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arxiv: 1409.1877 · v2 · pith:NB5SUSB4new · submitted 2014-09-05 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall

Density of states at disorder-induced phase transitions in a multichannel Majorana wire

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keywords varepsilontransitionswirealphadensityphaseproptosingularity
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An $N$-channel spinless p-wave superconducting wire is known to go through a series of $N$ topological phase transitions upon increasing the disorder strength. Here, we show that at each of those transitions the density of states shows a Dyson singularity $\nu(\varepsilon) \propto \varepsilon^{-1}|\ln\varepsilon|^{-3} $, whereas $\nu(\varepsilon) \propto \varepsilon^{|\alpha|-1}$ has a power-law singularity for small energies $\varepsilon$ away from the critical points. Using the concept of "superuniversality" [Gruzberg, Read, and Vishveshwara, Phys. Rev. B 71, 245124 (2005)], we are able to relate the exponent $\alpha$ to the wire's transport properties at zero energy and, hence, to the mean free path $l$ and the superconducting coherence length $\xi$.

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