Odd-frequency superconductivity in a nanowire coupled to Majorana zero modes

Shu-Ping Lee; Roman M. Lutchyn; Joseph Maciejko

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.184506

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Odd-frequency superconductivity in a nanowire coupled to Majorana zero modes

Shu-Ping Lee, Roman M. Lutchyn, Joseph Maciejko

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.184506 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Odd-frequency superconductivity, originally proposed by Berezinskii in 1974, is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. The pair potential is an odd function of frequency, leading to a vanishing static superconducting order parameter and exotic types of pairing seemingly inconsistent with Fermi statistics. Motivated by recent experimental progress in the realization of Majorana zero modes in semiconducting nanowires, we show that odd-frequency superconductivity generically appears in a spin-polarized nanowire coupled to Majorana zero modes. We explicitly calculate the superfluid response and show that it is characterized by a paramagnetic Meissner effect.