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Fractional spin Josephson effect in topological spin superconductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-04-10 v1

Abstract

Topological spin superconductors are pp-wave spin-triplet exciton insulators whose topological edge modes have been shown to obey non-Abelian braiding statistics. Based on a toy model as the spin counterpart of the Kitaev's chain, we study the spin Josephson effect adopting the SS-matrix as well as the Green's function method. The on-site energies of these topological edge modes lead to a transition between the fractional and integer spin Josephson effects. Moreover, non-vanishing on-site energies will also induce a charge pump through the spin Josephson junction. These two effects, distinct features of topological spin superconductors and absent in Majorana systems, can be utilized for spin transport detection of topological spin superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.2412.08157,
  title  = {Fractional spin Josephson effect in topological spin superconductors},
  author = {Liang Du and Hua Jiang and Yijia Wu and X. C. Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08157},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures

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