I am reading paper about Kitaev chain of electrons, which can exhibit famous Majorana fermions at ends of wire. The Hamiltonian (his Eq. (6)) reads
H=i2∑j−μc2j−1c2j+(w+|Δ|)c2jc2j+1+(−w+|Δ|)c2j−1c2j+2
in terms of the Majorana operators c2j−1 and c2j and constants μ,w,|Δ| can be thought of as parameters controlling Fermi level, hopping and gap.
Kitaev shows there are solutions of Hamiltonian H with zero-energy. He gives the operators associated to zero-energy solutions in ansatz form (his Eq. (14)):
b′=∑j(α′+xj++α′−xj−)c2j−1
b″=∑j(α″+x−j++α″−x−j−)c2j
where all α are constants and x± are unknowns to be found.
Q1) How to find x±?
Q2) How to show x±=−μ±√μ2−4w2+4|Δ|22(w+|Δ|)?
I attempted to show it by computing [b′,H]=[b″,H]=0, but it did not give correct answer.
Any help appreciated.
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