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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 81, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.134435
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- Society of Fellows, Harvard University
- Milton Funds
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We study a superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor (SC-FM-SC) Josephson array deposited on top of a two-dimensional quantum spin Hall insulator. The Majorana bound state at the interface between SC and FM leads to charge-e tunneling between neighboring superconductor islands, in addition to the usual charge-2e Cooper pair tunneling. Moreover, because Majorana fermions encode the information of charge number parity, an exact Z(2) gauge structure naturally emerges and leads to many new phases, including a deconfined phase where electrons fractionalize into charge-e bosons and topological defects. A deconfined SC-insulator transition has also been found.
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