Unconventional topological phase transitions in helical Shiba chains

Abstract

Chains of magnetic impurities placed on a superconducting substrate and forming helical spin order provide a promising venue for realizing a topological superconducting phase. An effective tight-binding description of such helical Shiba chains involves long-range (power-law) hopping and pairing amplitudes which induce an unconventional topological critical point. At the critical point, we find exponentially localized Majorana bound states with a short localization length unrelated to a topological gap. Away from the critical point, this exponential decay develops a power-law tail. Our analytical results have encouraging implications for experiment.

4+ pages, 2 figures, plus supplementary material, v3: added references and minor refinements; published version

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