Boundary Green's function approach for spinful single-channel and multichannel Majorana nanowires
arXiv:1912.07003 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.094511
Abstract
The boundary Green's function (bGF) approach has been established as a powerful theoretical technique for computing the transport properties of tunnel-coupled hybrid nanowire devices. Such nanowires may exhibit topologically nontrivial superconducting phases with Majorana bound states at their boundaries. We introduce a general method for computing the bGF of spinful multi-channel lattice models for such Majorana nanowires, where the bGF is expressed in terms of the roots of a secular polynomial evaluated in complex momentum space. In many cases, those roots, and thus the bGF, can be accurately described by simple analytical expressions, while otherwise our approach allows for the numerically efficient evaluation of bGFs. We show that from the behavior of the roots, many physical quantities of key interest can be inferred, e.g., the value of bulk topological invariants, the energy dependence of the local density of states, or the spatial decay of subgap excitations. We apply the method to single- and two-channel nanowires of symmetry class D or DIII. In addition, we study the spectral properties of multi-terminal Josephson junctions made out of such Majorana nanowires.
arXiv comment16 pages, 11 figures
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