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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.060504
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- HKRGC [605512, HKUST3/CRF09]
- DOE [DEFG0203ER46076]
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We show that an in-plane magnetic field can drive a fully gapped p +/- ip topological superconductor into a gapless phase which supports Majorana flat bands (MFBs). Unlike previous examples, the MFBs in the gapless regime are protected from disorder by a chiral symmetry. In addition, novel unidirectional Majorana edge states (MESs) which propagate in the same direction on opposite edges appear when the chiral symmetry is broken by Rashba terms. Unlike the usual chiral or helical edge states, unidirectional MESs appear only in systems with a gapless bulk. The MFBs and the unidirectional MESs induce nearly quantized zero bias conductance in tunneling experiments.
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