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Zero Bias Conductance Peak in Dirac Semimetal-Superconductor Devices
| العنوان: | Zero Bias Conductance Peak in Dirac Semimetal-Superconductor Devices |
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| المؤلفون: | Yu, W., Haenel, Rafael, Rodriguez, M. A., Lee, S. R., Zhang, F., Franz, M., Pikulin, D. I., Pan, W. |
| المصدر: | Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032002 (2020) |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Condensed Matter |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science |
| الوصف: | Majorana zero modes (MZMs), fundamental building blocks for realizing topological quantum computers, can appear at the interface between a superconductor and a topological material. One of the experimental signatures that has been widely pursued to confirm the existence of MZMs is the observation of a large, quantized zero-bias conductance peak (ZBCP) in the differential conductance measurements. In this Letter, we report observation of such a large ZBCP in junction structures of normal metal (titanium/gold Ti/Au) + Dirac semimetal (cadmium arsenide Cd3As2) + conventional superconductor (aluminum Al), with a value close to four times that of the normal state conductance. Our detailed analyses suggest that this large ZBCP is most likely not caused by MZMs. We attribute the ZBCP, instead, to the existence of a supercurrent between two far-separated superconducting Al electrodes, which shows up as a zero-bias peak because of the circuitry and thermal fluctuations of the supercurrent phase, a mechanism conceived by Ivanchenko and Zil'berman more than 50 years ago [JETP 28, 1272 (1969)]. Our results thus call for extreme caution when assigning the origin of a large ZBCP to MZMs in a multiterminal semiconductor or topological insulator/semimetal setup. We thus provide criteria for identifying when the ZBCP is definitely not caused by an MZM. Furthermore, we present several remarkable experimental results of a supercurrent effect occurring over unusually long distances and clean perfect Andreev reflection features. Comment: with Supplemental Material, which includes theoretical modeling, experimental raw data sets used in Figure 3, and data fitting code |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.032002 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08146Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.1909.08146 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.032002 |
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