Unconventional Josephson Signatures of Majorana Bound States

作者:Jiang Liang*; Pekker David; Alicea Jason; Refael Gil; Oreg Yuval; von Oppen Felix
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2011, 107(23): 236401.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.236401

摘要

A junction between two topological superconductors containing a pair of Majorana fermions exhibits a "fractional" Josephson effect, 4 pi 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.

  • 出版日期2011-11-28