Distribution of Conductances in Chiral Topological Superconductor Junctions
Abstract
We study the electronic transport of heterojunctions made of chiral topological superconductors (TSCs) with N chiral Majorana fermion modes and quantum Hall insulators (QHIs) with integer Chern number C. In the weak disorder regime, we show the two-terminal conductance σ12 of a QHI-TSC-QHI junction is generically non-quantized, but obeys a certain distribution determined by C and N, which is induced by random SO(N) rotations of chiral Majorana fermion mode basis on the TSC edges. Oppositely, in the strong disorder regime, σ12 tends to be a quantized value. We conclude with a brief discussion on the fractionally quantized thermal conductances of the junction.
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