Magnetic order on a topological insulator surface with warping and proximity-induced superconductivity

Abstract

We determine the nature of the magnetic order on the surface of a topological insulator (TI) which develops due to hexagonal warping and the resulting Fermi surface (FS) nesting in the presence of a repulsive Hubbard interaction. For this purpose we investigate the spin susceptibility and derive a Landau theory to compare the different accessible phases. For a nearly hexagonal FS and sufficiently strong interaction the magnetic ground state is formed by a skyrmion lattice, i.e., by a superposition of three helical spin density waves which preserves C${}_3$ symmetry. The magnetic ground state is topologically nontrivial with a nonzero skyrmion charge, which can be stabilized and controlled by an applied magnetic field. By bringing the TI in proximity to a conventional superconductor one can engineer a C${}_3$-symmetric topological superconductor. We explore the modification of the phase diagram as well as the mutual influence between the skyrmion structure and a multipolar distribution of supercurrents, which can provide information about the underlying skyrmion charge.

arXiv commentMain text: 15 pages and 11 figures; Appendix: 4 pages and 2 figures; v2: slight modifications and updated references

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