Tuning between singlet, triplet, and mixed pairing states in an extended Hubbard chain

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作者
Sun, Kuei [1 ]
Chiu, Ching-Kai [2 ,3 ]
Hung, Hsiang-Hsuan [4 ]
Wu, Jiansheng [5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cincinnati, Dept Phys, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[2] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[3] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[4] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[5] Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Phys, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[6] South Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Phys, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
关键词
SUPERCONDUCTING PHASES; MAJORANA FERMIONS; NANOWIRE; SYMMETRY; SIGNATURE; PHYSICS; HE-3;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.89.104519
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We study spin-half fermions in a one-dimensional extended Hubbard chain at low filling. We identify three triplet and one singlet pairing channels in the system, which are independently tunable as a function of nearest-neighbor charge and spin interactions. In a large-size system with translational invariance, we derive gap equations for the corresponding pairing gaps and obtain a Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian with its nontrivial topology determined by the interplay of these gaps. In an open-end system with a fixed number of particles, we compute the exact many-body ground state and identify the dominant pairing revealed by the pair density matrix. Both cases show competition between the four pairing states, resulting in broad regions for each of them and relatively narrow regions for mixed-pairing states in the parameter space. Our results enable the possibility of tuning a nanowire between singlet and triplet pairing states without breaking time-reversal or SU(2) symmetry, accompanied by a change in the system's topology.
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