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Paper   IPM / Physic / 14660
School of Physics
  Title:   Real space renormalization of Majorana fermions in quantum nano-wire superconductors
  Author(s): 
1.  R. Jafari
2.  A. Langari
3.  A. Akbari
4.  K. Seok Kim
  Status:   Published
  Journal: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
  No.:  2
  Vol.:  86
  Year:  2017
  Pages:   024008
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We have applied the real space quantum renormalization group approach to study the topological quantum phase transition in the one-dimensional chain of a spinless p-wave superconductor. We investigate the behavior of local compressibility and ground-state fidelity of the Kitaev chain. We show that the topological phase transition is signaled by the maximum of local compressibility at the quantum critical point tuned by the chemical potential. Moreover, a sudden drop of the ground-state fidelity and the divergence of fidelity susceptibility at the topological quantum critical point have been used as a proper indicators for the topological quantum phase transition, which signals the appearance of Majorana fermions. We also present the scaling analysis of ground-state fidelity near the critical point that manifests the universal information about the topological phase transition.

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