期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 90, 期 15, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.155450
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- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research(NWO/OCW)
- ERC Synergy Grant
- China Scholarship Council
We show how the superconducting phase difference in a Josephson junction may be used to split the Kramers degeneracy of its energy levels and to remove all the properties associated with time-reversal symmetry. The superconducting phase difference is known to be ineffective in two-terminal short Josephson junctions, where irrespective of the junction structure the induced Kramers degeneracy splitting is suppressed and the ground state fermion parity must stay even, so that a protected zero-energy Andreev level crossing may never appear. Our main result is that these limitations can be completely avoided by using multiterminal Josephson junctions. There the Kramers degeneracy breaking becomes comparable to the superconducting gap, and applying phase differences may cause the change of the ground state fermion parity from even to odd. We prove that the necessary condition for the appearance of a fermion parity switch is the presence of a discrete vortex in the junction: the situation when the phases of the superconducting leads wind by 2 pi. Our approach offers strategies for creation of Majorana bound states as well as spin manipulation. Our proposal can be implemented using any low density, high spin-orbit material such as InAs quantum wells, and can be detected using standard tools.
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