consistently obtained exotic pairings. First is an odd-parity pairing that possesses a nontrivial bulk symmetry indicator and hosts two Majorana Kramers pairs localizing at opposite corners. Even when the conventional pairing is energetically favored, we find that an intermediate in-plane field exceeding the Pauli limit stabilizes an equal-spin pairing aligning with the field. Our findings suggest gated monolayer WTe2 is a playground for exotic odd-parity superconductivity, and possibly the first material realization for inversion-protected Majorana corner modes without utilizing proximity effect.