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Majorana Zero-Energy Mode and Fractal Structure in Fibonacci-Kitaev Chain

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-10-12 v2

Abstract

We theoretically study a Kitaev chain with a quasiperiodic potential, where the quasiperiodicity is introduced by a Fibonacci sequence. Based on an analysis of the Majorana zero-energy mode, we find the critical pp-wave superconducting pairing potential separating a topological phase and a non-topological phase. The topological phase diagram with respect to Fibonacci potentials follow a self-similar fractal structure characterized by the box-counting dimension, which is an example of the interplay of fractal and topology like the Hofstadter's butterfly in quantum Hall insulators.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00077,
  title  = {Majorana Zero-Energy Mode and Fractal Structure in Fibonacci-Kitaev Chain},
  author = {Rasoul Ghadimi and Takanori Sugimoto and Takami Tohyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00077},
  year   = {2017}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures