Spin-Orbit Interaction and Induced Superconductivity in a One-Dimensional Hole Gas.

ABSTRACT: Low dimensional semiconducting structures with strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and induced superconductivity attracted great interest in the search for topological superconductors. Both the strong SOI and hard superconducting gap are directly related to the topological protection of the predicted Majorana bound states. Here we explore the one-dimensional hole gas in germanium silicon (Ge-Si) core-shell nanowires (NWs) as a new material candidate for creating a topological superconductor. Fitting multiple Andreev reflection measurements shows that the NW has two transport channels only, underlining its one-dimensionality. Furthermore, we find anisotropy of the Landé g-factor that, combined with band structure calculations, provides us qualitative evidence for the direct Rashba SOI and a

SUBMITTER: de Vries FK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6187512 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature