Anomalous Modulation of a Zero-Bias Peak in a Hybrid Nanowire-Superconductor Device
Abstract
We report on transport measurements of an InAs nanowire coupled to niobium nitride leads at high magnetic fields. We observe a zero-bias anomaly (ZBA) in the differential conductance of the nanowire for certain ranges of magnetic field and chemical potential. The ZBA can oscillate in width with either the magnetic field or chemical potential; it can even split and re-form. We discuss how our results relate to recent predictions of hybridizing Majorana fermions in semiconducting nanowires, while considering more mundane explanations.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.126406
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1212.1101
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvL.110l6406F
- Keywords:
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- 71.10.Pm;
- 73.63.Nm;
- 74.45.+c;
- 74.78.Na;
- Fermions in reduced dimensions;
- Quantum wires;
- Proximity effects;
- Andreev effect;
- SN and SNS junctions;
- Mesoscopic and nanoscale systems;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 7 figures