Multiple topological transitions driven by the interplay of normal scattering and Andreev scattering

A. A. Kopasov; A. S. Mel'nikov

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054515

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Multiple topological transitions driven by the interplay of normal scattering and Andreev scattering

A. A. Kopasov, A. S. Mel'nikov

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054515 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The effect of multiple topological transitions for electron-hole excitations is discovered in full shell proximitized semiconducting nanowires with trapped superconducting vortices, recently shown to be a promising platform for the realization of Majorana states at moderate longitudinal magnetic fields. The mechanism of such multiple transitions is uncovered and explained to be governed by the interplay of normal and Andreev reflections from the shell and by the textured spin-orbit coupling inside the semiconductor. The extensive analysis of emerging propagating and Majorana-type evanescent quasiparticle modes in such Andreev waveguides is performed. Experimentally, these modes reveal themselves in peculiarities of charge and spin-polarized heat transport.

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