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arxiv: 2511.04263 · v4 · pith:URKRVVGPnew · submitted 2025-11-06 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.mes-hall

Spin responses of a disordered helical superconducting edge under Zeeman field

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keywords helical edge statesdisorderZeeman fieldsuperconductivityLuttinger liquidrenormalization groupspin conductancetopological insulator
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Zeeman field amplifies superconducting gap in attractive regime and stabilizes disorder in repulsive regime on helical edges.

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The paper investigates how disorder influences charge, spin, and superconducting correlations on the helical edge of a 2D topological insulator when a Zeeman field and superconductivity are also present. Through bosonization and renormalization-group analysis, it demonstrates that the Zeeman field governs the competition between these effects depending on the interaction regime. In attractive interactions the field strengthens the superconducting gap, while in repulsive interactions it prolongs the regime where disorder remains influential. Disorder itself produces logarithmic suppression of transverse density-wave correlations yet supplies positive logarithmic corrections that reinforce superconducting pair correlations, which in turn alters the scaling of spin conductance.

Core claim

The central claim is that the Zeeman field controls the competition between superconductivity and impurity scattering on the helical edge: it amplifies the superconducting gap when interactions are attractive and stabilizes impurity effects by keeping the system longer in the disorder-relevant regime when interactions are repulsive. Disorder induces logarithmic suppression of transverse density-wave correlations while simultaneously introducing positive logarithmic corrections that enhance superconducting pair correlations and their stability. These modifications directly change the scaling of spin conductance and furnish experimentally accessible signatures of the disorder-superconductivity

What carries the argument

Bosonized Luttinger-liquid model of the helical edge whose couplings are evolved by renormalization-group equations that include Zeeman, superconducting, and disorder terms.

If this is right

  • Increasing Zeeman field strength amplifies the superconducting gap in the attractive interaction regime.
  • In the repulsive regime the Zeeman field extends the range where disorder remains relevant.
  • Disorder produces logarithmic suppression of transverse density-wave correlations.
  • Disorder supplies positive logarithmic corrections that enhance superconducting pair correlations.
  • The resulting changes modify the scaling of spin conductance in measurable ways.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • External magnetic fields could serve as a practical knob for tuning edge-state transport in topological devices.
  • Analogous logarithmic corrections may appear in other one-dimensional systems with competing interactions.
  • Temperature-dependent conductance measurements could isolate the predicted logarithmic terms from power-law contributions.

Load-bearing premise

The helical edge states remain accurately described by a one-dimensional bosonized Luttinger-liquid model even after superconductivity, Zeeman field, and disorder are added, so renormalization-group scaling captures the dominant behavior without higher-order corrections becoming essential.

What would settle it

Measure spin conductance versus Zeeman-field strength and disorder amplitude in a real topological-insulator edge device to check whether the conductance follows the predicted regime-dependent amplification or stabilization and the logarithmic corrections to pair correlations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.04263 by Mir Vahid Hosseini, Zeinab Bakhshipour.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. (Color online) Schematic of a superconducting PMH [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. (Color online) The long-range spin density wave in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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We investigate analytically and numerically the effects of disorder on the helical edge of the 2D topological insulator in the presence of the Zeeman field and superconductivity. Employing bosonization and a renormalization-group analysis, we study how impurity potentials modify charge- and spin-density wave correlations as well as superconducting pair correlations. Our results reveal that the Zeeman field controls the competition: in the attractive regime, it amplifies the superconducting gap, while in the repulsive regime, it stabilizes impurity effects by keeping the system longer in the relevant regime for disorder. We also find that disorder induces logarithmic suppression of transverse density-wave correlations, while at the same time introducing positive logarithmic corrections that enhance superconducting pair correlations and contribute to their stability. These effects directly modify the scaling of spin conductance, providing experimentally accessible signatures of the interplay between disorder and superconductivity in topological edge channels.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper investigates the effects of disorder on the helical edge of a 2D topological insulator in the presence of a Zeeman field and superconductivity. Employing bosonization and renormalization-group (RG) analysis supplemented by numerical results, it claims that the Zeeman field controls the competition between superconductivity and disorder: amplifying the superconducting gap in the attractive regime while stabilizing impurity effects in the repulsive regime. Disorder is reported to induce logarithmic suppression of transverse density-wave correlations alongside positive logarithmic corrections that enhance superconducting pair correlations, with direct consequences for the scaling of spin conductance.

