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arXiv 2002.07779cond-mat.mes-hall
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拓扑平凡自旋轨道耦合纳米线中无束缚态的类Majorana局域自旋密度

Majorana-like localized spin density without bound states in topologically trivial spin-orbit coupled nanowires

Lorenzo Rossi, Fabrizio Dolcini, Fausto Rossi

摘要:

在自旋-轨道耦合纳米线的拓扑阶段中,已知Majorana束缚态局部化在纳米线边缘处,并且表现出与磁场和自旋-轨道场都正交的自旋密度。通过研究纳米线暴露在一个均匀的磁场与不同的自旋轨道耦合区域之间的界面,我们发现,正交自旋密度钉扎在界面处,即使当两个界面侧的拓扑平凡相,甚至当没有束缚态存在。一个平凡的束缚态可能会出现在界面处,特别是如果自旋轨道耦合在界面上取相反的符号。然而,它可以被自旋-轨道轮廓的平滑化或被平行于自旋-轨道场的磁场分量破坏。相反,正交自旋密度在各种实际参数范围内持续存在。我们还表明,虽然体平衡自旋电流的测量一直难以捉摸到目前为止,这种强大的正交自旋密度峰可能提供一种方法来检测跨接口的自旋电流的变化。

英文摘要:

In the topological phase of spin-orbit coupled nanowires Majorana bound states are known to localize at the nanowire edges and to exhibit a spin density orthogonal to both the magnetic field and the spin-orbit field. By investigating a nanowire exposed to a uniform magnetic field with an interface between regions with different spin-orbit couplings, we find that the orthogonal spin density is pinned at the interface even when both interface sides are in the topologically trivial phase, and even when no bound state is present at all. A trivial bound state may additionally appear at the interface, especially if the spin-orbit coupling takes opposite signs across the interface. However, it can be destroyed by a smoothening of the spin-orbit profile or by a magnetic field component parallel to the spin-orbit field. In contrast, the orthogonal spin density persists in various and realistic parameter ranges. We also show that, while the measurement of bulk equilibrium spin currents has been elusive so far, such robust orthogonal spin density peak may provide a way to detect spin current variations across interfaces.

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