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Inversion-protected Higher-order Topological Superconductivity in Monolayer <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>WTe</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>
Monolayer ${\mathrm{WTe}}_{2}$, a centrosymmetric transition metal dichacogenide, has recently been established as a quantum spin Hall insulator and found superconducting upon gating. Here we study the pairing symmetry and topological nature of superconducting ${\mathrm{WTe}}_{2}$ with a microscopic model at mean-field level. Surprisingly, we find that the spin-triplet phases in our …