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EPL
Volume 116, Number 2, October 2016
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| Article Number | 27005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/116/27005 | |
| Published online | 28 November 2016 | |
Probing Majorana and Andreev bound states with waiting times
1 Department of Physics, University of Basel - Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
2 Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INLN - France
3 Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, CPT - Marseille, France
Received: 28 October 2016
Accepted: 15 November 2016
We consider a biased normal-superconducting junction with various types of superconductivity. Depending on the class of superconductivity, a Majorana bound state may appear at the interface. We show that this has important consequences on the statistical distribution of time delays between detection of consecutive electrons flowing out of such an interface, namely the waiting time distribution. Therefore, this quantity is shown to be a clear fingerprint of Majorana bound-state physics and may be considered as an experimental signature of its presence.
PACS: 72.70.+m – Noise processes and phenomena / 02.50.Ey – Stochastic processes / 74.50.+r – Tunneling phenomena; Josephson effects
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