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We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of quantum-dot based structures where Kondo correlations dominate the electronic dynamics. The coupling to ferromagnetic leads with parallel magnetizations is known to give rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez , Mahn-Soo Choi

We bosonize a Fermi liquid in any number of dimensions in the limit of long wavelengths. From the bosons we construct a set of coherent states which are related with the displacement of the Fermi surface due to particle-hole excitations. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. H. Castro Neto , Eduardo Fradkin

Two majorana Fermions (MFs) localized at the two ends of the topological superconducting wire can interfere with each other and form the well known $4\pi$ Josephson current. We reveal that the density of states (Dos) for the electron part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Jie Liu , Juntao Song , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Zero-energy Majorana bound states in superconductors have been proposed to be potential building blocks of a topological quantum computer, because quantum information can be encoded in the fermion occupation of a pair of {\it spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Liang Fu

The interaction of a lattice of localized magnetic moments with a sea of conduction electrons in Kondo lattice models induces rich quantum phases of matter, such as Fermi liquids with heavily renormalized electronic quasiparticles, quantum…

In this paper we find that confining a second-order topological superconductor with a harmonic potential leads to a proliferation of Majorana corner modes. As a consequence, this results in the formation of Majorana corner flat bands which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-05 Majid Kheirkhah , Yuki Nagai , Chun Chen , Frank Marsiglio

Nonlocal entanglement between two quantum dots can be generated through Majorana fermions. The two Majorana fermions at the ends of an one-dimensional topological superconductor form a nonlocal fermion level, coupling to the occupation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

It has been recently pointed out that the use of a superconducting (SC) lead instead of a normal metal lead can suppress the thermal broadening effects in tunneling conductance from Majorana fermions, helping reveal the quantized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-20 Gargee Sharma , Sumanta Tewari

Theoretically, a pair of Majorana bound states in a topological superconductor forms a single fermionic level even at large separations, implying that the parity information is stored nonlocally. The nonlocality leads to a long-distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Zheng Shi , Piet W. Brouwer , Karsten Flensberg , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

Non-abelian anyons are highly desired for topological quantum computation purposes, with Majorana fermions providing a promising route, particularly zero modes with non-trivial mutual statistics. Yet realizing Majorana zero modes in matter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-23 Milan Kornjača , Victor L. Quito , Rebecca Flint

We propose a theoretical framework for the realization of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) pairing in a helical Shiba chain subjected to an out-of-plane Zeeman field, analyzed through a self-consistent Bogoliubov-de-Gennes (BdG)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-04 Sayak Bhowmik , Arijit Saha

We present a new scheme for Majorana modes in systems with nonsymmporhic-symmetry-protected band degeneracy. We reveal that when the gapless fermionic excitations are encoded with conventional superconductivity and magnetism, which can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhongyi Zhang , Zhenfei Wu , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Shengshan Qin

All models of interacting electrons and spins can be reformulated as theories of interacting Majorana fermions. We consider the Kondo lattice model that admits a symmetric representation in terms of Majorana fermions. In the first part of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-06 Johan Nilsson , Matteo Bazzanella

Superconducting proximity pairing in helical edge modes, such as those of topological insulators (TI), is predicted to provide a unique platform for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs). We use scanning tunneling microscopy measurements to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Berthold Jäck , Yonglong Xie , Jian Li , Sangjun Jeon , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

Spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot side attached to a topological superconductor and coupled to a pair of normal leads is discussed in Coulomb and Kondo regimes. For discussion of Coulomb range equation of motion method with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński , G. Cuniberti

We propose an exactly solvable momentum-space Kondo-BCS model to study heavy fermion superconductivity. The Kondo interaction is local in momentum space, which can be derived from an Anderson lattice with a Hatsugai-Kohmoto interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-17 Jiangfan Wang , Yu Li , Yi-feng Yang

In this paper, we investigate the electronic transport properties of a quantum dot (QD) connected to two ferromagnetic leads and one superconductor lead in the Kondo regime by means of the finite-$U$ slave boson mean field approach and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 C. Lee , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We investigate the interplay between ferromagnetic and superconducting order at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator. Using complementary analytical and self-consistent numerical approaches, we study a ferromagnetic Josephson junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jacob Linder

The Kondo effect in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid ($U<<t$) is studied by using the non-Abelian bosonization. The $q=2k_F$ enhanced spin fluctuations generate a special Kondo effect, for any sign of the exchange coupling $J_K$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Le Hur

Topological superconductors, which support Majorana fermion excitations, have been the subject of intense studies due to their novel transport properties and their potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computations. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-24 James Jun He , Jiansheng Wu , Ting-Pong Choy , Xiong-Jun Liu , Y. Tanaka , K. T. Law