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Spin selective coupling to Majorana zero modes in mixed singlet and triplet superconducting nanowire

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-06-06 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a quasi one dimensional ferromagnet-superconductor junction where the superconductor consists of mixed singlet and triplet pairings. We show that the relative orientation of the stoner field (h~\bf{\tilde{h}}) in the ferromagnetic lead and the d\bf{d} vector of the superconductor acts like a on-off switch for the zero bias conductance of the device. In the regime, where triplet pairing amplitude dominates over the singlet counterpart (topological phase), a pair of Majorana zero modes appear at each end of the superconducting part of the nanowire. When h~\bf{\tilde{h}} is parallel or anti-parallel to the d\bf{d} vector, transport gets completely blocked due to blockage in pairing while, when h~\bf{\tilde{h}} and d\bf{d} are perpendicular to each other, the zero energy two terminal differential conductance spectra exhibits sharp transition from 4e2/h4e^2/h to 2e2/h2e^2/h as the magnetization strength in the lead becomes larger than the chemical potential indicating the spin selective coupling of pair of Majorana zero modes to the lead.

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@article{arxiv.1802.05244,
  title  = {Spin selective coupling to Majorana zero modes in mixed singlet and triplet superconducting nanowire},
  author = {Ganesh C. Paul and Arijit Saha and Sourin Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05244},
  year   = {2018}
}

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