Identifying Chern numbers of superconductors from local measurements
Paul Baireuther, Marcin Płodzień, Teemu Ojanen, Jakub Tworzydło, Timo Hyart
SciPost Phys. Core 6, 087 (2023) · published 15 December 2023
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.4.087
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Abstract
Fascination in topological materials originates from their remarkable response properties and exotic quasiparticles which can be utilized in quantum technologies. In particular, large-scale efforts are currently focused on realizing topological superconductors and their Majorana excitations. However, determining the topological nature of superconductors with current experimental probes is an outstanding challenge. This shortcoming has become increasingly pressing due to rapidly developing designer platforms which are theorized to display very rich topology and are better accessed by local probes rather than transport experiments. We introduce a robust machine learning protocol for classifying the topological states of two-dimensional (2D) chiral superconductors and insulators from local density of states (LDOS) data. Since the LDOS can be measured with standard experimental techniques, our protocol contributes to overcoming the almost three decades standing problem of identifying the topological phase of 2D superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry.
Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 Paul Baireuther,
- 2 Marcin Płodzień,
- 3 4 Teemu Ojanen,
- 5 Jakub Tworzydlo,
- 2 4 6 Timo Hyart
- 1 Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
- 2 Polska Akademia Nauk / Polish Academy of Sciences [PAN]
- 3 Helsinki Institute of Physics
- 4 Tampereen Yliopisto / Tampere University
- 5 Uniwersytet Warszawski / University of Warsaw [UW]
- 6 Aalto-Universitetet / Aalto University