Shot noise distinguishes Majorana fermions from vortices injected in the edge mode of a chiral p-wave superconductor

@article{Beenakker2020ShotND,
  title={Shot noise distinguishes Majorana fermions from vortices injected in the edge mode of a chiral p-wave superconductor},
  author={C. W. J. Beenakker and D. O. Oriekhov},
  journal={arXiv: Superconductivity},
  year={2020}
}
The chiral edge modes of a topological superconductor support two types of excitations: fermionic quasiparticles known as Majorana fermions and $\pi$-phase domain walls known as edge vortices. Edge vortices are injected pairwise into counter-propagating edge modes by a flux bias or voltage bias applied to a Josephson junction. An unpaired edge mode carries zero electrical current on average, but there are time-dependent current fluctuations. We calculate the shot noise power produced by a… 
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