Zero energy states clustering in an elemental nanowire coupled to a superconductor

Nanoelectronic hybrid devices combining superconductors and a one-dimensional nanowire are promising platforms to realize topological superconductivity and its resulting exotic excitations. The bulk of experimental studies in this context are transport measurements where conductance peaks allow to p...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-11
Main Authors: Contamin, L C, Jarjat, L, Legrand, W, Cottet, A, Kontos, T, Delbecq, M R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Carbon nanotubes
Circuits
Clustering
Electron states
Excitation
Matrix theory
Nanowires
Phenomenology
Platforms
Predictions
Superconductivity
Superconductors
Topology
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Summary:Nanoelectronic hybrid devices combining superconductors and a one-dimensional nanowire are promising platforms to realize topological superconductivity and its resulting exotic excitations. The bulk of experimental studies in this context are transport measurements where conductance peaks allow to perform a spectroscopy of the low lying electronic states and potentially to identify signatures of the aforementioned excitations. The complexity of the experimental landscape calls for a benchmark in an elemental situation. The present work tackles such a task using an ultra-clean carbon nanotube circuit. Specifically, we show that the combination of magnetic field, weak disorder and superconductivity can lead to states clustering at low energy, as predicted by the random matrix theory predictions. Such a phenomenology is very general and should apply to most platforms trying to realize topological superconductivity in 1D systems, thus calling for alternative probes to reveal it.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2209.02996