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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 30: Superconductivity: Poster Session

TT 30.9: Poster

Thursday, September 8, 2022, 15:00–18:00, P1

Majorana flat bands at structured surfaces of nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors — •Clara Johanna Lapp and Carsten Timm — Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Surfaces of nodal noncentrosymmetric superconductors can host flat bands of Majorana modes, which provide a promising platform for quantum computation if one can find methods for manipulating localized Majorana wave packets. We study the fate of such flat bands when part of the surface is subjected to an exchange field induced by a ferromagnetic insulator. Exact diagonalization is used to find the eigenstates and eigenenergies of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian of a model system, for which an exchange field is applied along a strip on the surface of a slab. Moreover, we discuss a setup with a small exchange field applied to the previously field-free strip with the goal of introducing a linear dispersion. By switching this dispersion on and off, a wave packet could be moved in a certain direction. We find that in our model system, a linear dispersion can indeed be achieved. The qualitative features of this dispersion can be predicted from the momentum-dependent spin polarization of the field-free surface.