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量研・原子力機構・兵県大合同物性コロキウム(第102回)
共催:兵庫県立大学フロンティア機能物質創製センター・オープンセミナー(第27回)
日本物理学会大阪支部講演会

102nd QST-JAEA-UH Joint Condensed Matter Colloquium
27th Open Seminar of Resear Center for New Functional Materials
JPS Osaka Branch Lecture

日時: 平成29年11月13日(月) 15:30〜16:30
Date and time: 13th Nov. (Mon.) 15:30 〜 16:30
場所: SPring-8, 萌光館
Place: SPring-8, "HOUKOUKAN" seminar room
Title: Majorana edge states and level crossings in chains of Co adatoms
講演者: Frederic Mila 教授(スイス連邦工科大ローザンヌ校)
Speaker: Prof. Frederic Mila (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Abstract:

Motivated by recent STM experiments on chains of Co adatoms deposited on Cu2N that have revealed a series of ground state level crossings as a function of magnetic field [1], and by their possible connection to Majorana edge states [2], I will discuss the origin of level crossings in the transverse field Ising model perturbed by an additional spin-spin interaction parallel or perpendicular to the magnetic field. I will show that, in a chain of N spins, an additional spin-spin interaction induces N level crossings in the ground state however small it might be, provided it has the same sign as the main interaction [3]. The proof relies on a mapping on Kitaev's 1D model of a p-wave superconductor for which it can be shown that similar level crossings occur provided the pairing amplitude is smaller than the hopping integral due to the oscillating character of the Majorana edge states. Implications for other one-dimensional topological phases such as the Haldane phase of the spin-1 chain will be discussed [4].

[1] R. Toskovic, R. van den Berg, A. Spinelli, I. S. Eliens, B. van den Toorn, B. Bryant, J.-S. Caux, and A. F. Otte, Nat. Phys. 12, 656 (2016).
[2] F. Mila, Nat. Phys. 12, 633 (2016).
[3] G. Vionnet, B. Kumar, F. Mila, Phys. Rev. B 95, 174404 (2017).
[4] N. Chepiga and F. Mila, Phys. Rev. B 96, 060409(R) (2017).