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We consider a voltage-biased Josephson junction between two nanowires hosting Majorana zero modes which occur as topological protected zero-energy excitations at the junction. We show that two Majorana fermions localized at the junction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 Christoph Ohm , Fabian Hassler

The fractional Josephson effect is known to be a characteristic phenomenon of topological Josephson junctions hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs), where the Josephson current has a $4\pi$ (rather than a $2\pi$) periodicity in the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Shuntaro Sumita , Akira Furusaki

We study superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) Josephson junctions in one-dimensional topological superconductors which support more than one Majorana end mode. The variation of the energy spectrum with the superconducting phase is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Doru Sticlet , Cristina Bena , Pascal Simon

We propose a planar Josephson junction setup to host Majorana modes where the semiconductor is sandwiched between superconductors on both surfaces. While the studied configuration is related to both devices proposed for use with topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-05 Huan-Kuang Wu , Jay Sau

We consider a wire network of ferromagnetic impurities on the surface of an $s$-wave superconductor with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Within the topological phase, zero-energy Majorana fermions appear at wire end-points as well as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-14 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Topological superconductors are exotic gapped phases of matter hosting Majorana mid-gap states on their boundary. In conventional topological superconductors, Majorana in-gap states appear in the form of either localized zero-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Junyeong Ahn , Bohm-Jung Yang

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

We investigate the interplay between ferromagnetic and superconducting order at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator. Using complementary analytical and self-consistent numerical approaches, we study a ferromagnetic Josephson junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jacob Linder

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling and coupled to a superconductor can be tuned by an external Zeeman field into a topological phase with Majorana zero modes. Here we theoretically investigate how this exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Annica Black-Schaffer , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada

Majorana fermion (MF) excitations in solid state system have non-Abelian statistics which is essential for topological quantum computation. Previous proposals to realize MF, however, generally requires fine-tuning of parameters. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Hoi-Yin Hui , P. M. R. Brydon , Jay D. Sau , S. Tewari , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the Josephson effect in one triple-terminal junction with embedded parallel-coupled double quantum dots. It is found that the inter-superconductor supercurrent has opportunities to oscillate in $4\pi$ period, with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Guang-Yu Yi , Xiao-Qi Wang , Zhen Gao , Hai-Na Wu , Wei-Jiang Gong

Two majorana Fermions (MFs) localized at the two ends of the topological superconducting wire can interfere with each other and form the well known $4\pi$ Josephson current. We reveal that the density of states (Dos) for the electron part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Jie Liu , Juntao Song , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We study theoretically the electrical current and low-frequency noise for a linear Josephson junction structure on a topological insulator, in which the superconductor forms a closed ring and currents are injected from normal regions inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Benjamin J. Wieder , Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

We consider Majorana fermions (MFs) in quasi-one-dimensional nanowire systems containing normal and superconducting sections where the topological phase based on Rashba spin orbit interaction can be tuned by magnetic fields. We derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We theoretically study the stability of more than one Majorana Fermion appearing in a $p$-wave superconductor/dirty normal metal/$p$-wave superconductor junction in two-dimension by using chiral symmetry of Hamiltonian. At the phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. Ikegaya , Y. Asano

We discuss a strong relationship between Majorana fermions and odd-frequency Cooper pairs which appear at a disordered normal (N) nano wire attached to a topologically nontrivial superconducting (S) one. The transport properties in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-22 Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka

We study theoretically charge transport properties of normal metal (N) / ferromagnet insulator (FI) / superconductor (S) junction and S/FI/S junction formed on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), where chiral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Naoto Nagaosa

We explore possible signatures for observing Majorana Fermions in the tunneling spectroscopy of high-Tc cuprate superconductors. We find that as long as the Rashba spin orbit interaction is in presence either through proximity effect due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun-Ting Kao , Shin-Ming Huang , Chung-Yu Mou , C. C. Tsuei

The interplay of superconductivity, magnetic fields, and spin-orbit interaction lies at the heart of topological superconductivity. Remarkably, the recent experimental discovery of $\varphi_{0}$ Josephson junctions by Szombati et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Constantin Schrade , Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss

We investigate the effect of helical Majorana fermions at the surface of superconducting topological insulators (STI) on the Josephson current by referring to possible pairing states of Cu-doped Bi2Se3. The surface state in the present STI…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-02 Ai Yamakage , Masatoshi Sato , Keiji Yada , Satoshi Kashiwaya , Yukio Tanaka
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