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By tuning the magnetic flux, the two ends of a 1D topological superconductor weakly coupled to a normal metal as a ring-shaped junction can host split Majorana zero modes (MZMs). When this ring geometry becomes Coulomb blockaded, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Ching-Kai Chiu , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We consider a voltage-biased Josephson junction between two nanowires hosting Majorana zero modes which occur as topological protected zero-energy excitations at the junction. We show that two Majorana fermions localized at the junction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 Christoph Ohm , Fabian Hassler

We investigate the dynamical and transport features of a Kondo dot side-coupled to a topological superconductor (TS). The Majorana fermion states (MFS) formed at the ends of the TS are found to be able to alter the Kondo physics profoundly:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-24 Minchul Lee , Jong Soo Lim , Heunghwan Khim , Rosa Lopez

We study the low-energy eigenstates of a topological superconductor wire modeled by a Kitaev chain, which is connected at one of its ends to a quantum dot through nearest-neighbor (NN) hopping and NN Coulomb repulsion. Using an unrestricted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 R. Kenyi Takagui Perez , A. A. Aligia

We study a topological superconductor island with spatially separated Majorana modes coupled to multiple normal metal leads by single electron tunneling in the Coulomb blockade regime. We show that low-temperature transport in such Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Karen Michaeli , L. Aviad Landau , Eran Sela , Liang Fu

We consider a system of weakly coupled Rashba nanowires in the strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) regime. The nanowires are arranged into two tunnel-coupled layers proximitized by a top and bottom superconductor such that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We discuss electric transport through a point contact which bridges Majorana fermion modes appearing at edges of two helical superconductors. The contents focus on effects of interference and interaction unique to the Majorana fermions and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-05 Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

The Josephson supercurrent in a Nb-InAs nanowire-Nb junction was studied experimentally. The nanowire goes superconducting due to the proximity effect, and can sustain a phase coherent supercurrent. An unexpected modulation of the junction…

We investigate persistent currents in metallic rings interrupted by a Coulomb blockaded topological superconducting segment. We show that the presence of Majorana bound states in the superconductor is reflected in the emergence of an h/e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Philippe Jacquod , Markus Buttiker

It is shown that the presence of the Majorana fermion edge states along the perimeter of a topological superconductor can be probed using an interacting quantum dot coupled to three terminals: two spin-polarized (ferromagnetic) leads and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-15 Rok Zitko

We consider one-dimensional topological insulators hosting fractionally charged midgap states in the presence and absence of induced superconductivity pairing. Under the protection of a discrete symmetry, relating positive and negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Doru Sticlet , Luis Seabra , Frank Pollmann , Jérôme Cayssol

We investigate the linear thermoelectric response of an interacting quantum dot side-coupled by one of two Majorana fermions (MFs) formed at the ends of a topological superconducting wire. We employ the numerical renormalization group…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-22 Heunghwan Khim , Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim , Minchul Lee

We investigate the Majorana physics and its effect on the electron transport in the non-topological superconductor(NS)-topological superconductor(TS) double junctions of a ring geometry. We find that, depending on the ratio between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Minchul Lee , Heunghwan Khim , Mahn-Soo Choi

We numerically analyze the effect of finite length of the superconducting regions on the low-energy spectrum, current-phase curves, and critical currents in junctions between trivial and topological superconductors. Such junctions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We investigate the charge transport in a semiconductor nanowire that is subject to a perpendicular magnetic field and in partial contact with an \textit{s}-wave superconductor. We find that Majorana fermions, existing at the interface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-27 Chunlei Qu , Yongping Zhang , Li Mao , Chuanwei Zhang

The Josephson supercurrent through the hybrid Majorana--quantum dot--Majorana junction is investigated. We particularly analyze the effect of spin-selective coupling between the Majorana and quantum dot states, which emerges only in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Qing-Feng Sun

One-dimensional nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling and proximity-induced superconductivity are predicted to exhibit topological superconductivity with condensed-matter analogues to Majorana fermions. Here, the nonequilibrium Green's…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-17 Riku Tuovinen

Recent tunneling spectroscopy experiments in semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity have reported robust zero-bias conductance peaks. Such a feature can be compatible with the existence of topological Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Esben Bork Hansen , Jeroen Danon , Karsten Flensberg

We investigate the properties of electron states localized at the edge of a superconducting island placed on the surface of a topological insulator in a magnetic field. In such systems, Majorana fermions emerge if an odd number of vortices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 R. S. Akzyanov , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , Franco Nori

Based on the many-particle-number-state treatment for transport through a pair of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) which are coupled to the leads via two quantum dots, we identify that the reason for zero cross correlation of currents at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Wei Feng , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li