Bimodal conductance distribution of Kitaev edge modes in topological superconductors

@article{Diez2014BimodalCD,
  title={Bimodal conductance distribution of Kitaev edge modes in topological superconductors},
  author={Mathias Diez and Ion Cosma Fulga and D. I. Pikulin and Jakub Tworzydło and C. W. J. Beenakker},
  journal={New Journal of Physics},
  year={2014},
  volume={16}
}
A two-dimensional superconductor with spin-triplet p-wave pairing supports chiral or helical Majorana edge modes with a quantized (length L-independent) thermal conductance. Sufficiently strong anisotropy removes both chirality and helicity, doubling the conductance in the clean system and imposing a super-Ohmic 1 / L ?> decay in the presence of disorder. We explain the absence of localization in the framework of the Kitaev Hamiltonian, contrasting the edge modes of the two-dimensional system… 
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