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Majorana fermions: Anholonomy of bound states

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-10-09 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Majorana bound states appearing in 1-D pp-wave superconductor (PWS\cal{PWS}) are found to result in exotic quantum holonomy of both eigenvalues and the eigenstates. Induced by a degeneracy hidden in complex Bloch vector space, Majorana states are identified with a pair of exceptional point (EP\cal{EP}) singularities. Characterized by a collapse of the vector space, these singularities are defects in Hilbert space that lead to Mo¨\ddot{\rm o}bius strip-like structure of the eigenspace and singular quantum metric. The topological phase transition in the language of EP\cal{EP} is marked by one of the two exception point singularity degenerating to a degeneracy point with non singular quantum metric. This may provide an elegant and useful framework to characterize the topological aspect of Majorana fermions and the topological phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6139,
  title  = {Majorana fermions: Anholonomy of bound states},
  author = {Sourin Das and Indubala I. Satija},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6139},
  year   = {2015}
}

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