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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/5/053016
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- Dutch Science Foundation NWO/FOM
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst DAAD
- ERC
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We calculate the conductance of a ballistic point contact to a superconducting wire, produced by the s-wave proximity effect in a semiconductor with spin-orbit coupling in a parallel magnetic field. The conductance G as a function of contact width or Fermi energy shows plateaux at half-integer multiples of 4e(2)/h if the superconductor is in a topologically nontrivial phase. In contrast, the plateaux are at the usual integer multiples in the topologically trivial phase. Disorder destroys all plateaux except the first, which remains precisely quantized, consistent with previous results for a tunnel contact. The advantage of a ballistic contact over a tunnel contact as a probe of the topological phase is the strongly reduced sensitivity to finite voltage or temperature.
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