Double Helix Nodal Line Superconductor

作者:Sun Xiao Qi*; Lian Biao; Zhang Shou Cheng
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2017, 119(14): 147001.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.147001

摘要

Time-reversal invariant superconductors in three dimensions may contain nodal lines in the Brillouin zone, which behave as Wilson loops of 3D momentum-space Chern-Simons theory of the Berry connection. Here we study the conditions of realizing linked nodal lines (Wilson loops), which yield a topological contribution to the thermal magnetoelectric coefficient that is given by the Chern-Simons action. We find the essential conditions are the existence of torus or higher genus Fermi surfaces and spiral spin textures. We construct such a model with two torus Fermi surfaces, where a generic spin-dependent interaction leads to double-helix-like linked nodal lines as the superconductivity is developed.

  • 出版日期2017-10-2