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Majorana tunneling entropy
Smirnov, Sergey
(2015)
Majorana tunneling entropy.
Physical Review B (PRB) 92 (19), S. 195312.
Veröffentlichungsdatum dieses Volltextes: 02 Dez 2015 09:40
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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.32961
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In thermodynamics a macroscopic state of a system results from a number of its microscopic states. This number is given by the exponent of the system's entropy exp(S). In noninteracting systems with discrete energy spectra, such as large scale quantum dots, S as a function of the temperature has usually a plateau shape with integer values of exp(S) on these plateaus. Plateaus with noninteger ...
In thermodynamics a macroscopic state of a system results from a number of its microscopic states. This number is given by the exponent of the system's entropy exp(S). In noninteracting systems with discrete energy spectra, such as large scale quantum dots, S as a function of the temperature has usually a plateau shape with integer values of exp(S) on these plateaus. Plateaus with noninteger values of exp(S) are fundamentally forbidden and would be thermodynamically infeasible. Here we investigate the entropy of a noninteracting quantum dot coupled via tunneling to normal metals with continuum spectra as well as to topological superconductors. We show that the entropy may have noninteger plateaus if the topological superconductors support weakly overlapping Majorana bound states. This brings a fundamental change in the thermodynamics of the quantum dot whose specific heat c(V) acquires low-temperature Majorana peaks which should be absent according to the conventional thermodynamics. We also provide a fundamental thermodynamic understanding of the transport properties, such as the linear conductance. In general our results show that the thermodynamics of systems coupled to Majorana modes represents a fundamental physical interest with diverse applications depending on versatility of possible coupling mechanisms.
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| Dokumentenart | Artikel | ||||||||||
| Titel eines Journals oder einer Zeitschrift | Physical Review B (PRB) | ||||||||||
| Verlag: | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | ||||||||||
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| Ort der Veröffentlichung: | COLLEGE PK | ||||||||||
| Band: | 92 | ||||||||||
| Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels: | 19 | ||||||||||
| Seitenbereich: | S. 195312 | ||||||||||
| Datum | 30 November 2015 | ||||||||||
| Institutionen | Physik > Institut für Theoretische Physik | ||||||||||
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| Stichwörter / Keywords | KONDO PROBLEM; | ||||||||||
| Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik | ||||||||||
| Status | Veröffentlicht | ||||||||||
| Begutachtet | Ja, diese Version wurde begutachtet | ||||||||||
| An der Universität Regensburg entstanden | Ja | ||||||||||
| URN der UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-329611 | ||||||||||
| Dokumenten-ID | 32961 |
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