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Unified scattering approach to Josephson current and thermal noise in BCS and topological superconducting junctions

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We present a unified description of a junction between s-wave (BCS) superconductors and a junction between p-wave superconductors in a topologically nontrivial phase, which relies on a scattering state expansion. We compute Josephson current and thermal noise in the two kinds of junction and exhibit some characteristic features for a junction of two topological superconductors hosting Majorana zero-energy modes.

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    Romain Jacquet, Jérôme Rech, Thibaut Jonckheere & Thierry Martin

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Heinrich Heine Universität, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Jacquet, R., Rech, J., Jonckheere, T. et al. Unified scattering approach to Josephson current and thermal noise in BCS and topological superconducting junctions. Eur. Phys. J. B 92, 59 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2019-90461-y

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