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We study a topological superconducting nanowire that hosts gliding Majorana zero modes in the presence of a microwave cavity field. We show that the cavity decay rate depends on both the parity encoded by the Majorana zero modes and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Olesia Dmytruk , Mircea Trif

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

Semiconducting-superconducting nanowires attract widespread interest owing to the possible presence of non-abelian Majorana zero modes, which hold promise for topological quantum computation. However, the search for Majorana signatures is…

We theoretically consider transport properties of a normal metal (N)- superconducting semiconductor nanowire (S)-normal metal (N) structure (NSN) in the context of the possible existence of Majorana bound states in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

We consider theoretically a $1D$-semiconducting wire with strong Rashba interaction in proximity with $s$-wave superconductor, driven into topological phase by external magnetic field. Additionally, we take into account on-site Coulomb…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-11 Piotr Stefański

We study for the first time the effects of strong short-range electron-electron interactions in generic Rarita--Schwinger--Weyl semimetals hosting spin-3/2 electrons with linear dispersion at a four-fold band crossing point. The emergence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-30 Igor Boettcher

A generic semiclassical superconducting nanostructure connected to multiple superconducting terminals hosts a quasi-continuous spectrum of Andreev states. The spectrum is sensitive to the superconducting phases of the terminals. It can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Janis Erdmanis , Arpad Lukacs , Yuli Nazarov

Proximity induced superconducting energy gap in the surface states of topological insulators has been predicted to host the much wanted Majorana fermions for fault tolerant quantum computation. Recent theoretically proposed architectures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Biplab Bhattacharyya , V. P. S. Awana , T. D. Senguttuvan , V. N. Ojha , Sudhir Husale

Recent tunneling experiments on InSb hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices have provided hope for a stabilization of Majorana edge modes in a spin-orbit quantum wire subject to a magnetic field and superconducting proximity effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ronny Thomale , Stephan Rachel , Peter Schmitteckert

The possibility to observe and manipulate Majorana fermions as end states of one-dimensional topological superconductors has been actively discussed recently. In a quantum wire with strong spin-orbit coupling placed in proximity to a bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-31 Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

We study the phase diagram of the extended Hubbard model on a two-dimensional square lattice, including on-site (U) and nearest-neighbor (V) interactions, at weak couplings. We show that the charge-density-wave phase that is known to occur…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-14 Wen-Min Huang , Chen-Yen Lai , Chuntai Shi , Shan-Wen Tsai

Signatures of Majorana fermion bound states in one-dimensional topological insulator (TI) nanowires with proximity effect induced superconductivity are studied. The phase diagram and energy spectra are calculated for single TI nanowires and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Guang-Yao Huang , H. Q. Xu

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 investigate the linear thermoelectric response of an interacting quantum dot side-coupled by one of two Majorana fermions (MFs) formed at the ends of a topological superconducting wire. We employ the numerical renormalization group…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 Heunghwan Khim , Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim , Minchul Lee

A chiral $p_x+ip_y$ superconductor on a square lattice with nearest and next-nearest hopping and pairing terms is considered. Gap closures, as various parameters of the system are varied, are found analytically and used to identify the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-27 Antonio Russo , Sudip Chakravarty

High spin-Chern-number topological phases provide a promising low-dimensional platform for realizing double-helical edge states. In this letter, we show how these edge states can host a variety of phases driven by electron interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Yi-Chun Hung , Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Arun Bansil

A hard proximity-induced superconducting gap has recently been observed in semiconductor nanowire systems at low magnetic fields. However, in the topological regime at high magnetic fields, a soft gap emerges and represents a fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Constantin Schrade , Manisha Thakurathi , Christopher Reeg , Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Majorana modes can arise as zero energy bound states in a variety of solid state systems. A two-dimensional phase supporting these quasiparticles, for instance, emerges on the surface of a topological superconductor with the zero modes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-26 Tarun Tummuru , Alberto Nocera , Ian Affleck

Proposals for studying topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in nanowires proximity coupled to superconductors require that transport in the nanowire is ballistic. Previous work on hybrid nanowire-superconductor systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 S. T. Gill , J. Damasco , D. Car , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , N. Mason

In the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetic field can drive a proximitized nanowire into a topological superconducting phase. We study transport properties of such nanowires in the Coulomb blockade regime. The associated with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-09 Roman M. Lutchyn , Leonid I. Glazman