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Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

The paired state of composite fermions is expected to support two kinds of excitations: vortices and unpaired composite fermions. We construct an explicit microscopic description of the unpaired composite fermions, which we demonstrate to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-21 G. J. Sreejith , Arkadiusz Wojs , Jainendra K. Jain

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticles that hold promise as building blocks for topological quantum computing. However, the litmus test for their detection, the observation of exotic non-abelian statistics revealed by braiding, has so far…

Strongly interacting fermions underpin some of the most challenging problems in condensed matter physics, such as high-temperature superconductivity. The low-energy states of these systems encode their essential microscopic properties, yet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Henning Schlömer , Liyuan Chen , Susanne F. Yelin , Hong-Ye Hu

We investigate dissipation-induced p-wave paired states of fermions in two dimensions and show the existence of spatially separated Majorana zero modes in a phase with vanishing Chern number. We construct an explicit and natural model of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-07 C. -E. Bardyn , M. A. Baranov , E. Rico , A. Imamoglu , P. Zoller , S. Diehl

In this paper, we show that a system of localized particles, satisfying the Fermi statistics and subject to finite-range interactions, can be exactly solved in any dimension. In fact, in this case it is always possible to find a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ferdinando Mancini

In recent years, the study of Majorana signatures in quantum transport has become a central focus in condensed matter physics. Here, we present a rigorous and systematic derivation of the fermionic superoperator describing the open quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jia-Lin Pan , Zi-Fan Zhu , Shixuan Chen , Yu Su , Yao Wang

Recently, it was established that there exists a direct relation between the non-Hermitian skin effects, -strong dependence of spectra on boundary conditions for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians-, and boundary zero modes for Hermitian topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Nobuyuki Okuma , Masatoshi Sato

Motivated by recent experimental progress in the realization of hybrid structures with a topologically superconducting nanowire coupled to a quantum dot, viewed through the lens of the emerging field of correlated Majorana fermions, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 G. Shankar , Joseph Maciejko

It has been widely believed that half quantum vortices are indispensable to realize topological stable Majorana zero modes and non-Abelian anyons in spinful superconductors/superfluids. Contrary to this wisdom, we here demonstrate that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 Masatoshi Sato , Ai Yamakage , Takeshi Mizushima

We show that an open fermionic system coupled to continuous environment with unitary system-environment evolution can be exactly mapped onto an auxiliary system consisting of the physical fermion system and a set of discrete fermionic modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Feng Chen , Enrico Arrigoni , Michael Galperin

We simulate the non-Abelian exchange of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) on a quantum computer. Rather than utilizing MZMs at the boundaries of quantum Ising chains, which are typically represented as nonlocal operators on a quantum computer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Foster Sabatino , Matthew Brooks , Charles Tahan , Silas Hoffman

We present a strategy for mapping the dynamics of a fermionic quantum system to a set of classical dynamical variables. The approach is based on imposing the correspondence relation between the commutator and the Poisson bracket, preserving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Amikam Levy , Wenjie Dou , Eran Rabani , David T. Limmer

Obeying non-Abelian statistics, Majorana fermions holds a promise to implement fault-tolerant quantum computing. It was found that Majorana fermions can be simulated by the zero-energy excitation in a nanowire with strong spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ming-Jian Gao , Yu-Peng Ma , Jun-Hong An

We prove that quantum information encoded in some topological excitations, including certain Majorana zero modes, is protected in closed systems for a time scale exponentially long in system parameters. This protection holds even at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-20 Dominic V. Else , Paul Fendley , Jack Kemp , Chetan Nayak

We present a procedure for exactly diagonalizing finite-range quadratic fermionic Hamiltonians with arbitrary boundary conditions in one of D dimensions, and periodic in the remaining D-1. The key is a Hamiltonian-dependent separation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-27 Abhijeet Alase , Emilio Cobanera , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

We show that long-ranged superconducting order is not necessary to guarantee the existence of Majorana fermion zero modes at the ends of a quantum wire. We formulate a concrete model which applies, for instance, to a semiconducting quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Lukasz Fidkowski , Roman M. Lutchyn , Chetan Nayak , Matthew P. A. Fisher

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

Entanglement is analyzed in the Majorana fermion conformal field theory (CFT) in the vacuum, in the fermion state, and in states built from conformal interfaces. In the boundary-state approach, the Hilbert space admits two factorizations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Christian Northe

We construct the complete set of boundary states of two-dimensional fermionic CFTs using that of the bosonic counterpart. We see that there are two groups of boundary conditions, which contributes to the open-string partition function by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Hiromi Ebisu , Masataka Watanabe