Abstract
The excitation spectrum of a two-dimensional px+ipy fermionic superfluid, such as a thin film of 3He-A, includes a gapless Majorana-Weyl fermion which is confined to the boundary by Andreev reflection. There is also a persistent ground-state boundary current which provides a droplet containing N particles with angular momentum ℏN/2. Both of these boundary effects are associated with bulk Chern-Simons effective actions. We show that the gapless edge mode is required for the gauge invariance of the total effective action, but the same is not true of the boundary current.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 184511 |
Pages (from-to) | 184511-1-184511-12 |
Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 18 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics