Evolution of the transmission phase through a Coulomb-blockaded Majorana wire
arXiv:1806.01399 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.161401
Abstract
We present a study of the transmission of electrons through a semiconductor quantum wire with strong spin-orbit coupling in proximity to an s-wave superconductor, which is Coulomb-blockaded. Such a system supports Majorana zero modes in the presence of an external magnetic field. Without superconductivity, phase lapses are expected to occur in the transmission phase, and we find that they disappear when a topological superconducting phase is stabilized. We express tunneling through the nanowire with the help of effective matrix elements, which depend on both the fermion parity of the wire and the overlap with Bogoliubov-de-Gennes wave functions. Using a modified scattering matrix formalism, that allows for including electron-electron interactions, we study the transmission phase in different regimes.
arXiv comment11 pages, 3 figures
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