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arxiv: 1807.03943 · v1 · pith:3V7A3BAUnew · submitted 2018-07-11 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall

Distribution of Conductances in Chiral Topological Superconductor Junctions

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keywords chiralconductancesdisorderdistributionfermionjunctionmajoranaquantized
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We study the electronic transport of heterojunctions made of chiral topological superconductors (TSCs) with $N$ chiral Majorana fermion modes and quantum Hall insulators (QHIs) with integer Chern number $C$. In the weak disorder regime, we show the two-terminal conductance $\sigma_{12}$ of a QHI-TSC-QHI junction is generically non-quantized, but obeys a certain distribution determined by $C$ and $N$, which is induced by random SO($N$) rotations of chiral Majorana fermion mode basis on the TSC edges. Oppositely, in the strong disorder regime, $\sigma_{12}$ tends to be a quantized value. We conclude with a brief discussion on the fractionally quantized thermal conductances of the junction.

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