Squeezing light with Majorana fermions

2013/07/31 by Audrey Cottet, Takis Kontos, Benoît Douçot +1 · 52 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Bound state #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Dirac fermion #Fermion #MAJORANA #Majorana equation #Majorana fermion #Materials science #Microwave #Microwave cavity #Nanowire #Physics #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.supr-con

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.88.195415

published in Physical Review B 88(19) (American Physical Society) · long version: 11 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2013/11/12 · openalex publication_date 2013/11/13 · arxiv updated 2013/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Coupling a semiconducting nanowire to a microwave cavity provides a powerful means to assess the presence or absence of isolated Majorana fermions in the nanowire. These exotic bound states can cause a significant cavity frequency shift but also a strong cavity nonlinearity leading, for instance, to light squeezing. The dependence of these effects on the nanowire gate voltages gives direct signatures of the unique properties of Majorana fermions, such as their self-adjoint character and their exponential confinement.

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