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Motivated by a recent breakthrough transport experiment [Phys. Rev. B.107.245423 (2023)] in Majorana nanowires, we theoretically investigate local and nonlocal transport in Majorana nanowires in various disorder regimes, correlating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sankar Das Sarma , Haining Pan

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

We develop a Gaussian variational approach in replica space to investigate the phase diagram of a one-dimensional interacting disordered topological superconducting wire in the strong coupling regime. This method allows for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Francois Crépin , Gergely Zaránd , Pascal Simon

We consider theoretically the physics of bulk topological superconductivity accompanied by boundary non-Abelian Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid systems consisting of finite wires in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu

We show that semiconductor nanowires coupled to an s-wave superconductor provide a playground to study effects of interactions between different topological superconducting phases supporting Majorana zero-energy modes. We consider quasi-one…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-30 Roman M. Lutchyn , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We analyze the effects of electron-electron interactions and disorder on a Rashba double-nanowire setup coupled to an s-wave superconductor, which has been recently proposed as a versatile platform to generate Kramers pairs of Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 Manisha Thakurathi , Pascal Simon , Ipsita Mandal , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We investigate the effect of interactions on the stability of a disordered, two-dimensional topological insulator realized as an array of nanowires or chains of magnetic atoms on a superconducting substrate. The Majorana zero-energy modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 A. Milsted , L. Seabra , I. C. Fulga , C. W. J. Beenakker , E. Cobanera

Majorana bound states are zero-energy modes localized at the ends of a one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductor. Introducing disorder usually increases the Majorana localization length, until eventually inducing a topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-08 Arbel Haim , Ady Stern

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of interacting and disordered topological phases of coupled Kitaev wires, which may support further realistic applications of Majorana fermions. We develop a variety of analytical, mathematical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-08 Frederick Del Pozo , Loïc Herviou , Olesia Dmytruk , Karyn Le Hur

Majorana modes emerge in non-trivial topological phases at the edges of some specific materials, like proximitized semiconducting nanowires under a external magnetic field. Ideally, they are non-local states that are charge neutral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Samuel D. Escribano , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

The interplay of disorder and short finite wire length is the crucial physics hindering progress in the semiconductor-superconductor nanowire platform for realizing non-Abelian Majorana zero modes (MZM). Disorder effectively segments the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

Recent experiments have produced mounting evidence of Majorana zero modes in nanowire-superconductor hybrids. Signatures of an expected topological phase transition accompanying the onset of these modes nevertheless remain elusive. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Ryan V. Mishmash , David Aasen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Jason Alicea

Majorana fermions in some model semiconductor nanowires proximity coupled with \emph{s}-wave superconductor have been investigated, as well as other intragap bound states in topological phase of a Rashba nanowire with non-uniform spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-11 Zhen-Hua Wang , Eduardo V. Castro , Hai-Qing Lin

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor. We show that when odd number of subbands are occupied the system realizes non-trivial topological state supporting Majorana modes localized at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-31 Roman M. Lutchyn , Tudor Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

Among the broad spectrum of systems predicted to exhibit topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions, one-dimensional wires with strong spin-orbit coupling provide one of the most promising experimental candidates. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-15 E. M. Stoudenmire , Jason Alicea , Oleg A. Starykh , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We study a semiconductor wire with strong spin-orbit coupling, which is proximity-coupled to a superconductor with chemical potential disorder. When tunneling at the semiconductor- superconductor interface is very weak, it is known that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-02 William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

Odd-frequency superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. Majorana zero modes exhibit pure odd-frequency superconducting correlations due to their specific…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

We study a Majorana-carrying quantum wire, driven into a trivial phase by breaking the spatial inversion symmetry with a tilted external magnetic field. Interestingly, we predict that a supercurrent applied in the proximate superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Xiong-Jun Liu , Alejandro M. Lobos

In this work we investigate Majorana correlations in quantum impurities coupled to a topological superconducting wire. By employing a density matrix renormalization group approach, we have calculated the Majorana correlation functions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-27 G. S. Diniz , E. Vernek

In this work, we investigate the effect of disorder on the topological properties of multichannel superconductor nanowires. While the standard expectation is that the spectral gap is closed and opened at transitions that change the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 B. Pekerten , A. Teker , O. Bozat , M. Wimmer , I. Adagideli
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