Spånslätt Christian, Ardonne Eddy
Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
J Phys Condens Matter. 2017 Mar 15;29(10):105602. doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa585d. Epub 2017 Jan 10.
We investigate the sub gap properties of a three terminal Josephson T-junction composed of topologically superconducting wires connected by a normal metal region. This system naturally hosts zero energy Andreev bound states which are of self-conjugate Majorana nature and we show that they are, in contrast to ordinary Majorana zero modes, spatially extended in the normal metal region. If the T-junction respects time-reversal symmetry, we show that a zero mode is distributed only in two out of three arms in the junction and tuning the superconducting phases allows for transfer of the mode between the junction arms. We further provide tunneling conductance calculations showing that these features can be detected in experiments. Our findings suggest an experimental platform for studying the nature of spatially extended Majorana zero modes.
我们研究了由正常金属区域连接的拓扑超导线组成的三端约瑟夫森T型结的亚能隙特性。该系统自然存在具有自共轭马约拉纳性质的零能安德列夫束缚态,并且我们表明,与普通马约拉纳零模不同,它们在正常金属区域中是空间扩展的。如果T型结具有时间反演对称性,我们表明零模仅分布在结的三个臂中的两个臂中,并且调节超导相位允许该模式在结臂之间转移。我们进一步提供了隧穿电导计算,表明这些特征可以在实验中检测到。我们的发现为研究空间扩展的马约拉纳零模的性质提供了一个实验平台。