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Motivated by recent experiments we consider transport across an interacting magnetic impurity coupled to the Majorana zero mode (MZM) observed at the boundary of a topological superconductor (SC). In the presence of a finite tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Daniele Guerci , Andrea Nava

Motivated by a recent experimental report[1] claiming the likely observation of the Majorana mode in a semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structure[2,3,4,5], we study theoretically the dependence of the zero bias conductance peak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-09 Chien-Hung Lin , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We study a disordered superconducting nanowire, with broken time-reversal and spin-rotational symmetry, which can be driven into a topological phase with end Majorana bound states by an externally applied magnetic field. As a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

Theoretical research suggests a emergence of the Majorana bound states at the ends of the nanowires. Experimental verifications of said concept has already been executed, e.g., in superconductor/semiconductor nanowire devices where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Aksel Kobiałka , Andrzej Ptok

Engineering chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in semiconductor structures offers fascinating ways to obtain and study Majorana modes in a condensed matter context. Here, we theoretically investigate chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

We study quantum entanglement in a system comprising two quantum dots interconnected through the short topological superconducting nanowire, which hosts overlapping boundary Majorana modes. Inspecting the fermionic negativity, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 C. Jasiukiewicz , A. Sinner , I. Weymann , T. Domański , L. Chotorlishvili

We show that the presence of Majorana zero-modes in a one-dimensional topological superconductor can be detected by adiabatic cooling. This cooling effect results from an increase of the topological entropy associated with the ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 Chang-Yu Hou , Yafis Barlas , Kirill Shtengel

Topological quantum computation using non-Abelian Majorana zero modes localized in proximitized semiconductor nanowires requires careful electrostatic control of wire-junctions so as to manipulate and braid the zero modes enabling anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sankar Das Sarma

The Majorana fermion offers fascinating possibilities such as non-Abelian statistics and non-local robust qubits, and hunting it is one of the most important topics in current condensed matter physics. Most of the efforts have been focused…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Bo Lu , Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

By considering Majorana zero modes to laterally couple to the quantum dot, we evaluate the thermoelectric effect in one single-dot system. The calculation results show that if one Majorana zero mode couples to the dot, the thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Xiao-Qi Wang , Shu-Feng Zhang , Hu Han , Guang-Yu Yi , Wei-Jiang Gong

We discuss the thermoelectrical properties of nanowires hosting Majorana edge states. For a Majorana nanowire directly coupled to two normal reservoirs the thermopower always vanishes regardeless of the value of the Majorana hybridization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , Llorens Serra , Jong Soo Lim

The Majorana fermion, which is its own anti-particle and obeys non-abelian statistics, plays a critical role in topological quantum computing. It can be realized as a bound state at zero energy, called a Majorana zero mode (MZM), in the…

We investigate the Majorana fermions in a semiconductor nanostructure with two wires connected through a ring. The nanostructure is mirror symmetric and in the proximity of a superconductor. The Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 B. Y. Sun , M. W. Wu

We study the p-wave superconducting wire with a periodically modulated chemical potential and show that the Majorana edge states are robust against the periodic modulation. We find that the critical amplitude of modulated potential, at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-04 Li-Jun Lang , Shu Chen

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle states localized at the boundaries of topological superconductors that are expected to be ideal building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Several observations of zero-bias conductance peaks…

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

Experimental signatures of Majorana zero modes in a single superconducting quantum wire with spin-orbit coupling have been reported as zero bias peaks in the tunneling spectroscopy. We study whether these zero modes can persist in an array…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Da Wang , Zhoushen Huang , Congjun Wu

The zero-bias peak (ZBP) is understood as the definite signature of a Majorana bound state (MBS) when attached to a semi-infinite Kitaev nanowire (KNW) nearby zero temperature. However, such characteristics concerning the realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 V. L. Campo , L. S. Ricco , A. C. Seridonio

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 study the electronic conductance of dissipative Floquet Majorana zero modes (FMZMs) in a periodically driven nanowire coupled to a quantum dot. We use a numerical method which can accurately take into account the dissipation effects from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Nicolò Forcellini , Zhan Cao , Dong E. Liu