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A A Zyuzin1,2, Julien Garaud1, Egor Babaev1
1Department of Physics, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-10691 Sweden.
Abstract:
We study topological excitations in two-component nematic superconductors, with a particular focus on Cu_{x}Bi_{2}Se_{3} as a candidate material. We find that the lowest-energy topological excitations are coreless vortices: a bound state of two spatially separated half-quantum vortices. These objects are nematic Skyrmions, since they are characterized by an additional topological charge. The inter-Skyrmion forces are dipolar in this model, i.e., attractive for certain relative orientations of the Skyrmions, hence forming multi-Skyrmion bound states.
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