Mapping the Topological Phase Diagram of Multiband Semiconductors with Supercurrents

Abstract

We show that Josephson junctions made of multiband semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling carry a critical supercurrent $I_c$ that contains information about the non-trivial topology of the system. In particular, we find that the emergence and annihilation of Majorana bound states in the junction is reflected in strong even-odd effects in $I_c$ at small junction transparency. This effect allows for a mapping between $I_c$ and the topological phase diagram of the junction, thus providing a dc measurement of its topology.

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