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Two-Channel Kondo Physics in a Majorana Island Coupled to a Josephson Junction

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-02-01 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity

Abstract

We study a Majorana island coupled to a bulk superconductor via a Josephson junction and to multiple external normal leads. In the absence of the Josephson coupling, the system displays a topological Kondo state, which had been largely studied recently. However, we find that this state is unstable even to small Josephson coupling, which instead leads at low temperature TT to a new fixed point. Most interesting is the case of three external leads, forming a minimal electronic realization of the long sought two-channel Kondo effect. While the T=0T=0 conductance corresponds to simple resonant Andreev reflection, the leading TT dependence forms an experimental fingerprint for non-Fermi liquid properties.

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@article{arxiv.1609.09257,
  title  = {Two-Channel Kondo Physics in a Majorana Island Coupled to a Josephson Junction},
  author = {L. Aviad Landau and Eran Sela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09257},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures