Engineering of Many-Body Majorana States in a Topological Insulator/S-Wave Superconductor Heterostructure

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2018-08-20

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Nature Publishing Group

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We study a vortex chain in a thin film of a topological insulator with proximity-induced superconductivity-a promising platform to realize Majorana zero modes (MZMs)-by modeling it as a two-leg Majorana ladder. While each pair of MZMs hybridizes through vortex tunneling, we hereby show that MZMs can be stabilized on the ends of the ladder with the presence of tilted external magnetic field and four-Majorana interaction. Furthermore, a fruitful phase diagram is obtained by controlling the direction of magnetic field and the thickness of the sample. We reveal many-body Majorana states and interaction-induced topological phase transitions and also identify trivialsuperconducting and commensurate/ incommensurate charge-density-wave states in the phase diagram.

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Quantum groups, Luttinger liquids, Fermions, Bismuth selenide, Anyons

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