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Partial equilibration of the anti-Pfaffian edge due to Majorana Disorder

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We consider electrical and thermal equilibration of the edge modes of the Anti-Pfaffian quantum Hall state at ν = 5/2 due to tunneling of the Majorana edge mode to trapped Majorana zero modes in the bulk. Such tunneling breaks translational invariance and allows scattering between Majorana and other edge modes in such a way that there is a parametric difference between the length scales for equilibration of charge and heat transport between integer and Bose mode on the one hand, and for thermal equilibration of the Majorana edge mode on the other hand. We discuss a parameter regime in which this mechanism could explain the recent observation of quantized heat transport [Banerjee et all, Nature 559, 7713 (2018)].
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.126801

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
Oxford college:
Somerville College
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Publisher:
American Physical Society
Journal:
Physical Review Letters More from this journal
Volume:
124
Article number:
126801
Publication date:
2020-03-24
Acceptance date:
2020-03-09
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EISSN:
1079-7114
ISSN:
0031-9007


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English
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Pubs id:
1091931
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pubs:1091931
Deposit date:
2020-03-09

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