A reformulation of tight-binding models that shifts orbital symmetry into Bloch phase factors is applied to predict coexisting s± and s_z2 pairing in Lu2Fe3Si5, but the framework reduces to standard tight-binding and leaves Wannier obstructions unresolved.
Pairing Obstructions in Topological Superconductors
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The modern understanding of topological insulators is based on Wannier obstructions in position space. Motivated by this insight, we study topological superconductors from a position-space perspective. For a one-dimensional superconductor, we show that the wave function of an individual Cooper pair decays exponentially with separation in the trivial phase and polynomially in the topological phase. For the position-space Majorana representation, we show that the topological phase is characterized by a nonzero Majorana polarization, which captures an irremovable and quantized separation of Majorana Wannier centers from the atomic positions. We apply our results to diagnose second-order topological superconducting phases in two dimensions. Our work establishes a vantage point for the generalization of Topological Quantum Chemistry to superconductivity.
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Phase-Space Approach to Wannier Pairing and Bogoliubov Orbitals in Square-Octagon Lattices
A reformulation of tight-binding models that shifts orbital symmetry into Bloch phase factors is applied to predict coexisting s± and s_z2 pairing in Lu2Fe3Si5, but the framework reduces to standard tight-binding and leaves Wannier obstructions unresolved.