Majorana bound state of a Bogoliubov-de Gennes-Dirac Hamiltonian in arbitrary dimensions

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 854, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 306-320

  Imura, Ken Ichiro ^a   Fukui, Takahiro ^b   Fujiwara, Takanori ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Berry phase; Bogoliubov de Gennes equation; Dirac Hamiltonian; Index theorem; Majorana bound state; Topological invariant

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053607200     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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