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Suppression of odd-frequency pairing by phase disorder in a nanowire coupled to Majorana zero modes
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita). Uppsala University, Sweden.
Number of Authors: 32020 (English)In: Physical Review B, ISSN 2469-9950, E-ISSN 2469-9969, Vol. 101, no 9, article id 094506Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Odd-frequency superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. Majorana zero modes exhibit pure odd-frequency superconducting correlations due to their specific properties. Thus, by tunnel-coupling an array of Majorana zero modes to a spin-polarized wire, it is in principle possible to engineer a bulk one-dimensional odd-frequency spinless s-wave superconductor. We point out here that each tunnel coupling element, being dependent on a large number of material-specific parameters, is generically complex with sample variability in both its magnitude and phase. Using this, we demonstrate that, upon averaging over phase disorder, the induced superconducting, including odd-frequency, correlations in the spin-polarized wire are significantly suppressed. We perform both a rigorous analytical evaluation of the disorder-averaged T matrix in the wire, as well as numerical calculations based on a tight-binding model, and find that the anomalous, i.e., superconducting, part of the T matrix is highly suppressed with phase disorder. We also demonstrate that this suppression is concurrent with the filling of the single-particle excitation gap by smearing the near-zero-frequency peaks, due to formation of bound states that satisfy phase-matching conditions between spatially separated Majorana zero modes. Our results convey important constraints on the parameter control needed in practical realizations of Majorana zero mode structures and suggest that the achievement of a bulk one-dimensional odd-omega superconductivity from Majorana zero modes demand full control of the system parameters.

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2020. Vol. 101, no 9, article id 094506
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Majorana bound states, Odd-frequency superconductivity, Superconducting order parameter
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180600DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.094506ISI: 000518435100002OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-180600DiVA, id: diva2:1425486
Available from: 2020-04-21 Created: 2020-04-21 Last updated: 2022-03-23Bibliographically approved

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