Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-02-15
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
20 pages, 6 figures; v3: Extensively revised version; added new figures and corrected the calculation of the current by taking
Scientific paper
We investigate the Josephson effect for a setup with two lattice quantum wires featuring Majorana zero energy boundary modes at the tunnel junction. In the weak-coupling, the exact solution reproduces the perturbative result for the energy containing a contribution $\sim \pm\cos(\phi/2)$ relative to the tunneling of paired Majorana fermions. As the tunnel amplitude $g$ grows relative to the hopping amplitude $w$, the gap between the energy levels gradually diminishes until it closes completely at the critical value $g_c=\sqrt{2}w$. At this point the Josephson energies have the principal values $E_{m\sigma}=2\sigma\sqrt{2}w\cos[\phi/6+2\pi (m-1)/3]$, where $m=-1,0,1$ and $\sigma=\pm 1$, a result not following from perturbation theory. It represents a transparent regime where three Bogoliubov states merge, leading to additional degeneracies of the topologically nontrivial ground state with odd number of Majorana fermions at the end of each wire. We also obtain the exact tunnel currents for a fixed parity of the eigenstates. The Josephson current shows the characteristic $4\pi$ periodicity expected for a topological Josephson effect. We discuss the additional features of the current associated with a closure of the energy gap between the energy levels.
Eremin Ilya
Nogueira Flavio S.
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