{
  "id": "1206.1581",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-06-07T19:05:03.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-06-07T19:05:03.000Z",
  "title": "Magneto-Josephson effects in junctions with Majorana bound states",
  "authors": [
    "Liang Jiang",
    "David Pekker",
    "Jason Alicea",
    "Gil Refael",
    "Yuval Oreg",
    "Arne Brataas",
    "Felix von Oppen"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages, 3 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 87, 075438 (2013)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.87.075438",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.supr-con",
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We investigate 1D quantum systems that support Majorana bound states at interfaces between topologically distinct regions. In particular, we show that there exists a duality between particle-hole and spin degrees of freedom in certain spin-orbit-coupled 1D platforms such as topological insulator edges. This duality results in a spin analogue of previously explored `fractional Josephson effects'---that is, the spin current flowing across a magnetic junction exhibits 4\\pi-periodicity in the relative magnetic field angle across the junction. Furthermore, the interplay between the particle-hole and spin degrees of freedom results in unconventional magneto-Josephson effects, such that the Josephson current is a function of the magnetic field orientation with periodicity 4\\pi.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-06-07T19:05:03.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "71.10.Pm",
      "03.67.Lx",
      "73.63.Nm",
      "74.78.Na"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "support majorana bound states",
      "spin degrees",
      "fractional josephson effects",
      "relative magnetic field angle",
      "1d quantum systems"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 87,
      "number": 7,
      "pages": "075438"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2013PhRvB..87g5438J"
    }
  }
}