Stability of flat-band edge states in topological superconductors without inversion center
arXiv:1311.6892 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.054501
Abstract
Nodal superconductors without inversion symmetry exhibit nontrivial topological properties, manifested by topologically protected flat-band edge states. Here we study the effects of breaking translational symmetry, crucial to the definition of the topological invariant. We show using large-scale numerical simulations that bulk-edge correspondence remains valid in the presence of edge roughness and strong edge disorder. Moderately strong nonmagnetic disorder shifts some of the edge states away from zero energy, but does not change their total number. Strong spin-independent edge disorder, on the other hand, leads to the appearance of new weakly disordered midgap states in the layers adjacent to the disordered edge, i.e., at the interface between the bulk topological superconductor and the one-dimensional Anderson insulator formed by the strongly disordered edge layers. Furthermore, we show that magnetic impurities, which lift the time-reversal symmetry protection of the flat-band states, lead to a rapid decrease of the number of edge states with increasing disorder strength.
10 pages, 5 figures
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