Thursday, September 6, 2012

1209.0930 (Jiabin You et al.)

Majorana fermions in s-wave noncentrosymmetric superconductor with
Rashba and Dresselhaus (110) spin-orbit couplings
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Jiabin You, C. H. Oh, Vlatko Vedral
The asymmetric spin-orbit (SO) interactions play a crucial role in realizing topological phases in noncentrosymmetric superconductor (NCS).We investigate the edge states and the vortex core states in s-wave NCS with Rashba and Dresselhaus (110) SO couplings by both numerical and analytical methods. In particular, we demonstrate that there exists a novel semimetal phase characterized by the flat Andreev bound states in the phase diagram of the s-wave Dresselhaus NCS which supports the emergence of Majorana fermion (MF). The flat dispersion implies a peak in the density of states which has a clear experimental signature in the tunneling conductance measurements and the MFs proposed here should be experimentally detectable.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0930

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