Monday, August 6, 2012

1208.0608 (Predrag Nikolic et al.)

Pairing instabilities in topological insulator quantum wells    [PDF]

Predrag Nikolic, Zlatko Tesanovic
Topological insulator quantum wells with induced attractive interactions between electrons are candidate systems for the realization of novel vortex lattice states with time-reversal symmetry, and incompressible quantum vortex liquids with fractional excitations. We analyze the competition between different pairing channels stimulated by the superconducting proximity effect in these quantum wells, and calculate the helical triplet pairing instability that can produce the mentioned phases using perturbation theory. We discuss the phase diagram tunable by gate voltage.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0608

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