Majorana fermions in spin-orbit-coupled ferromagnetic Josephson junctions
Abstract
We study all possible Majorana modes in two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled ferromagnetic superconductor-normal state-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions and propose experiments to detect them. With the S region in a nontrivial topological phase and a superconducting phase difference φ=π across the junction, two delocalized Majorana fermions with no excitation gap appear in the N region. In addition, if S and N belong to different topological phases and have well separated the Fermi surfaces, localized Majorana fermions with a finite excitation gap also emerge at both SN interfaces for all φ.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- November 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1106.1801
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvB..84r0509B
- Keywords:
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- 74.45.+c;
- 71.10.Pm;
- 03.67.Lx;
- Proximity effects;
- Andreev effect;
- SN and SNS junctions;
- Fermions in reduced dimensions;
- Quantum computation;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures. Published version