Majorana flat bands and unidirectional Majorana edge states in gapless topological superconductors
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Wong, Chris L. M.
Liu, Jie
Law, Kam Tuen
Lee, Patrick A.
Date Issued
August 2013
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Physical Review B
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American Physical Society
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Wong, Chris L. M., Jie Liu, K. T. Law, and Patrick A. Lee. “Majorana Flat Bands and Unidirectional Majorana Edge States in Gapless Topological Superconductors.” Phys. Rev. B 88, no. 6 (August 2013). © 2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We show that an in-plane magnetic field can drive a fully gapped p ± ip topological superconductor into a gapless phase which supports Majorana flat bands (MFBs). Unlike previous examples, the MFBs in the gapless regime are protected from disorder by a chiral symmetry. In addition, novel unidirectional Majorana edge states (MESs) which propagate in the same direction on opposite edges appear when the chiral symmetry is broken by Rashba terms. Unlike the usual chiral or helical edge states, unidirectional MESs appear only in systems with a gapless bulk. The MFBs and the unidirectional MESs induce nearly quantized zero bias conductance in tunneling experiments.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.060504
