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Chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in a twisted array of proximitized quantum wires

Superconductivity 2021-03-10 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

A superconductor with px+ipyp_x+ip_y 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 pp-wave superconductor. Two such arrays, stacked on top of one another with a twist angle close to 9090^\circ, spontaneously break time reversal symmetry and form a robust, fully gapped px+ipyp_x+ip_y 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

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