Significance. If the results hold, the work provides concrete predictions for how Zeeman tuning and disorder interplay in topological edge channels, yielding experimentally accessible signatures in spin conductance. The combination of analytical RG flows with numerical cross-checks is a strength that supports falsifiable scaling statements. The findings extend standard Luttinger-liquid treatments of helical edges to the simultaneous presence of pairing, Zeeman, and random potentials.

major comments (2)
  1. [Bosonization and RG analysis section] The central RG analysis rests on the assumption that the helical edge remains a single-mode Luttinger liquid under the simultaneous inclusion of Zeeman, superconducting cosine, and disorder terms. The manuscript does not explicitly demonstrate that no additional relevant operators are generated that would renormalize K or invalidate the lowest-order flow equations before the disorder or pairing scales are reached; this assumption is load-bearing for the claimed sign of the logarithmic corrections and the Zeeman-controlled competition.
  2. [Results on correlations and conductance] The statements on logarithmic suppression of transverse density-wave correlations and positive corrections to pair correlations (abstract and results) require explicit derivation of the scaling dimensions or flow equations to confirm they arise at the same perturbative order and are not artifacts of truncation. Without the full set of beta functions or the explicit form of the disorder-averaged correlators, it is unclear whether the reported scalings are fully justified or depend on post-hoc parameter choices.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Model Hamiltonian] Notation for the Luttinger parameter K and the Zeeman coupling strength should be defined consistently in the bosonization Hamiltonian to avoid ambiguity when comparing attractive and repulsive regimes.
  2. [Numerical results] The numerical section would benefit from explicit statements on system size, disorder averaging procedure, and how finite-size effects are controlled when extracting the logarithmic corrections.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below with clarifications and indicate the revisions we will implement to strengthen the presentation of the RG analysis and correlation functions.

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  1. Referee: [Bosonization and RG analysis section] The central RG analysis rests on the assumption that the helical edge remains a single-mode Luttinger liquid under the simultaneous inclusion of Zeeman, superconducting cosine, and disorder terms. The manuscript does not explicitly demonstrate that no additional relevant operators are generated that would renormalize K or invalidate the lowest-order flow equations before the disorder or pairing scales are reached; this assumption is load-bearing for the claimed sign of the logarithmic corrections and the Zeeman-controlled competition.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit discussion of the operator content would improve clarity. In the bosonization of the helical edge, the system is described by a single chiral boson with Luttinger parameter K. The Zeeman term, superconducting cosine, and disorder potential are the leading perturbations whose scaling dimensions are set by K. At the perturbative order used in our RG equations, no additional operators with scaling dimension less than 2 are generated before the flows reach strong coupling; this follows from the structure of the cosine and random-potential terms and is consistent with standard treatments of helical Luttinger liquids. The numerical simulations corroborate the resulting flows and scaling. We will add a dedicated paragraph in the RG section that lists possible higher-order operators and demonstrates their irrelevance in the relevant regime. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results on correlations and conductance] The statements on logarithmic suppression of transverse density-wave correlations and positive corrections to pair correlations (abstract and results) require explicit derivation of the scaling dimensions or flow equations to confirm they arise at the same perturbative order and are not artifacts of truncation. Without the full set of beta functions or the explicit form of the disorder-averaged correlators, it is unclear whether the reported scalings are fully justified or depend on post-hoc parameter choices.

    Authors: The logarithmic corrections originate from the disorder-averaged correlators obtained by integrating the RG flows. The transverse density-wave correlator acquires a logarithmic suppression from the disorder renormalization, while the superconducting pair correlator receives a positive correction whose sign is controlled by the Zeeman-induced shift in the effective scaling dimension. These corrections appear at the same perturbative order in the disorder strength. To address the concern, we will include the complete set of beta functions in a new appendix and derive the explicit disorder-averaged correlators from the integrated flows, showing that the reported signs and scalings follow directly without additional parameter tuning. The numerical data already support these analytical results. revision: yes

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Standard bosonization and RG analysis with no reduction to inputs by construction

full rationale

The paper applies established bosonization to the helical edge Hamiltonian, augments it with Zeeman, pairing, and disorder terms, and performs a standard renormalization-group analysis of the resulting scaling dimensions and flows. The reported competition between regimes, amplification of the gap, stabilization of impurities, and logarithmic corrections to density-wave and pair correlations are direct consequences of the lowest-order RG equations acting on the bosonized operators; none of these outputs are defined in terms of the inputs, fitted to a subset of the data, or obtained via a self-citation chain that itself lacks independent verification. The derivation remains self-contained within the conventional Luttinger-liquid framework and does not invoke uniqueness theorems or ansatzes imported from the authors' prior work.

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The central claims rest on the applicability of standard 1D bosonization and RG methods to the helical edge with added terms; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption The low-energy physics of the helical edge is captured by a bosonized Luttinger liquid description
    Standard modeling choice for 1D topological insulator edges invoked implicitly by the use of bosonization.
  • domain assumption Renormalization-group analysis of disorder and Zeeman perturbations yields the dominant scaling of correlation functions
    Core technique stated in the abstract for determining relevance of interactions.

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