Resilience of topological superconductivity under particle current
Alfonso Maiellaro, Francesco Romeo, Fabrizio Illuminati, Roberta Citro
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.064505 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We investigate the robustness of topological superconductors under the perturbing influence of a finite charge current. To this aim, we introduce a modified Kitaev Hamiltonian parametrically dependent on the quasiparticle momentum induced by the current. Using different quantifiers of the topological phase, such as the Majorana polarization and the edge state quantum conditional mutual information, we prove the existence of a finite critical value of the quasiparticle momentum below which edge modes and topological superconductivity survive. We also discuss how a finite current breaks time reversal symmetry and changes the topological class in the Altland-Zirnbauer classification scheme compared to the case of isolated systems. Our findings provide a nontrivial example of the interplay between topology and the nonequilibrium physics of open quantum systems, a relation of crucial importance in the quest to a viable topological quantum electronics.
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