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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 spin-orbit coupled quantum wire, with one end proximate to an s-wave superconductor, can become a topological superconductor, with a Majorana mode localized at each end of the superconducting region. It was recently shown that coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-26 Yashar Komijani , Ian Affleck

We demonstrate that an exotically chiral f-wave topological superfluid can be induced in coldfermionic-atom triangular optical lattices through the laser-field-generated effective non-Abelian gauge field, controllable Zeeman fields and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-25 Ningning Hao , Guocai Liu , Ning Wu , Jiangping Hu , Yupeng Wang

We consider a setup consisting of two coupled sheets of bilayer graphene in the regime of strong spin-orbit interaction, where electrostatic confinement is used to create an array of effective quantum wires. We show that for suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Recently, Majorana Fermions (MFs) have attracted intensive attention due to their exotic statistics and possible applications in topological quantum computation (TQC). They are proposed to exist in various two-dimensional (2D) topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Qiu-Bo Cheng , Jing He , Su-Peng Kou

We calculate the topological boundary modes found for quantum wire for a quantum ring. For the symmetric ring we find analytical solutions for two quasi-particles identifiable as the Majorana states and for asymmetric ring, we have also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Yue Yu , Kwok Yip Szeto

We consider a system consisting of two quantum dots connected by an s-wave superconductor in the presence of periodically varying electric or magnetic fields. The Floquet theory shows that there may be Floquet poor man's Majorana fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Yantao Li , Yankui Wang , Fan Zhong

We present the results of low lying excitation of coupled optical cavity arrays. We derive the Dirac equation for this system and explain the existence of Majorana fermion mode in the system. We present quite a few analytical relations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Sujit Sarkar

We investigate the decoherence patterns of topological qubits in contact with the environment by a novel way of deriving the open system dynamics other than the Feynman-Vernon. Each topological qubit is made of two Majorana modes of a 1D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Shih-Hao Ho , Sung-Po Chao , Chung-Hsien Chou , Feng-Li Lin

Majorana bound states are interesting candidates for applications in topological quantum computation. Low energy models allowing to grasp their properties are hence conceptually important. The usual scenario in these models is that two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 N. Traverso Ziani , C. Fleckenstein , L. Vigliotti , B. Trauzettel , M. Sassetti

We devise a number-conserving scheme for the realization of Majorana Zero Modes in an interacting fermionic ladder coupled by Aharonov-Bohm cages. The latter provide an efficient mechanism to cancel single-particle hopping by destructive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-01 Niklas Tausendpfund , Sebastian Diehl , Matteo Rizzi

Majorana fermions (MFs) are predicted to occur as zero-energy bound states in semiconductor nanowire-superconductor structures. However, in the presence of disorder or smooth confining potentials, these structures can also host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 T. D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

A vortex in a model spinless px+ipy superconductor induces two Majorana fermions (MFs), one in the core and the other at the sample edge. In the present work, we show that edge MF can be generated, fused, transported, and braided easily by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-30 Qi-Feng Liang , Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

The Majorana fermion can be described by a real wave function with only two phases (0 and {\pi}) which provide a controllable degree of freedom. We propose a strategy to regulate the phase of the chiral Majorana state by coupling with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Ying-Tao Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor. We show that when odd number of subbands are occupied the system realizes non-trivial topological state supporting Majorana modes localized at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-31 Roman M. Lutchyn , Tudor Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

A chain of magnetic atoms with non-collinear spin configuration on a superconductor is a promising new system that can host Majorana Fermions (MFs). In this study, we clarify that in the presence of MFs, an odd-frequency Cooper pair is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-04 Hiromi Ebisu , Keiji Yada , Hideaki Kasai , Yukio Tanaka

Topological Majorana fermion (MF) quasiparticles have been recently suggested to exist in semiconductor quantum wires with proximity induced superconductivity and a Zeeman field. Although the experimentally observed zero bias tunneling peak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jay D. Sau , Brian Swingle , Sumanta Tewari

Under appropriate external conditions a semiconductor nanowire in proximity to an s-wave superconductor can be in a topological superconducting (TS) phase. This phase supports localized zero-energy Majorana fermions at the ends of the wire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Jay D. Sau , D. J. Clarke , S. Tewari

A fundamental obstacle for achieving quantum computation is local decoherence. One way to circumvent this problem rests on the concepts of topological quantum computation using non-local information storage, for example on pairs of Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-20 G. Livanas , M. Sigrist , G. Varelogiannis

Recent experimental advances in the field of cold atoms led to the development of novel techniques for producing synthetic dimensions and synthetic magnetic fields, thus greatly expanding the utility of cold atomic systems for exploring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-28 Or Golan , Eran Sela , Kirill Shtengel
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