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Condensed Matter Seminar – Daniel Agterberg (Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Date January 7, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Topologically protected Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces

It is commonly believed that, in the absence of disorder or an external magnetic field, there are three possible types of superconducting excitation gaps: The gap is nodeless, it has point nodes, or it has line nodes. Here, we show that, for an even-parity nodal superconducting state which spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry, the low-energy excitation spectrum generally does not belong to any of these categories; instead, it has extended Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces. These Fermi surfaces are topologically protected from being gapped by a non-trivial Z2 invariant. In this talk, I will discuss the physical origin, topological protection, and energetic stability of these Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces, using chiral superconductivity in j=3/2 fermions as a representative example.

Host: Peter Hirschfeld

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Date:
January 7, 2019
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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2205 NPB