Conductance and noise signatures of Majorana backscattering

Details Conductance and noise signatures of Majorana backscattering Conductance and noise signatures of Majorana backscattering

2010-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2003v1

Phys.Rev.B83:100512,2011

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4.1 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.83.100512

We propose a conductance measurement to detect the backscattering of chiral Majorana edge states. Because normal and Andreev processes have equal probability for backscattering of a single chiral Majorana edge state, there is qualitative difference from backscattering of a chiral Dirac edge state, giving rise to half-integer Hall conductivity and decoupling of fluctuation in incoming and outgoing modes. The latter can be detected through thermal noise measurement. These experimental signatures of Majorana fermions are robust at finite temperature and do not require the size of the backscattering region to be mesoscopic.

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