Anomalous photon-assisted tunneling in periodically driven Majorana nanowires and BCS Charge Measurement

TL;DR

This paper investigates how periodic driving fields influence Majorana bound states in nanowires, revealing anomalous photon-assisted tunneling signals and methods to measure BCS charge and spin components of these states.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical and numerical analysis of photon-assisted tunneling in driven Majorana nanowires, highlighting unique signatures and measurement techniques for Majorana states.

Findings

Majorana states show anomalous photon-assisted tunneling signals.

Photonic sideband heights relate to Majorana nonlocality.

Local conductance reveals BCS charge and spin of subgap states.

Abstract

The photon-assisted tunneling of Majorana bound states in a Majorana nanowire driven by the periodic field is studied both theoretically and numerically. We find that Majorana bound states exhibit an anomalous photon-assisted tunneling signal which is different from an ordinary fermionic state : the height of photonic sidebands is related to the degree of Majorana nonlocality. Moreover, we show that the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) charge and spin components of subgap states can be well revealed by the local conductance. Our work illuminates the effect of driving field on Majorana bound states and provides a systematic scheme to directly measure BCS information of overlapping Majorana bound states