Published September 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Fano fingerprints of Majoranas in Kitaev dimers of superconducting adatoms

  • 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.2016.05.002

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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

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