Manipulation of the Majorana fermion, Andreev reflection, and Josephson current on topological insulators

We study theoretically the transport properties of a normal metal (N)/ferromagnet insulator (FI)/superconductor (S) junction and a S/FI/S junction formed on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator, where the chiral Majorana mode exists at the FI/S interface. We find the chiral Major...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2009-09, Vol.103 (10), p.107002-107002, Article 107002
Hauptverfasser: Tanaka, Yukio, Yokoyama, Takehito, Nagaosa, Naoto
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We study theoretically the transport properties of a normal metal (N)/ferromagnet insulator (FI)/superconductor (S) junction and a S/FI/S junction formed on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator, where the chiral Majorana mode exists at the FI/S interface. We find the chiral Majorana mode generated in N/FI/S and S/FI/S junctions is very sensitively controlled by the direction of the magnetization m in the FI region. In particular, the current-phase relation of the Josephson current in S/FI/S junctions has a phase shift of neither 0 nor pi that can be tuned continuously by the component of m perpendicular to the interface.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.103.107002