Topological superconductor-Luttinger liquid junctions

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/06/P06011zbMATH Open1456.82941arXiv1305.1888MaRDI QIDQ3301626FDOQ3301626

Authors: Ian Affleck, Domenico Giuliano 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Experimental evidence was recently obtained for topological superconductivity in spin-orbit coupled nano wires in a magnetic field, proximate to an s-wave superconductor. When only part of the wire contacts the superconductor, a localized Majorana mode exists at the junction between superconducting and normal parts of the nanowire. We consider here the case of a T-junction between the superconductor and two normal nanowires and also the case of a single wire with two (or more) partially filled bands in the normal part. We find that coupling this 2-channel Luttinger liquid to the single Majorana mode at the junction produces frustration, leading to a critical point separating phases with perfect Andreev scattering in one channel and perfect normal scattering in the other.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1888

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27)

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