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Majorana Fermion Induced Non-local Current Correlations in Spin-orbit Coupled Superconducting Wires

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-12 v3

Abstract

Recent observation of zero bias conductance peaks in semiconductor wire/superconductor heterostructures has generated great interest, and there is a hot debate on whether the observation is associated with Majorana fermions (MFs). Here we study the local and crossed Andreev reflections in a junction of two normal leads and a sandwiched superconductor-semiconductor wire with two spatially separated but strongly coupled MF end states. The conductance and Fano factors of such a device are sharply different from the topologically trivial case even in the presence of disorder, and can hence be used to identify MFs unambiguously.

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@article{arxiv.1212.5879,
  title  = {Majorana Fermion Induced Non-local Current Correlations in Spin-orbit Coupled Superconducting Wires},
  author = {Jie Liu and Fu-Chun Zhang and K. T. Law},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.5879},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7+ pages, 10 figures