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Full counting statistics of Majorana interferometers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-09-22 v2

Abstract

We study the full counting statistics of interferometers for chiral Majorana fermions with two incoming and two outgoing Dirac fermion channels. In the absence of interactions, the FCS can be obtained from the 4×44\times4 scattering matrix SS that relates the outgoing Dirac fermions to the incoming Dirac fermions. After presenting explicit expressions for the higher-order current correlations for a modified Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer, we note that the cumulant-generating function can be interpreted such that unit-charge transfer processes correspond to two independent half-charge transfer processes, or alternatively, to two independent electron-hole conversion processes. By a combination of analytical and numerical approaches, we verify that this factorization property holds for a general SO(4)SO(4) scattering matrix, i.e. for a general interferometer geometry.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1506.08774,
  title  = {Full counting statistics of Majorana interferometers},
  author = {Gregory Struebi and Wolfgang Belzig and Thomas L. Schmidt and Christoph Bruder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08774},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures, contributed to the special issue of Physica E "Frontiers in Quantum Electronic Transport - In Memory of Markus Buttiker"

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