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Russia Izhevsk
Year
2020
Volume
30
Issue
2
Pages
259-269
 Section Mathematics Title Investigation of eigenvalues and scattering problem for the Bogoliubov – de Gennes Hamiltonian near the superconducting gap edge Author(-s) Tinyukova T.S.a, Chuburin Yu.P.b Affiliations Udmurt State Universitya, Udmurt Federal Research Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciencesb Abstract We consider the Bogolyubov – de Gennes Hamiltonian perturbed by a small potential, which describes quasiparticles of electron-hole type, in particular, Andreev bound states (ABSs) in a one-dimensional superconducting structure in the presence of an impurity. In the last 15-20 years, interest in such quasiparticles has increased sharply due to the discovery of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in topological superconductors. MBSs are neutral zero-energy quasiparticles resistant to external influences, which are very promising for future use in quantum computing. The study of the appearance and behavior, depending on the system parameters and the topological phase, of ABSs described by the eigenfunctions of the Bogolyubov – de Gennes Hamiltonian, is interesting both from a mathematical point of view, in comparison with the usual Schrödinger operator, and from a physical point of view, since it can clarify prerequisites for the occurrence of MBSs in the topologically nontrivial phase and marjoram-like states (often playing the role of MBSs) in the topologically trivial phase. The study of scattering is interesting due to the fact that the probability of a quasiparticle transmission through a potential barrier is proportional to the conductance, that can be measured experimentally, which in principle makes it possible to relate the conductance to the presence of ABS. In the paper, the conditions for the appearance of eigenvalues (energies of quasiparticles) in the superconducting gap in the continuous spectrum of the Hamiltonian, as well as their dependence on the parameters in both the topological nontrivial and topologically trivial phases, are found. In addition, the scattering problem for energies near the edge of the gap has been investigated, in particular, the probability of a quasiparticle transmission through a potential barrier as a function of system parameters has been found. Keywords Bogolyubov – de Gennes Hamiltonian, Green's function, spectrum, eigenvalue, Andreev bound states, scattering problem, transmission probability UDC 517.958, 530.145.6, 517.984.55, 517.984.66 MSC 81Q10, 81Q15, 47A10, 47A40 DOI 10.35634/vm200209 Received 28 April 2020 Language Russian Citation Tinyukova T.S., Chuburin Yu.P. 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