Braiding higher-order Majorana corner states through their spin degree of freedom

Abstract

In this work, we study the spin texture of a class of higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSC) and show how it can be used to detect and braid Majorana corner modes (MCMs). This class of HOTSC is composed of two-dimensional topological insulators with s-wave superconductivity and in-plane magnetic fields, which offers advantages in experimental implementation. The spin polarization of the MCMs in this class is perpendicular with the applied magnetic field direction and is opposite on intrinsic orbitals, resulting in an overall ferrimagnetic spin texture. As a result, we find that the spin-selective Andreev reflection can be observed in a transverse instead of parallel direction to the applied magnetic field. Meanwhile, this spin texture leads to the gate-tunable $4\pi$ periodic ${\varphi }_0$ Josephson current that performs qualitatively different behavior from the topologically trivial ${\varphi }_0$-junction under rotating the in-plane magnetic field. Meanwhile, the existence of the MCMs in this class does not depend on the in-plane magnetic field direction. This gives rise to great advantage in constructing all electronically controlled Majorana network for braiding, which is confirmed through our numerical simulation. We thus provide a comprehensive scheme for probing non-Abelian statistics in this class of HOTSCs.

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