Half-quantum vortices on c-axis domain walls in chiral p-wave superconductors
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Non-Abelian statistics of half-quantum vortices in p-wave superconductors.
Excitation spectrum of a half-quantum vortex in a p-wave superconductor contains a zero-energy Majorana fermion. This results in a degeneracy of the ground state of the system of several vortices. From the properties of the solutions to Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations in the vortex core we derive the non-Abelian statistics of vortices identical to that for the Moore-Read (Pfaffian) quantum Hall ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: New Journal of Physics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abafe8