Detecting Majorana fermions in topological superconductors using stress

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2017.08.001MaRDI QIDQ2409898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Schmeltzer, A. Saxena

Publication date 16 October 2017

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02561

zbMATH Keywords

Andreev cross reflectiondissipative impedanceviscosity tensorzero and non-zero modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: One of the goals of modern spectroscopy is to invent techniques which detect neutral excitations that have been theoretically proposed. For superconductors, two point transport measurements detect the Andreev crossed reflection which confirms the existence of the Majorana fermions. Similar information can be obtained from a measurement using two piezoelectric transducers. One transducer measures the stress tensor response from the strain field generated by the second transducer. The ratio between the stress response and strain velocity determines the dissipative response. We will show that the dissipative stress response can be used for a Topological Superconductor. We will investigate a Topological Superconductor in a magnetic field, an Abrikosov vortex lattice with Majorana dispersive fermions is formed which is used to compute the dissipative stress response and identify the Majorana fermions and quasi-particles.

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