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Emergent topological superconductivity at nematic domain wall of FeSe

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arxiv 1702.03294 v2 pith:LPJ3EFEG submitted 2017-02-10 cond-mat.supr-con

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One dimensional hybrid systems play an important role in the search for topological superconductivity. Nevertheless, all one dimensional hybrid systems so far have been externally defined. Here we show that one-dimensional domain wall in a nematic superconductor can serve as an emergent hybrid system in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. As a concrete setting we study the domain wall between nematic domains in FeSe, which is well established to be a nematic superconductor. We first show on the symmetry grounds that spin-triplet pairing can be induced at the domain wall by constructing a Ginzburg-Landau theory. We then demonstrate using Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach that such nematic domain wall supports zero energy bound states which would satisfy Majorana condition. Well-known existence of these domain walls at relatively high temperatures, which can in principle be located and investigated with scanning tunneling microscopy, presents new opportunities for a search for realization of Majorana bound states.

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