Staircase to higher-order topological phase transitions

We find a series of topological phase transitions of increasing order, beyond the more standard second-order phase transition in a one-dimensional topological superconductor. The jumps in the order of the transitions depend on the range of the pairing interaction, which is parametrized by an algebra...

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Main Authors: Cats, P., Quelle, A., Martin-Delgado, M. A., Morais Smith, C., Viyuela Garcia, Oscar
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114513