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Majorana Fermion Rides on a Magnetic Domain Wall

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-10-30 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We propose using a mobile magnetic domain wall as a host of zero-energy Majorana fermions in a spin-orbit coupled nanowire sandwiched by two ferromagnetic strips and deposited on an ss-wave superconductor. The ability to control domain walls by thermal means allows to braid Majorana fermions nonintrusively, which obey non-Abelian statistics. The analytical solutions of Majorana fermions inside domain walls are obtained in the strong spin-orbit regime.

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@article{arxiv.1502.02088,
  title  = {Majorana Fermion Rides on a Magnetic Domain Wall},
  author = {Se Kwon Kim and Sumanta Tewari and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02088},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures