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Topological pumping in class-D superconducting wires

Superconductivity 2013-10-29 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study adiabatic pumping at a normal metal/class-D superconductor hybrid interface when superconductivity is induced through the proximity effect in a spin-orbit coupled nanowire in the presence of a tilted Zeeman field. When the induced order parameter in the nanowire is non-uniform, the phase diagram has isolated trivial regions surrounded by topological ones. We show that in this case the pumped charge is quantized in units of the elementary charge ee and has a topological nature.

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@article{arxiv.1302.2736,
  title  = {Topological pumping in class-D superconducting wires},
  author = {Marco Gibertini and Rosario Fazio and Marco Polini and Fabio Taddei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.2736},
  year   = {2013}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures. Published version

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