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arxiv: 1110.4110 · v3 · pith:GFWG3MISnew · submitted 2011-10-18 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con

Topologically protected surface Majorana arcs and bulk Weyl fermions in ferromagnetic superconductors

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A number of ferromagnetic superconductors have been recently discovered which are believed to be in the so-called "equal spin pairing" (ESP) state. In the ESP state the Cooper pairs condense forming order parameters $\Delta_{\uparrow\uparrow}, \Delta_{\downarrow\downarrow}$ which are decoupled in the spin-sector. We show that these three-dimensional systems should generically support topologically protected surface Majorana arcs and bulk Weyl fermions as gapless excitations. Similar protected low-energy exotic quasiparticles should also appear in the recently discovered non-centrosymmteric superconductors in the presence of a Zeeman field. The protected surface arcs can be probed by angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) as well as scanning tunneling microscope (STM) experiments.

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