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Numerical calculations for Majorana zero modes on a one-dimensional chain are performed using the technique of block diagonalization for general parameter settings. It is found that Majorana zero modes occur near the ends of the chain and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-20 Lei Chen , W. LiMing , Jia-Hui Huang

Vortices in chiral topological superconductors are known for trapping Majorana zero modes as a signature response to their bulk-state topologies. In this work, we establish a similar bulk-vortex correspondence for two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-04 Rui-Xing Zhang

A concrete and experimentally feasible example for testing the putative Majorana zero energy state bound in a vortex is theoretically proposed for a parallel plate geometry of superfluid $^3$He-A phase. We examine the experimental setup in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Tsutsumi , T. Kawakami , T. Mizushima , M. Ichioka , K. Machida

Although the appearance of vortex-localized states with zero energy in first-order topological superconductors is well known, their possibility to form in the higher-order topological phase of 2D systems has not been completely uncovered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-06 A. D. Fedoseev , A. O. Zlotnikov

We show that a one dimensional ultra-cold Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions exhibits a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in spite of total number conservation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-09 Jonathan Ruhman , Ehud Altman

We consider the one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductor that may form in a planar superconductor-metal-superconductor Josephson junction in which the metal is is subjected to spin orbit coupling and to an in-plane magnetic field.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-27 Ady Stern , Erez Berg

We demonstrate the successful simulation of $\sqrt{Z}$-, $\sqrt{X}$- and $X$-quantum gates using Majorana zero modes (MZMs) that emerge in magnetic vortices located in topological superconductors. We compute the transition probabilities and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Maxwell Buss , Jasmin Bedow , Prashant Gupta , Dirk K. Morr

The effects of geometry on the hosting of Majorana zero modes are explored in core-shell nanowires with a hexagonal core and a triangular shell, and vice versa. The energy interval separating electronic states localized in the corners from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 Kristjan Ottar Klausen , Anna Sitek , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu

We introduce the concept of spinful many-particle Majorana modes with local odd operator products, thereby preserving their local statistics. We consider a superconductor-double-quantum-dot system where these modes can arise with negligible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Anthony R. Wright , Menno Veldhorst

We show that magnetic zero-modes of the Dirac operator on $\mathbb{R}^3$ which obey an additional non-linear equation are closely related to vortex configurations on the 2-sphere, and that both are best understood in terms of the geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Calum Ross , Bernd Schroers

We argue that having an odd number of Majorana fermion zero modes on a dynamical point-like soliton signifies an inconsistency in a theory with 3+1 and higher dimensions. We check this statement in a couple of examples in field theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Yotaro Sato , Yuji Tachikawa , Taizan Watari

Majorana zero modes are central to the pursuit of fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. While traditionally sought in one-dimensional hybrid nanowires, a robust alternative platform involves heterostructures combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 A. S. Slobodskoi , S. S. Apostoloff , I. S. Burmistrov

The Kitaev model is exactly solvable in terms of Majorana fermions hopping on a honeycomb lattice and coupled to a static $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge field, giving the possibility of $\pi$-vortices in hexagonal plaquettes. In the vortex-full…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-28 Surajit Basak , Jean-Noël Fuchs

The possible stable singular vortex (SV) and half-quantum vortex (HQV) of the superfluid $^3$He-A phase confined in restricted geometries are investigated. The associated low-energy excitations are calculated in connection with the possible…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 Takuto Kawakami , Takeshi Mizushima , Kazushige Machida

Spatial separation of Majorana zero modes distinguishes trivial from topological midgap states and is key to topological protection in quantum computing applications. Although signatures of Majorana zero modes in tunneling spectroscopy have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 M. T. Deng , S. Vaitiekénas , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , R. Aguado , C. M. Marcus

We study the possibility to realize Majorana zero mode that's robust and may be easily manipulated for braiding in quantum computing in the ground state of the Kitaev model in this work. To achieve this we first apply a uniform [111]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Lu Yang , Jia-Xing Zhang , Shuang Liang , Wei Chen , Qiang-Hua Wang

Zero modes of rotationally symmetric vortices in a hierarchy of generalized Abelian Higgs models are studied. Under the finite-energy and the smoothness condition, it is shown, that in all models, $n$ self-dual vortices superimposed at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 J. Burzlaff , D. H. Tchrakian

We present a simple model of Majorana fermions on a square lattice, and study zero-energy states due to Z$_2$ vortices. We show the relationship between the Chern number of the ground state and the number of the zero-energy states by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-28 K. Ejima , T. Fukui

We analyze the fluctuations of Nielsen-Olesen vortices arising in the six-dimensional Abelian-Higgs model. The regular geometry generated by the defect breaks spontaneously six-dimensional Poincar\'e symmetry leading to a warped space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Massimo Giovannini , Jean-Vincent Le Be , Stephane Riederer

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are highly sought-after states with a possible application in quantum computation. Here, we show that vortex-core MZMs can carry a nontrivial angular momentum. This establishes new `flavors' of Majorana modes,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-19 Giulia Venditti , Christophe Berthod , Louk Rademaker