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Semiconductor nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling and proximity-induced s-wave superconductivity in an external magnetic field have been the most promising settings for approaches towards experimental evidence of topological Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Stefan Rex , Asle Sudbø

We derive an index theorem for zero-energy Majorana fermion modes in a superconductor-topological insulator system in both two and three dimensions, which is valid for models with chiral symmetry as well as particle-hole symmetry. For more…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 T. Fukui , T. Fujiwara

Majorana zero modes in condensed matter systems have been the subject of much interest in recent years. Their non-Abelian exchange statistics, making them a unique state of matter, and their potential applications in topological quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

We theoretically study bilayer superconducting topological insulator film, in which superconductivity exists for both top and bottom surface states. We show that an in-plane magnetic field can drive the system into Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LO)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-13 Lun-Hui Hu , Chao-Xing Liu , Fu-Chun Zhang

Majorana zero modes are usually attributed to topological superconductors. We study a class of two-dimensional topologically trivial superconductors without chiral edge modes, which nevertheless host robust Majorana zero modes in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-07 Zhongbo Yan , Ren Bi , Zhong Wang

The exploration of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes has become a rapidly developing field. Many types of proposals to realize topological superconductors have been presented, and significant advances have been recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-11 Yupeng Li , Zhu-An Xu

We present a novel controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes. The platform consists of a ferromagnetic metallic wire placed among conventional superconductors, which are in proximity to ferromagnetic insulators. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Giorgos Livanas , Nikolaos Vanas , Georgios Varelogiannis

We study Majorana zero modes properties in cylindrical cross-section semiconductor quantum wires based on the $k \cdot p$ theory and a discretized lattice model. Within this model, the influence of disorder potentials in the wire and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Chao Lei , Guru Khalsa , Jiangfeng Du , Allan H. MacDonald

We present a scheme to realize a topological superconducting system supporting Majorana zero modes, within a number-conserving framework suitable for optical-lattice experiments. Our approach builds on the engineering of pair-hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Anais Defossez , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Nathan Goldman

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

We theoretically investigate the possibility of obtaining Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in penta-silicene nanoribbons (p-SiNRs) with induced \textit{p}-wave superconductivity. The model explicitly considers an external magnetic field…

The signatures of Majorana zero-energy mode leaking into a spin-charge entangled double quantum dot are investigated theoretically in the strong electron correlation regime. The considered setup consists of two capacitively coupled quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

A clear demonstration of topological superconductivity (TS) and Majorana zero modes remains one of the major pending goal in the field of topological materials. One common strategy to generate TS is through the coupling of an s-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 P. San-Jose , J. L. Lado , R. Aguado , F. Guinea , J. Fernández-Rossier

We propose and investigate a new platform for the realization of Majorana zero modes in a thin-film heterostructure composed of an easy-plane ferromagnet and a superconductor with spin-orbit coupling. The system can support an energetically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-04 Vedangi Pathak , Sayak Dasgupta , Marcel Franz

Altermagnetism provides new routes to realize Majorana zero modes with vanishing net magnetization. We consider a recently proposed heterostructure consisting of a semiconducting wire on top of an altermagnet and with proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Andreas Hadjipaschalis , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

We employ general arguments and numerical simulations to show that unpaired Majorana zero modes can occur in cores of Abrikosov vortices at the interface between a three-dimensional topological insulator, such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$, and a twisted…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-13 Alejandro Mercado , Sharmistha Sahoo , M. Franz

We consider a new model system supporting Majorana zero modes based on semiconductor nanowires with a full superconducting shell. We demonstrate that, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling in the semiconductor induced by a radial electric…

We show the appearance of an unconventional Majorana zero mode whose wave function splits into multiple parts located at different ends of different topological superconductors, hereinafter referred to as a multi-locational Majorana zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

At zero temperature, a two-dimensional lattice of Majorana zero modes on mesoscopic superconducting islands exhibits a topologically-ordered toric code phase. Recently, a Landau field theory was used to describe the different phases of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Alexander Ziesen , Fabian Hassler , Ananda Roy

We propose an experimental setup of an interferometer for the observation of neutral Majorana fermions on topological insulator - superconductor - ferromagnet junctions. We show that the extended lattice defects naturally present in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Andrej Mesaros , Stefanos Papanikolaou , Jan Zaanen