@article{bauer2013effect,
author = {Bauer, Bela and Lutchyn, Roman and Hastings, Matthew and Troyer, Matthias},
title = {Effect of thermal fluctuations in topological p-wave superconductors},
year = {2013},
month = {January},
abstract = {We study the effect of thermal fluctuations on the topological stability of chiral p-wave superconductors. We consider two models of superconductors: spinless and spinful with a focus on topological properties and Majorana zero-energy modes. We show that proliferation of vortex-antivortex pairs above the Kosterlitz-Thouless temperature TKT drives the transition from a thermal Quantum Hall insulator to a thermal metal/insulator, and dramatically modifies the ground-state degeneracy splitting. Therefore, in order to utilize 2D chiral p-wave superconductors for topological quantum computing, the temperature should be much smaller than TKT. Within the spinful chiral p-wave model, we also investigate the interplay between half-quantum vortices carrying Majorana zeroenergy modes and full-quantum vortices having trivial topological charge, and discuss topological properties of half-quantum vortices in the background of proliferating full-quantum vortices.},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/effect-thermal-fluctuations-topological-p-wave-superconductors/},
pages = {14503},
journal = {Physical Review B},
volume = {87},
chapter = {1},
}