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Unconventional Josephson Signatures of Majorana Bound States

Jiang, Liang and Pekker, David and Alicea, Jason and Refael, Gil and Oreg, Yuval and von Oppen, Felix (2011) Unconventional Josephson Signatures of Majorana Bound States. Physical Review Letters, 107 (23). p. 236401. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.236401. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120104-113454842

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Abstract

A junction between two topological superconductors containing a pair of Majorana fermions exhibits a “fractional” Josephson effect, 4π periodic in the superconductors’ phase difference. An additional fractional Josephson effect, however, arises when the Majorana fermions are spatially separated by a superconducting barrier. This new term gives rise to a set of Shapiro steps which are essentially absent without Majorana modes and therefore provides a unique signature for these exotic states.


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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.236401DOIArticle
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4102arXivDiscussion Paper
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Jiang, Liang0000-0002-0000-9342
Alicea, Jason0000-0001-9979-3423
Additional Information:© 2011 American Physical Society. Received 27 July 2011; published 28 November 2011. It is a pleasure to thank M. P. A. Fisher, L. Glazman, J. Preskill, A. Kitaev, A. Stern, J. Meyer, K. Shtengel, C. Marcus, L. Kouwenhoven, and B. Halperin for useful discussions, and the Aspen Center for Physics for hospitality. We are also grateful for support from BSF, SPP1285 (DFG), the Packard Foundation, the Sherman-Fairchild Foundation, the Moore Foundation funded CEQS, and the NSF through Grant No. DMR-1055522 and IQI Grants No. PHY-0456720 and No. PHY-0803371.
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Funding AgencyGrant Number
Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel)UNSPECIFIED
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)SPP1285
David and Lucile Packard FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Sherman Fairchild FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationUNSPECIFIED
NSFDMR-1055522
NSFPHY-0456720
NSFPHY-0803371
Issue or Number:23
Classification Code:PACS: 71.10.Pm, 03.67.Lx, 73.63.Nm, 74.78.Na
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.236401
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