Self-consistent superconducting proximity effect at the quantum spin Hall edge
Annica M. Black-Schaffer
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.060504 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We study self-consistently a microscopic interface between a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) and a superconductor (SC), focusing on properties related to Majorana fermion creation. For an s-wave SC we show that odd-in-momentum, or p-wave, order parameters exist for all doping levels of the QSHI and that they can be related to different spinless Cooper pair amplitudes. Despite this, the induced superconducting gap in the QSHI always retains its s-wave character, validating the commonly used effective model for superconductivity in a topological insulator. For a dxy-wave SC, we show that a Majorana mode is only created at finite doping and that there is no excitation gap protecting this mode.
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