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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 24, 期 32, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/32/325701
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- DFG [SFB Transregio 12, KL 256/42-3]
We investigate the Josephson effect for a setup with two lattice quantum wires featuring Majorana zero energy boundary modes at the tunnel junction. In the weak-coupling regime, the exact solution reproduces the perturbative result for the energy containing a contribution similar to +/- cos(phi/2) relative to the tunneling of paired Majorana fermions. As the tunnel amplitude g grows relative to the hopping amplitude w, the gap between the energy levels gradually diminishes until it closes completely at the critical value g(c) = root 2w. At this point the Josephson energies have the principal values E-m sigma = 2 sigma root 2w cosinverted right perpendicular phi/6 + 2 pi(m - 1)/3inverted left perpendicular, where m = -1, 0, 1 and sigma = +/- 1, a result not following from perturbation theory. It represents a transparent regime where three Bogoliubov states merge, leading to additional degeneracies of the topologically nontrivial ground state with an odd number of Majorana fermions at the end of each wire. We also obtain the exact tunnel currents for a fixed parity of the eigenstates. The Josephson current shows the characteristic 4 pi periodicity expected for a topological Josephson effect. We discuss the additional features of the current associated with a closure of the energy gap between the energy levels.
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