We study the quasiparticles in chiral double layers with electron pairing within the framework of the Bogoliubov–de Gennes equation. In the presence of an edge it is demonstrated that the quasiparticle modes can be distinguished as edge modes and bulk modes, which appear at different energies. The bulk-edge correspondence is obtained by an analytic continuation from the in-gap edge modes to the bands of bulk modes. By varying the energy we find a transition from localized edge modes to delocalized bulk modes. We calculate the quasiparticle currents, discuss briefly how these currents couple to external currents, and predict how this can be used to control the quasiparticle modes.

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• Edge states
• Superconducting gap
• Superconductors
• Topological superconductors
• 2-dimensional systems
• Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations