Suppression of the overlap between Majorana fermions by orbital magnetic effects in semiconducting-superconducting nanowires
Olesia Dmytruk, Jelena Klinovaja
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.155409 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We study both analytically and numerically the role of orbital effects caused by a magnetic field applied along the axis of a semiconducting Rashba nanowire in the topological regime hosting Majorana fermions. We demonstrate that the orbital effects can be effectively taken into account in a one-dimensional model by shifting the chemical potential and thus modifying the topological criterion. We focus on the energy splitting between two Majorana fermions in a finite nanowire and find a striking interplay between orbital and Zeeman effects on this splitting. In the limit of strong spin-orbit interaction, we find regimes where the amplitude of the oscillating splitting stays constant or even decays with increasing the magnetic field, in stark contrast to the commonly studied case where orbital effects of the magnetic field are neglected. The period of these oscillations is found to be almost constant in many parameter regimes.
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