Density of states at disorder-induced phase transitions in a multichannel Majorana wire

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关键词: CONJUGATED DIATOMIC POLYMER;    DIAGONAL DISORDER;    QUANTUM WIRES;    SPIN CHAINS;    TRANSPORT;    BEHAVIOR;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.90.205404

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

An N-channel spinless p-wave superconducting wire is known to go through a series of N topological phase transitions upon increasing the disorder strength. Here, we show that at each of those transitions the density of states shows a Dyson singularity nu(epsilon) proportional to epsilon(-1)vertical bar ln epsilon vertical bar(-3), whereas nu(epsilon) proportional to epsilon(vertical bar alpha vertical bar-1) has a power-law singularity for small energies e away from the critical points. Using the concept of superuniversality [Gruzberg et al., Phys. Rev. B 71, 245124 (2005)], we are able to relate the exponent a to the wire's transport properties at zero energy and, hence, to the mean free path l and the superconducting coherence length xi.

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