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We theoretically investigate the possibility to use thermolectric measurements to detect Majorana bound states and to investigate their coupling to a dissipative environment. The particle-hole symmetry of Majorana states would normally lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Martin Leijnse

By considering Majorana zero modes to laterally couple to the quantum dot, we evaluate the thermoelectric effect in one single-dot system. The calculation results show that if one Majorana zero mode couples to the dot, the thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Xiao-Qi Wang , Shu-Feng Zhang , Hu Han , Guang-Yu Yi , Wei-Jiang Gong

We investigate theoretically the thermoelectric transport properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot side-coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. The calculations are performed using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Piotr Majek , Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Ireneusz Weymann

We present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of a double quantum dot system coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire and ferromagnetic leads. The study focuses on the behavior of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

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 propose an experimental setup for detecting a Majorana zero mode consisting of a spinless quantum dot coupled to the end of a p-wave superconducting nanowire. The Majorana bound state at the end of the wire strongly influences the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Dong E. Liu , Harold U. Baranger

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 study the thermoelectric transport through a single-level quantum dot (QD) coupled to two normal metallic leads and side-coupled to Majorana bound state (MBS). The Coulomb interaction in QD is considered. To investigate only the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Chol Won Ri , Kum Hyok Jong , Song Jin Im , Hak Chol Pak

Quantum thermodynamics is a promising route to unambiguous detections of Majorana bound states. Being fundamentally different from quantum transport, this approach reveals unique Majorana thermodynamic behavior and deepens our insight into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Sergey Smirnov

In this study, we examine the thermoelectric characteristics of a system consisting of two topological superconducting nanowires, each exhibiting Majorana zero modes at their ends, connected to leads within an interferometer configuration.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Alejandro P. Garrido , David Zambrano , Juan Pablo ramos , Pedro Orellana

We study a hybrid structure, comprising the single-level quantum dot attached to the topological superconducting nanowire, inspecting dynamical transfer of the Majorana quasiparticle onto normal region. Motivated by the recent experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 J. Baranski , M. Baranska , T. Zienkiewicz , R. Taranko , T. Domanski

We consider transport properties of a hybrid device composed by a quantum dot placed between normal and superconducting reservoirs, and coupled to a Majorana nanowire: a topological superconducting segment hosting Majorana zero-modes at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-03 L. S. Ricco , J. E. Sanches , Y. Marques , M. de Souza , M. S. Figueira , I. A. Shelykh , A. C. Seridonio

A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chaitanya Murthy , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

The Majorana fermion offers fascinating possibilities such as non-Abelian statistics and non-local robust qubits, and hunting it is one of the most important topics in current condensed matter physics. Most of the efforts have been focused…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Bo Lu , Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

The transport behavior of a double quantum dot side-attached to a topological superconducting wire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes is studied theoretically in the strong correlation regime. It is shown that Majorana modes can leak to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-03 Ireneusz Weymann , Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Piotr Majek

We study quantum entanglement in a system comprising two quantum dots interconnected through the short topological superconducting nanowire, which hosts overlapping boundary Majorana modes. Inspecting the fermionic negativity, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 C. Jasiukiewicz , A. Sinner , I. Weymann , T. Domański , L. Chotorlishvili

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

Majorana fermions are particles identical to their own antiparticles. They have been theoretically predicted to exist in topological superconductors. We report electrical measurements on InSb nanowires contacted with one normal (Au) and one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 V. Mourik , K. Zuo , S. M. Frolov , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

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…

Nonequilibrium states produced by electric and thermal voltages ($V$, $V_T$) provide a straightforward insight into underlying degrees of freedom of composite nanostructures and are of particular interest to probe Majorana bound states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Sergey Smirnov
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