Strongly interacting Majorana modes in an array of Josephson junctions
Strongly interacting Majorana modes in an array of Josephson junctions
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DOI:
10.1088/1367-2630/14/12/125018
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发表时间:
2012-12-31
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Schuricht, Dirk
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作者:
Hassler, Fabian;Schuricht, Dirk
An array of superconducting islands with semiconducting nanowires in the right regime provides a macroscopic implementation of Kitaev's toy model for Majorana wires. We show that a capacitive coupling between adjacent islands leads to an effective interaction between the Majorana modes. We demonstrate that, even though strong repulsive interaction eventually drives the system into a Mott insulating state, the competition between the (trivial) band insulator and the (trivial) Mott insulator leads to an interjacent topological insulating state for arbitrary strong interactions.