Minimal quantum dot based Kitaev chain with only local superconducting proximity effect

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03536v2
• Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:03:03 GMT
• Title: Minimal quantum dot based Kitaev chain with only local superconducting proximity effect
• Authors: William Samuelson, Viktor Svensson, Martin Leijnse
• Abstract summary: We show that it is possible to avoid some of the main experimental hurdles by using only local proximity effect on each quantum dot. There is no need for narrow superconducting couplers, additional Andreev bound states, or spatially varying magnetic fields. We use a realistic spinful, interacting model and show that high-quality Majorana bound states can be generated already in a double quantum dot.
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• Abstract: The possibility to engineer a Kitaev chain in quantum dots coupled via superconductors has recently emerged as a promising path toward topological superconductivity and possibly nonabelian physics. Here, we show that it is possible to avoid some of the main experimental hurdles on this path by using only local proximity effect on each quantum dot in a geometry that resembles a two-dot version of the proposal in New J. Phys. 15 045020 (2013). There is no need for narrow superconducting couplers, additional Andreev bound states, or spatially varying magnetic fields; it suffices with spin-orbit interaction and a constant magnetic field, in combination with control of the superconducting phase to tune the relative strengths of elastic cotunneling and an effective crossed-Andreev-reflection-like process generated by higher-order tunneling. We use a realistic spinful, interacting model and show that high-quality Majorana bound states can be generated already in a double quantum dot.

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