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We construct a quasiclassical framework for topological superconductors with the strong spin-orbit coupling such as CuxBi2Se3. In the manner of the quasiclassical treatment, decomposing the slowly varying component from the total quasi-particle wave function, the original massive Dirac Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonian derived from the tight-binding model represented by 8 x 8 matrix is reduced to 4 x 4 one. The resultant equations are equivalent to Andreev-type equations of singlet or triplet superconductors, in which the apparent spin-orbit coupling vanishes. Using this formalism, we find a fact that the odd-parity superconductivity in topological superconductors turns to the spin-triplet one. % without the spin-orbit coupling through the quasiclassical treatment. Moreover, in terms of the quasiclassical treatment, we show that the topologically-protected zero-energy states in topological superconductors has the correspondence to the Andreev bound states established in a long history of studies for the unconventional superconductors. This clearly indicates that low-energy non-trivial superconducting properties in the topological superconductors can be analyzed by the establis

Author

Nagai, Yuki; Nakamura, Hiroki; Machida, Masahiko

Published

2013

Language

EN