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 and has a topological nature.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures. Published version