Quantizing Majorana fermions in a superconductor
A Dirac-type matrix equation governs surface excitations in a topological insulator in contact with an s-wave superconductor. The order parameter can be homogenous or vortex valued. In the homogenous case a winding number can be defined whose nonvanishing value signals topological effects. A vortex...
Main Authors: | Jackiw, Roman, Nishida, Yusuke, Santos, L., Chamon, Claudio, Pi, So-Young |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Physical Society
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60849 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-2911 |
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