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Title: Signatures of Parafermion Zero Modes in Fractional Quantum Hall-Superconductor Heterostructures

Abstract: Parafermion zero modes can arise in hybrid structures composed of $\nu=1/m$ fractional quantum Hall edges proximitized with an s-wave superconductor. Here we consider parafermion and Cooper pair tunneling, and backscattering in a junction formed in such hybrid structures. We find that the $4\pi m$ periodicity due to parafermion-only tunneling reduces, in the presence of backscattering, to $4\pi$-periodic at zero temperature and $2\pi$-periodic at finite temperature unless the fermion parity is fixed. Nevertheless, a clear signature of parafermion tunneling remains in the shape of the current-phase relation.
Comments: v1: 6 pages, 4 figures; v2: 8 pages, 5 figures, appendix added
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. B 109, L161106 (2024)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L161106
Cite as: arXiv:2309.14411 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2309.14411v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Junyi Cao [view email]
[v1] Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:00:00 GMT (1481kb,D)
[v2] Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:07:17 GMT (1520kb,D)

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