• 文献标题:   Effective model for Majorana modes in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MANESCO ALR, WEBER G, RODRIGUES D
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sao Paulo
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.100.125411
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

It was recently proposed that the interface between a graphene nanoribbon in the canted antiferromagnetic quantum Hall state and a s-wave superconductor may present topological superconductivity, resulting in the appearance of Majorana zero modes [San-Jose et al., Phys. Rev. X 5, 041042 (2015)]. However, a description of the low-energy physics in terms of experimentally controllable parameters was still missing. Starting from a mean-field continuum model for graphene in proximity to a superconductor, we derive the low-energy effective Hamiltonian describing the interface of this heterojunction from first principles. A comparison between tight-binding simulations and analytical calculations with effective masses suggests that normal reflections at the interface must be considered in order to fully describe the low-energy physics.