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Multiple Chiral Majorana Fermion Modes and Quantum Transport

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-12-26 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We propose a general recipe for chiral topological superconductor (TSC) in two dimensions with multiple NN chiral Majorana fermion modes from a quantied anomalous Hall insulator in proximity to an s-wave superconductor with nontrivial band topology. A concrete example is that a N=3N=3 chiral TSC may be realized by coupling a magnetic topological insulator and the ion-based superconductor such as FeTe1x_{1-x}Sex_{x} (x=0.45x=0.45). We further propose the electrical and thermal transport experiments to detect the Majorana nature of three chiral edge fermions. A unique signature is that the two-terminal electrical conductance of a quantized anomalous Hall-TSC junction obeys a distribution averaged to (2/3)e2/h(2/3)e^2/h, which is due to the random edge mode mixing of chiral Majorana fermions and is distinguished from possible trivial explanations.

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@article{arxiv.1805.10763,
  title  = {Multiple Chiral Majorana Fermion Modes and Quantum Transport},
  author = {Jing Wang and Biao Lian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10763},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5.2 pages, 4 figures, the conductance distribution is added