Multiterminal Coulomb-Majorana junction
We study multiple helical nanowires in proximity to a common mesoscopic superconducting island, where Majorana fermion bound states are formed. We show that a weak finite charging energy of the center island may dramatically affect the low-energy behavior of the system. While for strong charging int...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physical review letters 2013-05, Vol.110 (19), p.196401-196401, Article 196401 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We study multiple helical nanowires in proximity to a common mesoscopic superconducting island, where Majorana fermion bound states are formed. We show that a weak finite charging energy of the center island may dramatically affect the low-energy behavior of the system. While for strong charging interactions, the junction decouples the connecting wires, interactions lower than a nonuniversal threshold may trigger the flow towards an exotic Kondo fixed point. In either case, the ideally Andreev reflecting fixed point characteristic for infinite capacitance (grounded) devices gets destabilized by interactions. |
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ISSN: | 0031-9007 1079-7114 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.196401 |