Affiliation:
1. Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences
2. N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Abstract
Majorana edge states in Kitaev chains possessing an effective time reversal symmetry with one fermionic site per unit cell are studied. For a semi-infinite chain the equations for the wave functions of Majorana zero modes can be reduced to a single Wiener-Hopf equation, which has an exact analytical solution. We use this solution to determine the asymptotic behaviors of the Majorana wave functions at large distances from the edge of the chain for several infinite-range models described in the literature with focus on a model with slow power-law falloff of pairing and hopping amplitudes. For these models we also determine the asymptotic behavior of the energy of the fermionic state composed of two Majorana modes in the limit of long (finite) Kitaev chains.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Subject
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics,Condensed Matter Physics