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Thermopower and Mott formula for a Majorana edge state

Hou, Chang-Yu and Shtengel, Kirill and Refael, Gil (2013) Thermopower and Mott formula for a Majorana edge state. Physical Review B, 88 (7). Art. No. 075304. ISSN 1098-0121. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.075304. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20131106-131944894

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Abstract

We study the thermoelectric effect between a conducting lead and a Majorana edge state. In the tunneling limit, we first use the Landauer-Büttiker formalism to derive the Mott formula relating the thermopower and the differential conductance between a conducting lead and a superconductor. When the tunneling takes place between a conducting lead and a Majorana edge state, we show that a nonvanishing thermopower can exist. Combining measurements of the differential conductance and the voltage induced by the temperature difference between the conducting lead and the edge state, the Mott formula provides a unique way to infer the temperature of the Majorana edge state.


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Additional Information:© 2013 American Physical Society. Received 6 June 2013; revised manuscript received 12 July 2013; published 7 August 2013. The authors would like to thank A. R. Akhmerov and D. Pekker for helpful discussions. C.Y.H. and K.S. were supported in part by the DARPA-QuEST program. K.S. was supported in part by NSF Award No. DMR-0748925. G.R. is grateful for support from the Packard Foundation and the IQIM, an NSF center supported in part by the Moore Foundation.
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DARPA-QuEST ProgramUNSPECIFIED
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Packard FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)UNSPECIFIED
Moore FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:7
Classification Code: PACS: 74.25.fg, 74.55.+v
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.075304
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Official Citation:Thermopower and Mott formula for a Majorana edge state Chang-Yu Hou, Kirill Shtengel, and Gil Refael Published 7 August 2013 (8 pages) 075304
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Deposited By: Ruth Sustaita
Deposited On:06 Nov 2013 21:47
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