Emergent Josephson current of chiral topological superconductor in quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructures

CZ Chen, JJ He, DH Xu, KT Law - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Physical Review B, 2018APS
Recently, a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI)/superconductor heterostructure has
been realized and shows half-quantized conductance plateaus in two-terminal conductance
measurements [QL He, Science 357, 294 (2017) SCIEAS 0036-8075 10.1126/science.
aag2792]. The half-quantized conductance plateaus are considered as a solid evidence of
chiral Majorana edge modes. However, there is a strong debate over the origin of the half-
quantized conductance plateaus. In this work, we propose a Josephson junction based on …
Recently, a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI)/superconductor heterostructure has been realized and shows half-quantized conductance plateaus in two-terminal conductance measurements [Q. L. He , Science 357, 294 (2017)SCIEAS0036-807510.1126/science.aag2792]. The half-quantized conductance plateaus are considered as a solid evidence of chiral Majorana edge modes. However, there is a strong debate over the origin of the half-quantized conductance plateaus. In this work, we propose a Josephson junction based on the QAHI/superconductor heterostructure to identify the existence of chiral Majorana edge modes. We find that the critical Josephson current dramatically increases to a peak value when a half-quantized conductance plateau is showing up for the chiral topological superconductor phase with a single chiral Majorana mode. Furthermore, we show that the critical Josephson current of the chiral topological superconductor exhibits an -period oscillation and is robust to disorder, in contrast to the behaviors of conventional two-dimensional electron gas systems. We also estimate experimentally relevant parameters and believe that the supercurrent can be observed in experiments.
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