Testable signatures of quantum nonlocality in a two-dimensional chiral p-wave superconductor.
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A class of topological excitations-the odd-winding number vortices-in a spinless 2D chiral p-wave (px+ipy) superconductor traps Majorana fermion states in the vortex cores. For a dilute gas of such vortices, the lowest energy fermionic eigenstates are intrinsically nonlocal. We predict two testable signatures of this unusual quantum nonlocality in quasiparticle tunneling experiments. We discuss why the associated teleportationlike phenomenon does not imply the violation of causality.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 100 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008