Published September 2016
| Version v1
Journal article
Fano fingerprints of Majoranas in Kitaev dimers of superconducting adatoms
Creators
- 1. Departamento de Física e Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 15385-000 Ilha Solteira, São Paulo (Brazil)
- 2. Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas – IGCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Física, 13506-970 Rio Claro, São Paulo (Brazil)
- 3. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, 24210-340 Niterói, RJ (Brazil)
Description
We investigate theoretically a Fano interferometer composed by STM and AFM tips close to a Kitaev dimer of superconducting adatoms, in which the adatom placed under the AFM tip, encloses a pair of Majorana fermions (MFs). For the binding energy Δ of the Cooper pair delocalized into the adatoms under the tips coincident with the tunneling amplitude t between them, namely Δ=t, we find that only one MF beneath the AFM tip hybridizes with the adatom coupled to the STM tips. As a result, a gate invariance feature emerges: the Fano profile of the transmittance rises as an invariant quantity depending upon the STM tips Fermi energy, due to the symmetric swap in the gate potential of the AFM tip.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2016.05.002Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physe.2016.05.002;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1503.00542v5;
- PII
- S1386947716303393;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physica E. Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures (Print)
- Journal Volume
- 83
- Journal Page Range
- p. 297-305
- ISSN
- 1386-9477
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 51117295
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; S77: NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BINDING ENERGY; COOPER PAIRS; DIMERS; MAJORANA FERMIONS; MAJORANA SPINORS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TUNNEL EFFECT
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ENERGY; FERMIONS; MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPINORS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.