Generic quantized zero-bias conductance peaks in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures

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العنوان: Generic quantized zero-bias conductance peaks in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures
المؤلفون: Pan, Haining, Cole, William S., Sau, Jay D., Sarma, S. Das
المصدر: Phys. Rev. B 101, 024506 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
الوصف: We show theoretically that quantized zero-bias conductance peaks should be ubiquitous in superconductor-semiconductor hybrids by employing a zero-dimensional random matrix model with continuous tuning parameters. We demonstrate that a normal metal-superconductor (NS) junction conductance spectra can be generically obtained in this model replicating all features seen in recent experimental results. The theoretical quantized conductance peaks, which explicitly do not arise from spatially isolated Majorana zero modes, are easily found by preparing a contour plot of conductance over several independent tuning parameters, mimicking the effect of Zeeman splitting and voltages on gates near the junction. This suggests that, even stable apparently quantized conductance peaks need not correspond to isolated Majorana modes; rather, the $\textit{a priori}$ expectation should be that such quantized peaks generically occupy a significant fraction of the high-dimensional tuning parameter space that characterizes the NS tunneling experiments.
Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.024506
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08193
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1906.08193
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv