Wednesday, February 29, 2012

1202.6357 (Nicolas Didier et al.)

Josephson-Majorana cycle in topological single-electron hybrid
transistors
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Nicolas Didier, Marco Gibertini, Ali G. Moghaddam, Jürgen König, Rosario Fazio
Charge transport through a small topological superconducting island in contact with a normal and a superconducting electrode occurs through a cycle which involves coherent oscillations of Cooper pairs and tunneling in/out the normal electrode through a Majorana bound state, the Josephson-Majorana cycle. We illustrate this mechanism by studying the current-voltage characteristics of two-terminal superconductor-topological superconductor-normal metal single-electron transistors. At low bias and temperature the Josephson-Majorana cycle is the dominant mechanism for transport.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6357

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