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STM as a single Majorana detector of Kitaevs chiral spin liquid

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 نشر من قبل Masafumi Udagawa
 تاريخ النشر 2020
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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In this letter, we propose a local detection scheme for the Majorana zero mode (MZM) carried by a vison in Kitaevs chiral spin liquid (CSL) using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The STM introduces a single Majorana into the system through hole/charge injection and the Majorana interacts with the MZM to form a stable composite object. We derive the exact analytical expression of single-hole Greens function in the Mott insulating limit of Kitaevs model and show that the differential conductance has split peaks, as a consequence of resonant tunneling through the vison-hole composite. The peak splitting scales with the binding energy of vison-hole composite, which is comparable to the Majorana gap in CSL, well within the reach of experimental observation.


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