Chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in a twisted array of proximitized quantum wires
Abstract
A superconductor with order has long fascinated the physics community because vortex defects in such a system host Majorana zero modes. Here we propose a simple construction of a chiral superconductor using proximitized quantum wires and twist angle engineering as basic ingredients. We show that a weakly coupled parallel array of such wires forms a gapless -wave superconductor. Two such arrays, stacked on top of one another with a twist angle close to , spontaneously break time reversal symmetry and form a robust, fully gapped superconductor. We map out topological phases of the proposed system, demonstrate existence of Majorana zero modes in vortices, and discuss prospects for experimental realization.
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@article{arxiv.2012.03986,
title = {Chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in a twisted array of proximitized quantum wires},
author = {Tarun Tummuru and Oguzhan Can and Marcel Franz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03986},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures; supplementary material