Dynamic current susceptibility as a probe of Majorana bound states in nanowire-based Josephson junctions

Abstract

We theoretically study a Josephson junction based on a semiconducting nanowire subject to a time-dependent flux bias. We establish a general density matrix approach for the dynamical response of the Majorana junction and calculate the resulting flux-dependent susceptibility using both microscopic and effective low-energy descriptions for the nanowire. We find that the diagonal component of the susceptibility, associated with the dynamics of the Majorana states populations, dominates over the standard Kubo contribution for a wide range of experimentally relevant parameters. The diagonal term, thus far unexplored in the context of Majorana physics, allows to probe accurately the presence of Majorana bound states in the junction.

5 pages, 3 figures, 15 pages of supplemental material

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