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Topological superfluid, new quantum matter that possesses gapless exotic excitations known as Majorana fermions, has attracted extensive attention recently. These excitations, which can encode topological qubits, could be crucial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-18 Liang-Liang Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

We propose a system of coupled quantum dots in proximity to a superconductor and driven by separate ac potentials to realize and detect Floquet Majorana fermions. We show that the appearance of Floquet Majorana fermions can be finely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Yantao Li , Arijit Kundu , Fan Zhong , Babak Seradjeh

A new method is introduced for probing Topological Superconductors. The integration of the superconding fermions generates a topological $\mathbf{Chern-Simons}$ sound action . Dislocations induce Majorana zero modes inside the sample,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-27 D. Schmeltzer

Majorana fermions are predicted to localize at the edge of a topological superconductor, a state of matter that can form when a ferromagnetic system is placed in proximity to a conventional superconductor with strong spin-orbit interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Stevan Nadj-Perge , Ilya K. Drozdov , Jian Li , Hua Chen , Sangjun Jeon , Jungpil Seo , Allan H. MacDonald , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana fermion - the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles - has produced the first positive experimental results, but is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-14 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

We present a unified study of the effect of periodic, quasiperiodic and disordered potentials on topological phases that are characterized by Majorana end modes in 1D p-wave superconducting systems. We define a topological invariant derived…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 Wade DeGottardi , Diptiman Sen , Smitha Vishveshwara

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) structures represent one of the most promising platforms to realize, control and manipulate Majorana modes using scanning tunneling methods. By depositing either chains or islands of magnetic atoms on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Crawford , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Proposals for realizing Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems typically rely on magnetic fields, which degrade the proximitizing superconductor and plague the Majoranas' detection. We propose an alternative scheme to realize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Omri Lesser , Karsten Flensberg , Felix von Oppen , Yuval Oreg

Controlling the dynamics of Majorana fermions (MF) subject to time-varying driving fields is of fundamental importance for the practical realization of topological quantum computing. In this work we study how it is possible to dynamically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Perfetto

We study the condition for a topological superconductor (TS) phase with end Majorana fermions to appear when a quasiperiodic lattice modulation is applied to a one-dimensional quantum wire with strong spin-orbit interaction situated under a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

We propose a platform based on a fully compensated ferrimagnet (fFIM) for realizing and controlling topological superconductivity with Majorana bound states across multiple dimensions. Through symmetry analysis and microscopic modeling, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Yu-Xuan Li , Yicheng Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

The functionalized graphene with induced superconductivity, Zeeman coupling, and finite Rashba spin-orbit coupling is proposed to display topological superconducting phases with Majorana end modes. We obtain the phase diagram of bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Zhen-Hua Wang , Eduardo V. Castro , Hai-Qing Lin

Topological superconductors are an intriguing and elusive quantum phase, characterized by topologically protected gapless surface/edge states residing in a bulk superconducting gap, which hosts Majorana fermions. Unfortunately, all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-10 Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Jia-Wei Mei , Zheng Liu , Lih-King Lim , Feng Liu

We show that one dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity can be placed in the context of phenomena associated with strongly correlated electron systems. Here we propose a system consisting of a one-dimensional chain of strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-12 Kaushal Kumar Kesharpu , Evgenii A. Kochetov , Alvaro Ferraz

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

It has been shown previously that a finite-length topological insulator nanowire, proximity-coupled to an ordinary bulk s-wave superconductor and subject to a longitudinal applied magnetic field, realizes a one-dimensional topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-19 A. M. Cook , M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

The novel idea that spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and $s$-wave pairing can lead to induced $p$-wave pairing at strong magnetic limit has stimulated widespread interests in the whole community for the searching of Majorana Fermions (MFs), a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-24 Jia Liu , Chun Fai Chan , Ming Gong

A distinct electronic structure was observed in the single-layer FeSe which shows surprising high temperature superconductivity over 65k. Here we demonstrate that the electronic structure can be explained by the strain effect due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-29 Ningning Hao , Jiangping Hu

Topological states of matter are a source of low-energy quasiparticles, bound to a defect or propagating along the surface. In a superconductor these are Majorana fermions, described by a real rather than a complex wave function. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 C. W. J. Beenakker , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We show that confined Majorana fermions can exist in nanowires with proximity induced s-wave superconducting pairing if the direction of an external magnetic field rotates along the wire. The system is equivalent to nanowires with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Morten Kjaergaard , Konrad Wölms , Karsten Flensberg