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Jinyu Zou1, Qing Xie1, Zhida Song2
1Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center & School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
Abstract:
We classify gapped topological superconducting (TSC) phases of one-dimensional quantum wires with local magnetic symmetries, in which the time-reversal symmetry [Formula: see text] is broken, but its combinations with certain crystalline symmetries, such as [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], are preserved. Our results demonstrate that an equivalent BDI class TSC can be realized in the [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] superconducting wire, which is characterized by a chiral Z invariant. More interestingly, we also find two types of totally new TSC phases in the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] superinducting wires, which are beyond the known AZ class, and are characterized by a helical Z invariant and Z ⊕Z invariants, respectively. In the Z TSC phase, Z pairs of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are protected at each end. In the [Formula: see text] case, the MZMs can be either chiral or helical, and even helical-chiral coexisting. The minimal models preserving [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text] symmetry are presented to illustrate their novel TSC properties and MZMs.
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