Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1543778 Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 2016 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

•A multitip device is proposed to probe Majorana fermions in adatoms.•The transmittance is universal due to the energy swap in the AFM tip.•Overlapped Majorana fermions lead to a gate voltage invariance feature.

We investigate theoretically a Fano interferometer composed by STM and AFM tips close to a Kitaev dimer of superconducting adatoms, in which the adatom placed under the AFM tip, encloses a pair of Majorana fermions (MFs). For the binding energy Δ of the Cooper pair delocalized into the adatoms under the tips coincident with the tunneling amplitude t between them, namely Δ=t, we find that only one MF beneath the AFM tip hybridizes with the adatom coupled to the STM tips. As a result, a gate invariance feature emerges: the Fano profile of the transmittance rises as an invariant quantity depending upon the STM tips Fermi energy, due to the symmetric swap in the gate potential of the AFM tip.

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