Crystalline anisotropic topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions

Joseph D. Pakizer; Benedikt Scharf; Alex Matos-Abiague

doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013198

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Crystalline anisotropic topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions

Joseph D. Pakizer, Benedikt Scharf, Alex Matos-Abiague

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013198 · Physical Review Research

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Abstract

We theoretically investigate the crystalline anisotropy of topological phase transitions in phase-controlled planar Josephson junctions (JJs) subject to spin-orbit coupling and in-plane magnetic fields. It is shown how topological superconductivity (TS) is affected by the interplay between the magnetic field and the orientation of the junction with respect to its crystallographic axes. This interplay can be used to electrically tune between different symmetry classes in a controlled fashion and thereby optimize the stability and localization of Majorana bound states in planar Josephson junctions. Our findings can be used as a guide for achieving the most favorable conditions when engineering TS in planar JJs and can be particularly relevant for setups containing noncollinear junctions which have been proposed for performing braiding operations on multiple Majorana pairs.