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Engineering effective p-wave superconductors hosting Majorana quasiparticles (MQPs) is nowadays of particular interest, also in view of the possible utilization of MQPs in fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. In quasi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Magdalena Marganska , Lars Milz , Wataru Izumida , Christoph Strunk , Milena Grifoni

We study the boundary Majorana modes for the single component p-wave weak topological superconductors or superfluids, which form zero energy flat bands protected by time-reversal symmetry in the orbital channel. However, due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-20 Yi Li , Da Wang , Congjun Wu

The pursuit for Majorana fermions is one of the top priorities in condensed matter physics at the moment. In this work we propose a new method of fabricating Majorana Josephson devices in systems with a weak or no spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Teemu Ojanen

We show that two-band superconductors harbor hidden criticality deep in the superconducting state, stemming from the critical temperature of the weaker band taken as an independent system. For sufficiently small interband coupling $\gamma$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-19 L. Komendová , Yajiang Chen , A. A. Shanenko , M. V. Milošević , F. M. Peeters

We study by means of the recursive Green's function technique the local density-of-states of (finite and semi-infinite) multi-band spin-orbit coupled semiconducting nanowires in proximity to an s-wave superconductor and attached to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Marco Gibertini , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini , Rosario Fazio

The ballistic conductance through a device consisting of quantum wires, to which two stubs are attached laterally, is calculated assuming parabolic confining potentials of frequencies $\omega_w$ for the wires and $\omega_s$ for the stubs.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 R. Akis , P. Vasilopoulos , P. Debray

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) emerging at the edges of topological superconducting wires have been proposed as the building blocks of novel, fault-tolerant quantum computation protocols. Coherent detection and manipulation of such states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Jesus D. Cifuentes , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

Theoretical studies have shown that Majorana bound states can be induced at the ends of a one dimensional wire, a phenomenon possible due to the interplay between s-wave superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling, and an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Andrzej Ptok

We review the properties of Majorana fermions in particle physics and point out that Majorana modes in solid state systems are significantly different. The key reason is the concept of anti-particle in solid state systems is different from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

In a recent work [Potter and Lee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 227003 (2010)], it was demonstrated by means of numerical diagonalization that the Majorana end states can be localized at opposite ends of a sample of an ideal spinless p-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-12 Bin Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

There are still debates on whether the observed zero energy peak in the experiment by Stevan {\it et al.} [Science 346, 602(2014)] reveals the existence of the long pursuing Majorana bound states (MBS). we propose that, by mounting two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-09 Ye Xiong

A time-reversal invariant topological superconductivity is suggested to be realized in a quasi-one dimensional structure on a plane, which is fabricated by filling the superconducting materials into the periodic channel of dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Nakhmedov , S. Mammadova , O. Alekperov

The Majorana edge states of the Kitaev chain model have attracted extensive attention on their stability and experimental realization. One of the interesting aspects is finding the exotic proximity effect, which guarantees the presence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-16 Junmo Jeon , SungBin Lee

Zero--energy Majorana quasiparticles can be induced at the edge of a low dimensional systems. Non--Abelian statistics of this state makes it a good candidate for the realization of quantum computing. From the practical point of view, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Aksel Kobiałka , Andrzej Ptok

Majorana corner modes appearing in two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors have great potential applications for fault-tolerant topological quantum computations. We demonstrate that in the presence of an in-plane magentic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-07 S. Ikegaya , W. B. Rui , D. Manske , Andreas P. Schnyder

Conventional topological superconductors are fully gapped in the bulk but host gapless Majorana modes on their boundaries. We instead focus on a new class of superconductors, second-order topological superconductors, that have gapped,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-09 Yuxuan Wang , Mao Lin , Taylor L. Hughes

We theoretically study a spin-orbit-coupled nanowire proximitized by a superconductor in the presence of an externally applied Zeeman field ("Majorana nanowire") with zero-energy Majorana bound states localized at the two ends of the wire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Yingyi Huang , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

We study the edge states for a quantum anomalous Hall system (QAHS) coupled with a spin-singlet s-wave superconductor through the proximity effect, and clarify the topological nature of them. When we consider a superconducting pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-10 Akihiro Ii , Keiji Yada , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka

We show that the topologically trivial zero bias peak (ZBP) emerging in semiconductor Majorana wires due to soft confinement exhibits correlated splitting oscillations as a function of the applied Zeeman field, similar to the correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

Odd-frequency Cooper pairs are gathering attention for the convenience of investigating the edge state of topological superconductors including Majorana fermions. Although a spinless p-wave superconductor has only one Majorana fermion in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-08 Daijiro Takagi , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Yukio Tanaka , Mario Cuoco