Signatures of topological phase transitions in mesoscopic superconducting rings

We investigate Josephson currents in mesoscopic rings with a weak link which are in or near a topological superconducting phase. As a paradigmatic example, we consider the Kitaev model of a spinless p-wave superconductor in one dimension, emphasizing how this model emerges from more realistic settin...

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Main Authors: Falko Pientka, Alessandro Romito, Mathias Duckheim, Yuval Oreg, Felix von Oppen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/2/025001