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Current noise cross correlation mediated by Majorana bound states

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-11-18 v1

Abstract

We study the transport properties of a quantum dot-Majorana hybrid system, in which each of paired Majorana bound states is connected to one quantum dot. With the help of non-equilibrium Green's function method, we obtain an exact solution of the Green's functions and calculate the currents through the quantum dots and nonlocal noise cross correlation between the currents. As a function of dot energy levels ϵ1\epsilon_{1} and ϵ2\epsilon_{2}, we find that for the symmetric level configuration ϵ1=ϵ2\epsilon_{1}=\epsilon_{2}, the noise cross correlation is negative in the low lead voltage regime, while it becomes positive with the increase of the lead voltages. Due to the particle-hole symmetry, the cross correlation is always positive in the anti-symmetric case ϵ1=ϵ2\epsilon_{1}=-\epsilon_{2}. In contrast, the cross correlation of non-Majorana setups is always positive. For comparison, we also perform the diagonalized master equation calculation to check its applicability. It is found that the diagonalized master equations work well in most regimes of system parameters. Nevertheless, it shows an obvious deviation from the exact solution by the non-equilibrium Green's function method when all eigenenergies of the dot-Majorana hybrid system and simultaneously the energy intervals are comparable to the dot-lead coupling strength.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4260,
  title  = {Current noise cross correlation mediated by Majorana bound states},
  author = {Hai-Feng Lu and Hai-Zhou Lu and Shun-Qing Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4260},
  year   = {2014}
}

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15 pages, 10 figures