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We have investigated the effects of long-range Coulomb interaction on the topological superconducting phase in a quasi-one dimensional semiconductor wire, proximity coupled to a s-wave using the exact diagonalization approach. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Areg Ghazaryan , Tapash Chakraborty

We study nanowire-based Josephson junctions shunted by a capacitor and take into account the presence of low-energy quasiparticle excitations. These are treated by extending conventional models used to describe superconducting qubits to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Anna Keselman , Chaitanya Murthy , Bernard van Heck , Bela Bauer

Full-shell nanowires have been proposed as an alternative nanowire design in the search of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes (MZMs). They are hybrid nanostructures consisting of a semiconductor core fully covered by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Carlos Payá , Samuel D. Escribano , Andrea Vezzosi , Fernando Peñaranda , Ramón Aguado , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

We study the effects of strong coupling between a superconductor and a semiconductor nanowire on the creation of the Majorana bound states, when the quasiparticle dwell time in the normal part of the nanowire is much shorter than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Doru Sticlet , Bas Nijholt , Anton Akhmerov

As the condensed matter analog of Majorana fermion, the Majorana zero-mode is well known as a building block of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. This review focuses on the recent progress of Majorana experiments, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ji-Bang Fu , Bin Li , Xin-Fang Zhang , Guang-Zheng Yu , Guang-Yao Huang , Ming-Tang Deng

Developing a gate-tunable, scalable, and topologically-protectable supercurrent qubit and integrating it into a quantum circuit are crucial for applications in the fields of quantum information technology and topological phenomena. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 Hong-Seok Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

It was recently proposed that the interface between a graphene nanoribbon in the canted antiferromagnetic quantum Hall state and a s-wave superconductor may present topological superconductivity, resulting in the appearance of Majorana zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 A. L. R. Manesco , D. Rodrigues , G. Weber

We investigate the effect of interactions on the stability of a disordered, two-dimensional topological insulator realized as an array of nanowires or chains of magnetic atoms on a superconducting substrate. The Majorana zero-energy modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 A. Milsted , L. Seabra , I. C. Fulga , C. W. J. Beenakker , E. Cobanera

We investigate gradual development of the quasiparticle states in two quantum dots attached to opposite sides of the topological superconducting nanowire, hosting the boundary modes. Specifically, we explore the non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 R. Taranko , K. Wrześniewski , I. Weymann , T. Domański

We consider a system of weakly coupled Rashba nanowires in the strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) regime. The nanowires are arranged into two tunnel-coupled layers proximitized by a top and bottom superconductor such that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

A hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowire on the top of a magnetic film in the stripe phase experiences a magnetic texture from the underlying fringing fields. The Zeeman interaction with the highly inhomogeneous magnetic textures…

The Majorana phase boundaries in planar 2D hybrid (semiconductor-superconductor) nanowires are modified by orbital effects due to off plane magnetic components. We show that Majorana zero modes survive sizable vertical field tiltings,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Javier Osca , Llorenç Serra

Full-shell nanowires (semiconducting nanowires fully coated with a superconducting shell) have been recently presented as a novel means to create Majorana zero modes. In contrast to partially coated nanowires, it has been argued that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Fernando Peñaranda , Ramón Aguado , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

We study a vortex chain in a thin film of a topological insulator with proximity-induced superconductivity---a promising platform to realize Majorana zero modes (MZMs)---by modeling it as a two-leg Majorana ladder. While each pair of MZMs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-16 Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Jiansheng Wu , Kuei Sun , Ching-Kai Chiu

We theoretically investigate the effect of intertube tunneling in topological superfluid phases of a quasi-one-dimensional Fermi gas with a Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. It is shown that the effective Hamiltonian is analogous to that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Takeshi Mizushima , Masatoshi Sato

We develop a Gaussian variational approach in replica space to investigate the phase diagram of a one-dimensional interacting disordered topological superconducting wire in the strong coupling regime. This method allows for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Francois Crépin , Gergely Zaránd , Pascal Simon

Motivated by the InSb nanowire superconductor system, we investigate a system where one-dimensional topological superconductors are placed in parallel. It would be simulated well by a ladder of the Kitaev chains. The system undergoes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-26 Ryohei Wakatsuki , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

We study a Josephson junction in a Kitaev chain with particle-hole symmetric nearest neighbor interactions. When the phase difference across the junction is $\pi$, we show analytically that the full spectrum is fourfold degenerate up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Julia Boeyens , Izak Snyman

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle-hole symmetric, and spatially-separated end modes which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pasquale Marra

Spin-orbit coupled semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity are expected to host Majorana zero modes at their endpoints when a sufficiently strong magnetic field is applied. The resulting phase would be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 David J. Clarke