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Motivated by a recent breakthrough transport experiment [Phys. Rev. B.107.245423 (2023)] in Majorana nanowires, we theoretically investigate local and nonlocal transport in Majorana nanowires in various disorder regimes, correlating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sankar Das Sarma , Haining Pan

Superconducting wires without time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetries can be driven into a topological phase that supports Majorana bound states. Direct detection of these zero-energy states is complicated by the proliferation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , J. P. Dahlhaus , F. Hassler , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

Robust zero bias transport anomalies in semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity have been convincingly demonstrated in various experiments. While these are compatible with the existence of Majorana zero modes at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado , Pablo San-Jose

We develop a theory for the three-terminal nonlocal conductance in Majorana nanowires as existing in the superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures in the presence of superconducting proximity, spin-orbit coupling, and Zeeman splitting.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Haining Pan , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

In this paper, we investigate the non-Markovian quantum transport dynamics of a two-terminal Majorana device that is made of an asymmetric topological superconducting chain coupled to two leads. This asymmetric superconducting chain is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Wei-Min Zhang

Recent experiments have produced mounting evidence of Majorana zero modes in nanowire-superconductor hybrids. Signatures of an expected topological phase transition accompanying the onset of these modes nevertheless remain elusive. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Ryan V. Mishmash , David Aasen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Jason Alicea

We theoretically consider transport properties of a normal metal (N)- superconducting semiconductor nanowire (S)-normal metal (N) structure (NSN) in the context of the possible existence of Majorana bound states in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

Topological superconductors can host Majorana quasiparticles which supersede the fermion/boson dichotomy and offer a pathway to fault tolerant quantum computation. In one-dimensional systems zero-energy Majorana states are bound to the ends…

We theoretically study quantum transport through a quantum dot coupled to Majorana bound states confined at the ends of a topological superconducting nanowire. The topological superconductor forms a loop and is threaded by a tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Levente Máthé , Doru Sticlet , Liviu P. Zârbo

We investigate electron transport through multiterminal networks hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) in the framework of full counting statistics (FCS). In particular, we apply our general results to T-shaped junctions of two Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Luzie Weithofer , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

Spin-orbit coupled semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity are expected to host Majorana zero modes at their endpoints when a sufficiently strong magnetic field is applied. The resulting phase would be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 David J. Clarke

We investigate electron transport inside a ring system composed of a quantum dot (QD) coupled to two Majorana bound states confined at the ends of a one-dimensional topological superconductor nanowire. By tuning the magnetic flux threading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Qi-Bo Zeng , Shu Chen , L. You , Rong Lv

Interplay between superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field can lead to realisation of the topologically non--trivial states which in finite one dimensional nanowires are manifested by emergence of a pair of zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Aksel Kobiałka , Tadeusz Domański , Andrzej Ptok

We study the interplay between disorder and interaction in one-dimensional topological superconductors which carry localized Majorana zero-energy states. Using Abelian bosonization and the perturbative renormalization group (RG) approach,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 Alejandro M. Lobos , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We study two-terminal configurations in junctions between a topological superconducting wire with spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, and an ordinary conductor with an embedded quantum dot. One of the signatures of the Majorana zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-26 Leonel Gruñeiro , Miguel Alvarado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Liliana Arrachea

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana fermions, their role in topological quantum computation, and the possibility of realizing them in condensed matter systems, has attracted considerable attention. While there have been recent reports of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 David Nozadze , Nandini Trivedi

We consider theoretically the physics of bulk topological superconductivity accompanied by boundary non-Abelian Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid systems consisting of finite wires in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu

It was predicted by Tewari [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 027001 (2008)] that a teleportationlike electron transfer phenomenon is one of the novel consequences of the existence of Majorana fermion, because of the inherently nonlocal nature.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Peiyue Wang , Yunshan Cao , Ming Gong , Shu-Shen Li , Xin-Qi Li

Theoretical research suggests a emergence of the Majorana bound states at the ends of the nanowires. Experimental verifications of said concept has already been executed, e.g., in superconductor/semiconductor nanowire devices where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Aksel Kobiałka , Andrzej Ptok

We show that the boundary charge and spin can be used as alternative signatures of the topological phase transition in topological models such as semiconducting nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Marcel Serina , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja
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