Majorana Fermions in Semiconducting Nanowires on the Top of Fulde-Ferrell Superconductor

Abstract

The novel idea that spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and $s$-wave pairing can lead to induced $p$-wave pairing at strong magnetic limit has stimulated widespread interests in the whole community for the searching of Majorana Fermions (MFs), a self-hermitian particle, in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures. However, this system has several inherent limitations that prohibit the realization and identification of MFs with the major advances of semiconductor nanotechnology. We show that these limitations can be resolved by replacing the $s$-wave superconductor with type-II Fulde-Ferrell (FF) superconductor, in which the Cooper pair center-of-mass momentum plays the role of renormalizing the in-plane Zeeman field and chemical potential. As a result, the MFs can be realized for semiconductor nanowires with small Landé $g$ factor and high carrier density. The SOC strength directly influences the topological boundary, thus the topological phase transition and associated MFs can be engineered by an external electric field. Almost all the semiconductor nanowires can be used to realize MFs in this new platform. In particular, we find that InP nanowire, in some aspects, is more suitable for the realization of MFs than InAs and InSb nanowires. This new platform therefore can integrate the advances of semiconductor nanotechnology to the realization and identification of MFs in this hybrid structure.

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