Transport through Majorana nanowires attached to normal leads

This paper presents a coupled channel model for transport in twodimensional semiconductor Majorana nanowires coupled to normal leads. When the nanowire hosts a zero-mode pair, conspicuous signatures of the linear conductance are predicted. An effective model in second quantization allowing a fully analytical solution is used to clarify the physics. We also discuss the nonlinear current response (dI /dV). © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.This work was supported by grant numbers FIS2008-00781, FIS2011-23526 and CSD2007-00042 (CPAN) from the Spanish GovernmentPeer Reviewe