Crystal-symmetry-protected gapless vortex-line phases in superconducting Dirac semimetals
arXiv:2302.07451 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.214518
Abstract
Vortex lines in superconducting Dirac semimetals realize crystal-symmetry-protected gapless vortex-line phases in which gapless excitations propagate inside a vortex line, in the presence of appropriate crystal symmetry, spin-orbit coupling, and multi-band structures. Here we present a general scheme to classify possible gapless vortex-line phases in superconducting Dirac semimetals with rotation (or screw) symmetry and inversion symmetry, assuming that the rotation (screw) axis is parallel to the vortex line. The rotation (screw)-symmetry-protected gapless modes are stable as long as they have different rotation (screw) eigenvalues. The underlying mechanism for the formation of gapless vortex bound states depends on irreducible representations of rotation (screw) symmetry subject to a vortex field and is classified into three types: (i) accidental band crossing of two vortex bound-state modes under rotation symmetry; (ii) accidental and (iii) enforced band crossing of four vortex bound-state modes under screw symmetry. We present a tight-binding model of screw-symmetry-protected Dirac semimetal with an -wave pair potential, demonstrating a gapless vortex-line phase of type (ii). We obtain four gapless modes of vortex bound states whose gapless points (Majorana zero modes) pinned at a time-reversal invariant momentum (TRIM) when the Fermi energy is close to the Dirac points. As the Fermi energy is moved away from the Dirac points, the four gapless modes are split into a pair of two gapless modes with vanishing excitation energy at non-TRIMs. In closing, we discuss NbPt as a candidate material with the four-fold screw-symmetry-protected Dirac cones that can host a gapless vortex-line phase.
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