Detecting the Majorana Fermion Surface State of He-3-B through Spin Relaxation

作者:Chung Suk Bum*; Zhang Shou Cheng
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2009, 103(23): 235301.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.235301

摘要

The Majorana fermion, which can be useful for topological quantum computation, has eluded detection. He-3-B, recently shown to be a time-reversal invariant topological superfluid, has a gapless Majorana fermion surface state. We show here that an electron spin relaxation experiment can detect this surface state-its Majorana nature through the Zeeman field direction dependence of the relaxation time 1/T-1 proportional to sin(2)theta, where theta is the angle between the field and the surface normal. We propose an experimental setup where an electron inside a nanobubble is injected below the He-3 liquid surface.

  • 出版日期2009-12-4