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Limits of Thermal Conductance Quantization in Chiral Topological Josephson Junctions

Superconductivity 2026-02-16 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate thermal and non-local electrical transport in four-terminal Josephson junctions formed by a normal region coupled to two transverse chiral superconducting leads, supporting phases characterized by Chern numbers C=0,1{\cal C}=0,\,1\,and\,2. We identify the conditions under which a single chiral Majorana mode (C=1{\cal C}=1) produces a robust half-quantized thermal conductance, while non-local electrical conductance remains strongly suppressed by particle-hole symmetry. Thermal conductance quantization occurs near a superconducting phase difference π\pi, but only in the low-doping regime of the central region and in the intermediate- to long-junction limits. At finite Zeeman fields, the thermal response broadly follows the topology of the isolated superconducting leads for the C=1C=1 phase while, in the C=2{\cal C}=2 phase, the thermal conductance generally deviates from quantization, depending on the momentum-space location of the Majorana modes. Our results establish clear criteria for probing chiral Majorana modes in Josephson junctions and highlight the essential role of momentum-space structure, finite-size geometry, and sample parameters in thermal transport.

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@article{arxiv.2602.12947,
  title  = {Limits of Thermal Conductance Quantization in Chiral Topological Josephson Junctions},
  author = {Daniel Gresta and Fernando Dominguez and Raffael L. Klees and Florian Goth and Laurens W. Molenkamp and Ewelina M. Hankiewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12947},
  year   = {2026}
}

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12 pages, 12 figures