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Distribution of Conductances in Chiral Topological Superconductor Junctions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-01-23 v1

Abstract

We study the electronic transport of heterojunctions made of chiral topological superconductors (TSCs) with NN chiral Majorana fermion modes and quantum Hall insulators (QHIs) with integer Chern number CC. In the weak disorder regime, we show the two-terminal conductance σ12\sigma_{12} of a QHI-TSC-QHI junction is generically non-quantized, but obeys a certain distribution determined by CC and NN, which is induced by random SO(NN) rotations of chiral Majorana fermion mode basis on the TSC edges. Oppositely, in the strong disorder regime, σ12\sigma_{12} tends to be a quantized value. We conclude with a brief discussion on the fractionally quantized thermal conductances of the junction.

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@article{arxiv.1807.03943,
  title  = {Distribution of Conductances in Chiral Topological Superconductor Junctions},
  author = {Biao Lian and Jing Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03943},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4+7 pages, 2 figures