{
  "id": "1201.1918",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2012-01-09T21:00:14.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-10-25T00:24:59.000Z",
  "title": "Josephson Current through a Semiconductor Nanowire: effect of strong spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting",
  "authors": [
    "Meng Cheng",
    "Roman M. Lutchyn"
  ],
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 86, 134522 (2012)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.86.134522",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.supr-con"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study coherent transport through a semiconductor nanowire in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting due to an applied magnetic field. By employing analytical and numerical techniques we develop a theory for the Josephson effect in the superconductor-semiconductor nanowire-superconductor structure. We show that Josephson current through the clean semiconductor nanowire exhibits a number of interesting features due to the interplay between the Zeeman splitting and spin-orbit coupling. We also study effect how disorder in the nanowire affects Andreev bound-state energy spectrum and calculate local density of states at the junction.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2012-10-25T00:24:59.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "74.78.Na",
      "74.20.Mn",
      "74.50.+r",
      "74.81.Fa"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "semiconductor nanowire",
      "zeeman splitting",
      "josephson current",
      "strong spin-orbit coupling",
      "nanowire affects andreev bound-state energy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 86,
      "number": 13,
      "pages": 134522
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvB..86m4522C"
    }
  }
}