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Topological superconductors support Majorana modes, which are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles and which obey non-Abelian statistics in which successive exchanges of particles do not always commute. Here we investigate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-29 Jonathan Schirmer , J. K. Jain , C. -X. Liu

We study the sudden quench of a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor through its topological signature in the entanglement spectrum. The long-time evolution of the system and its topological characterization depend on a pseudomagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Ming-Chiang Chung , Yi-Hao Jhu , Pochung Chen , Chung-Yu Mou , Xin Wan

We present a simple approach to create a strong $p$-wave interaction for fermions in an optical lattice. The crucial step is that the combination of a lattice setup with different orbital states and $s$-wave interactions can give rise to a…

We study the Majorana bound states arising in quasi-one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman magnetic field. Using two different methods, first, the numerical diagonalization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Julien Despres , Ipsita Mandal , Cristina Bena

We propose a platform based on a fully compensated ferrimagnet (fFIM) for realizing and controlling topological superconductivity with Majorana bound states across multiple dimensions. Through symmetry analysis and microscopic modeling, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Yu-Xuan Li , Yicheng Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases, characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces of samples and in vortex cores of topological superconductors,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-03 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

We have investigated the effects of long-range Coulomb interaction on the topological superconducting phase in a quasi-one dimensional semiconductor wire, proximity coupled to a s-wave using the exact diagonalization approach. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Areg Ghazaryan , Tapash Chakraborty

Topological superfluid, new quantum matter that possesses gapless exotic excitations known as Majorana fermions, has attracted extensive attention recently. These excitations, which can encode topological qubits, could be crucial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-18 Liang-Liang Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana fermions, their role in topological quantum computation, and the possibility of realizing them in condensed matter systems, has attracted considerable attention. While there have been recent reports of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 David Nozadze , Nandini Trivedi

We study the properties of a quantum dot coupled to a one-dimensional topological superconductor and a normal lead and discuss the interplay between Kondo and Majorana-induced couplings in quantum dot. The latter appears due to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Meng Cheng , Michael Becker , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn

Topological phases which host Majorana fermions can not be identified via local order parameters. We give simple nonlocal order parameters to distinguish quasi-one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductors of spinless fermions, for any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-29 Yasaman Bahri , Ashvin Vishwanath

We investigate the emergence of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the two-dimensional electron gas formed at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (001) interface. Using a realistic multiband tight binding model that incorporates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Piotr Żeberek , Paweł Wójcik

The combination of a superconductor (SC) and a topological insulator (TI) nanowire was proposed as a potential candidate for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In this study, we adopt the Schr\"odinger-Poisson formalism to incorporate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Li Chen , Xiao-Hong Pan , Zhan Cao , Dong E. Liu , Xin Liu

We numerically investigate the ground state of the extended $t$-$J$ Hamiltonian with periodic local modulations in one dimension by using the density-matrix renormalization group method. Examining charge and spin excitation gaps, as well as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-12 Yong-Feng Yang , Jing Chen , Chen Cheng , Hong-Gang Luo

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

A distinct electronic structure was observed in the single-layer FeSe which shows surprising high temperature superconductivity over 65k. Here we demonstrate that the electronic structure can be explained by the strain effect due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-29 Ningning Hao , Jiangping Hu

We propose a topological field theory for a spin-less two-dimensional chiral superconductor that contains fundamental Majorana fields. Due to a fermionic gauge symmetry, the Majorana modes survive as dynamical degrees of freedom only at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-12 T. H. Hansson , A. Karlhede , Masatoshi Sato

For two- and three-dimensional topological insulators whose unit cells consist of multiple sublattices, the boundary terminating at which type of sublattice can affect the time-reversal invariant momentum at which the Dirac points of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-28 Di Zhu , Bo-Xuan Li , Zhongbo Yan

In this paper, a one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasiperiodic $p$-wave superconductor without $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry is studied. By analyzing the spectrum, we discovered there still exists real-complex energy transition even if the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-26 Shujie Cheng , Gao Xianlong

We investigate the occurrence of Majorana modes in semiconductor quantum wires in close proximity with a superconductor and when both, Rashba interaction and magnetic field, are present. We consider long, but finite, multiband wires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Jong Soo Lim , Llorens Serra , Rosa Lopez , Ramon Aguado