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Topological superconductor-Luttinger liquid junctions

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2013/06/P06011

Keywords

bosonization; Luttinger liquids (theory); quantum wires (theory); phase diagrams (theory)

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  1. NSERC
  2. CIfAR

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Experimental evidence was recently obtained for topological superconductivity in spin-orbit coupled nanowires 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 two-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.

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