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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 120, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.067003
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- Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Science, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-FG02-08ER46544]
- MRSEC program at Princeton Center for Complex Materials [NSF-DMR-1420541]
- W. M. Keck Foundation
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We generalize the concept of Berry connection of the single-electron band structure to that of a two-particle Cooper pairing state between two Fermi surfaces with opposite Chern numbers. Because of underlying Fermi surface topology, the pairing Berry phase acquires nontrivial monopole structure. Consequently, pairing gap functions have topologically protected nodal structure as vortices in the momentum space with the total vorticity solely determined by the pair monopole charge q(p). The nodes of gap function behave as the Weyl-Majorana points of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes pairing Hamiltonian. Their relation with the connection patterns of the surface modes from the Weyl band structure and the Majorana surface modes inside the pairing gap is also discussed. Under the approximation of spherical Fermi surfaces, the pairing symmetry are represented by monopole harmonic functions. The lowest possible pairing channel carries angular momentum number j = vertical bar q(p)vertical bar, and the corresponding gap functions are holomorphic or antiholomorphic functions on Fermi surfaces. After projected on the Fermi surfaces with nontrivial topology, all the partial-wave channels of pairing interactions acquire the monopole charge q(p) independent of concrete pairing mechanism.
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