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Smirnov, Sergey

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


Zusammenfassung

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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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftPhysical Review B (PRB)
Verlag:AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Ort der Veröffentlichung:COLLEGE PK
Band:92
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels:19
Seitenbereich:S. 195312
Datum30 November 2015
InstitutionenPhysik > Institut für Theoretische Physik
Identifikationsnummer
WertTyp
10.1103/PhysRevB.92.195312DOI
Klassifikation
NotationArt
74.45.+cPACS
74.25.BtPACS
65.40.gdPACS
74.78.NaPACS
Stichwörter / KeywordsKONDO PROBLEM;
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-329611
Dokumenten-ID32961

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