Andreev reflection from non-centrosymmetric superconductors and Majorana bound state generation in half-metallic ferromagnets
| Autor: | Duckheim, Mathias, Brouwer, Piet W. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.054513 |
| Popis: | We study Andreev reflection at an interface between a half metal and a superconductor with spin-orbit interaction. While the absence of minority carriers in the half metal makes singlet Andreev reflection impossible, the spin-orbit interaction gives rise to triplet Andreev reflection, i.e., the reflection of a majority electron into a majority hole or vice versa. As an application of our calculation, we consider a thin half metal film or wire laterally attached to a superconducting contact. If the half metal is disorder free, an excitation gap is opened that is proportional to the spin-orbit interaction strength in the superconductor. For electrons with energy below this gap a lateral half-metal--superconductor contact becomes a perfect triplet Andreev reflector. We show that the system supports localized Majorana end states in this limit. Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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