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Two-impurity helical Majorana problem

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-02-13 v2

Abstract

We predict experimentally accessible signatures for helical Majorana fermions in a topological superconductor by coupling to two quantum dots in the local moment regime (corresponding to spin-1/21/2 impurities). Taking into account RKKY interactions mediated by bulk and edge modes, where the latter cause a long-range antiferromagnetic Ising coupling, we formulate and solve the low-energy theory for this two-impurity helical Majorana problem. In particular, we show that the long-time spin dynamics after a magnetic field quench displays weakly damped oscillations with universal quality factor.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5317,
  title  = {Two-impurity helical Majorana problem},
  author = {E. Eriksson and A. Zazunov and P. Sodano and R. Egger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5317},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, replaced with published version

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