1. Conductance-Matrix Symmetries of a Three-Terminal Hybrid Device
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Denise Puglia, Andrew Higginbotham, Gerbold Menard, Chris Palmstrom, Joon Sue Lee, Charles Marcus, G. L. R. Anselmetti, Karsten Flensberg, Esteban Martínez, Sukgeun Choi, Mihir Pendharkar, Filip K. Malinowski, and Lucas Casparis
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Superconductivity ,Physics ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics ,Condensed matter physics ,Antisymmetric relation ,Condensed Matter - Superconductivity ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Conductance ,Charge (physics) ,01 natural sciences ,Symmetry (physics) ,Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) ,MAJORANA ,Matrix (mathematics) ,Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) ,0103 physical sciences ,Bound state ,010306 general physics - Abstract
We present conductance-matrix measurements of a three-terminal superconductor-semiconductor hybrid device consisting of two normal leads and one superconducting lead. Using a symmetry decomposition of the conductance, we find that the antisymmetric components of pairs of local and nonlocal conductances match at energies below the superconducting gap, consistent with expectations based on a non-interacting scattering matrix approach. Further, the local charge character of Andreev bound states is extracted from the symmetry-decomposed conductance data and is found to be similar at both ends of the device and tunable with gate voltage. Finally, we measure the conductance matrix as a function of magnetic field and identify correlated splittings in low-energy features, demonstrating how conductance-matrix measurements can complement traditional tunneling-probe measurements in the search for Majorana zero modes., Comment: 6 + 2 pages, 4 + 2 figures
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- 2020
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