All-electrical spectroscopy of topological phases in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures
arXiv:2002.06092 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.075437
Abstract
Semiconductors in the proximity of superconductors have been proposed to support phases hosting Majorana bound states. When the systems undergo a topological phase transition towards the Majorana phase, the spectral gap closes, then reopens, and the quasiparticle band spin polarization is inverted. We focus on two paradigmatic semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures and propose an all-electrical spectroscopic probe sensitive to the spin inversion at the topological transition. Our proposal relies on the indirect coupling of a time-dependent electric field to the electronic spin due to the strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the semiconductor. We analyze within linear response theory the dynamical correlation functions and demonstrate that some components of the susceptibility can be used to detect the nontrivial topological phases.
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