Majorana fermions: Anholonomy of bound states
Abstract
Majorana bound states appearing in 1-D -wave superconductor () 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 () singularities. Characterized by a collapse of the vector space, these singularities are defects in Hilbert space that lead to Mbius strip-like structure of the eigenspace and singular quantum metric. The topological phase transition in the language of 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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