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In a recent experiment, flux dependent oscillations of the quantum capacitance were observed in a one dimensional spin-orbit coupled semiconductor superconductor heterostructure connected end to end via a quantum dot and threaded by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

We investigate the rich non-equilibrium physics arising in periodically driven open quantum systems, specifically those realized within microcavity resonators, whose dynamics are governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian hosting Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Gaurab Kumar Dash , Subhendu Kumar Patra , Diptiman Sen , Manisha Thakurathi

We present a pedagogical review of topological superconductivity and its consequences in spin-orbit coupled semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures. We start by reviewing the historical origins of the notions of Dirac and Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-22 Jay Sau , Sumanta Tewari

We study the decoherence dynamics of Majorana qubit braiding operations in a topological superconducting chain (TSC) system, in which the braiding is performed by controlling the electron-chemical potentials of the TSCs and the couplings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Hon-Lam Lai , Wei-Min Zhang

It is shown that certain fractionally-charged quasiparticles can be modeled on \(D-\)dimensional lattices in terms of unconventional yet simple Fock algebras of creation and annihilation operators. These unconventional Fock algebras are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-23 Emilio Cobanera

We study the effects of a periodically driven electric field applied to a variety of tight-binding models in one dimension. We first consider a non-interacting system with or without a staggered on-site potential, and we find that that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Samudra Sur , Diptiman Sen

A Dirac-type matrix equation governs surface excitations in a topological insulator in contact with an s-wave superconductor. The order parameter can be homogenous or vortex valued. In the homogenous case a winding number can be defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-13 C. Chamon , R. Jackiw , Y. Nishida , S. -Y. Pi , L. Santos

We study nanowire-based Josephson junctions shunted by a capacitor and take into account the presence of low-energy quasiparticle excitations. These are treated by extending conventional models used to describe superconducting qubits to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Anna Keselman , Chaitanya Murthy , Bernard van Heck , Bela Bauer

We introduce a new hybrid qubit consisting of a Majorana qubit interacting with a transmon longitudinally coupled to a resonator. To do so, we equip the longitudinal transmon qubit with topological quasiparticles, supported by an array of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Alec Dinerstein , Caroline S. Gorham , Eugene F. Dumitrescu

Chiral superconductors have the ability to host topologically protected Majorana zero modes which have been proposed as future qubits for topological quantum computing. The recently introduced magnet--superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Eric Mascot , Sagen Cocklin , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

We study a Majorana-carrying quantum wire, driven into a trivial phase by breaking the spatial inversion symmetry with a tilted external magnetic field. Interestingly, we predict that a supercurrent applied in the proximate superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Xiong-Jun Liu , Alejandro M. Lobos

We theoretically study superconducting islands based on semiconductor-nanowire Josephson junctions and take into account the presence of subgap quasiparticle excitations in the spectrum of the junction. Our method extends the standard model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-06 J. Avila , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado

The non-Abelian topological order for superconductors is characterized by the existence of zero-energy Majorana fermions in edges of systems and in a vortex of a macroscopic condensate, which obey the non-Abelian statistics. This paper is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-13 Masatoshi Sato , Yoshiro Takahashi , Satoshi Fujimoto

Topological Majorana fermion (MF) quasiparticles have been recently suggested to exist in semiconductor quantum wires with proximity induced superconductivity and a Zeeman field. Although the experimentally observed zero bias tunneling peak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jay D. Sau , Brian Swingle , Sumanta Tewari

Floquet engineering, modulating quantum systems in a time periodic way, lies at the central part for realizing novel topological dynamical states. Thanks to the Floquet engineering, various new realms on experimentally simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Huan-Yu Wang , Xiao-Ming Zhao , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

Much having learned about Floquet dynamics of pseudospin-$1/2$ system namely, graphene, we here address the stroboscopic properties of a periodically kicked {three-band fermionic system such as $\alpha$-T$_3$ lattice. This particular model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Lakpa Tamang , Tanay Nag , Tutul Biswas

As the condensed matter analog of Majorana fermion, the Majorana zero-mode is well known as a building block of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. This review focuses on the recent progress of Majorana experiments, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ji-Bang Fu , Bin Li , Xin-Fang Zhang , Guang-Zheng Yu , Guang-Yao Huang , Ming-Tang Deng

We show that one dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity can be placed in the context of phenomena associated with strongly correlated electron systems. Here we propose a system consisting of a one-dimensional chain of strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-12 Kaushal Kumar Kesharpu , Evgenii A. Kochetov , Alvaro Ferraz

Majorana fermions are predicted to play a crucial role in condensed matter realizations of topological quantum computation. These heretofore undiscovered quasiparticles have been predicted to exist at the cores of vortex excitations in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hsiang-Hsuan Hung , Pouyan Ghaemi , Taylor L. Hughes , Matthew J. Gilbert

We consider a wire network of ferromagnetic impurities on the surface of an $s$-wave superconductor with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Within the topological phase, zero-energy Majorana fermions appear at wire end-points as well as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-14 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer