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arxiv: 1802.09204 · v3 · pith:TCQJUDYLnew · submitted 2018-02-26 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.mes-hall

Signatures of surface Majorana modes in the magnetic response of topological superconductors

classification ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mes-hall
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We study the magnetic susceptibility of a two-dimensional cone of Majorana modes localised at the surface of a three-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductor belonging to class DIII. A field parallel to the surface tilts the surface Majorana cone along the supercurrent direction. For fields larger than a critical threshold field $H^*$, $H>H^*$, a transition from type I to type II Dirac cone occurs and a finite current carried by the Majorana modes start to flow, leading to an additional diamagnetic contribution to the surface magnetization. On a curved surface interband transitions are promoted by the Majorana spin connection that couples to the external field, giving rise to a finite frequency magnetic susceptibility.

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