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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 105, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.045418
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [FIS2017-84860-R, PCI2018-093026, PGC2018-097018-B-I00]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the FE-TOPEN Grant [828948]
- Maria de Maeztu Programme for Units of Excellence in RD [MDM-2014-0377]
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This article analyzes the subgap excitations and phase diagram of a quantum dot coupled to a semiconducting nanowire fully wrapped by a superconducting shell. It finds that the induced pairing vanishes under shell fluxoids, causing a level renormalization and pushing subgap levels closer to zero energy.
We analyze the subgap excitations and phase diagram of a quantum dot (QD) coupled to a semiconducting nanowire fully wrapped by a superconducting (S) shell. We take into account how a Little-Parks (LP) pairing fluxoid (a winding in the S phase around the shell) influences the proximity effect on the dot. We find that under axially symmetric QD-S coupling, shell fluxoids cause the induced pairing to vanish, producing instead a level renormalization that pushes subgap levels closer to zero energy and flattens fermionic parity crossings as the coupling strength increases. This fluxoid-induced stabilization mechanism has analoges in symmetric S-QD-S Josephson junctions at phase pi, and can naturally lead to patterns of near-zero modes weakly dispersing with parameters in all but the zeroth lobe of the LP spectrum.
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