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Majorana fermions in spin-orbit coupled ferromagnetic Josephson junctions

Superconductivity 2015-05-28 v2

Abstract

We study all possible Majorana modes in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled ferromagnetic superconductor-normal state-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions and propose experiments to detect them. With the S region in a non-trivial topological phase and a superconducting phase difference ϕ=π\phi = \pi across the junction, two delocalized Majorana fermions with no excitation gap appear in the N region. In addition, if S and N belong to different topological phases and have well-separated the Fermi surfaces, localized Majorana fermions with a finite excitation gap also emerge at both SN interfaces for all ϕ\phi.

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@article{arxiv.1106.1801,
  title  = {Majorana fermions in spin-orbit coupled ferromagnetic Josephson junctions},
  author = {Annica M. Black-Schaffer and Jacob Linder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.1801},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures. Published version

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