Majorana Bound States in Double Nanowires with Reduced Zeeman Thresholds due to Supercurrents

Abstract

We study the topological phase diagram of a setup composed of two nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction subjected to an external magnetic field and brought into the proximity to a bulk $s$-wave superconductor in the presence of a supercurrent flowing through it. The supercurrent reduces the critical values of the Zeeman energy and crossed Andreev superconducting pairing required to reach the topological phase characterized by the presence of one Majorana bound state localized at each system end. We demonstrate that, even in the regime of the crossed Andreev pairing being smaller than the direct proximity pairing, a relatively weak magnetic field drives the system into the topological phase due to the presence of the supercurrent.

arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures

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