Quantum Resistor-Capacitor Circuit with Majorana Fermions

  • IFISC Seminar

  • Mahn-Soo Choi
  • Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  • April 2, 2014, 2:30 p.m.
  • IFISC Seminar Room
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As electronic circuit is miniaturized on the nanometer scale, quantum
coherence takes effect and transport properties get fundamentally
different. For a ballistic conductor, Ohm's law breaks down and the
conductance is quantized to multiples of h/e^2, where h is the Planck
constant and e is the electron charge. For a small resistor-capacitor
circuit, the charge relaxation resistance is also quantized to R_Q/2. We
investigate the mesoscopic resistor-capacitor circuit consisting of a quantum
dot coupled to spatially separated Majorana fermion modes in a chiral
topological superconductor. The primary goal is to identify the role of each
Majorana mode in relaxation resistance and compare it to the case of Dirac
fermion mode.



We find substantially enhanced relaxation resistance due to the nature of
Majorana fermions, which are their own anti-particles and composed of particle
and hole excitations in the same abundance. Further, if only a single
Majorana mode is involved, the zero-frequency relaxation resistance is
completely suppressed due to a destructive interference. As a result, the
Majorana mode opens an exotic dissipative channel on a superconductor which is
typically regarded as dissipationless due to its finite superconducting gap.


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