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 |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0031-9007 1079-7114 |
DOI: | 10.1103/physrevlett.103.107002 |