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Sea of Majorana fermions from pseudo-scalar superconducting order in three dimensional Dirac materials

We suggest that spin-singlet pseudo-scalar s-wave superconducting pairing creates a two dimensional sea of Majorana fermions on the surface of three dimensional Dirac superconductors (3DDS). This pseudo-scalar superconducting order parameter Δ(5), in competition with scalar Dirac mass m, leads to a...

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Autores principales: Salehi, Morteza, Jafari, S. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07298-2
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description We suggest that spin-singlet pseudo-scalar s-wave superconducting pairing creates a two dimensional sea of Majorana fermions on the surface of three dimensional Dirac superconductors (3DDS). This pseudo-scalar superconducting order parameter Δ(5), in competition with scalar Dirac mass m, leads to a topological phase transition due to band inversion. We find that a perfect Andreev-Klein reflection is guaranteed by presence of anomalous Andreev reflection along with the conventional one. This effect manifests itself in a resonant peak of the differential conductance. Furthermore, Josephson current of the Δ(5)|m|Δ(5) junction in the presence of anomalous Andreev reflection is fractional with 4π period. Our finding suggests another search area for condensed matter realization of Majorana fermions which are beyond the vortex-core of p-wave superconductors. The required Δ(5) pairing can be extrinsically induced by a conventional s-wave superconductor into a three dimensional Dirac material (3DDM).
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spelling pubmed-55578602017-08-16 Sea of Majorana fermions from pseudo-scalar superconducting order in three dimensional Dirac materials Salehi, Morteza Jafari, S. A. Sci Rep Article We suggest that spin-singlet pseudo-scalar s-wave superconducting pairing creates a two dimensional sea of Majorana fermions on the surface of three dimensional Dirac superconductors (3DDS). This pseudo-scalar superconducting order parameter Δ(5), in competition with scalar Dirac mass m, leads to a topological phase transition due to band inversion. We find that a perfect Andreev-Klein reflection is guaranteed by presence of anomalous Andreev reflection along with the conventional one. This effect manifests itself in a resonant peak of the differential conductance. Furthermore, Josephson current of the Δ(5)|m|Δ(5) junction in the presence of anomalous Andreev reflection is fractional with 4π period. Our finding suggests another search area for condensed matter realization of Majorana fermions which are beyond the vortex-core of p-wave superconductors. The required Δ(5) pairing can be extrinsically induced by a conventional s-wave superconductor into a three dimensional Dirac material (3DDM). Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5557860/ /pubmed/28811484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07298-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811484
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