Seminarium Fizyki Materii Skondensowanej

Topological phases of matter are among the most intriguing research directions in Condensed Matter Physics. It is known that superconductivity induced on a topological insulator’s surface can lead to exotic Majorana modes, the main ingredient of many proposed quantum computation schemes. In this context, iron-based high critical temperature superconductors are among the main candidates to host such exotic phenomenon. Moreover, it is commonly believed that the Coulomb interaction is vital for the magnetic and superconducting properties of these systems. This work bridges these two perspectives and shows that the Coulomb interaction can also drive a trivial superconductor with orbital degrees of freedom into the topological phase. Namely, we show that above some critical value of the Hubbard interaction, identified by the change in entropy behaviour, the system simultaneously develops spiral spin order, a highly unusual triplet amplitude in superconductivity, and, remarkably, Majorana fermions at the edges of the system. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83686899432?pwd=RXNtZkhtZFpLazVmMVRFY1BtVlI0Zz09Meeting ID: 836 8689 9432Passcode: cond-matt