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We study electrical, thermal and thermoelectric transport in a hybrid device consisting of a long-range Kitaev chain coupled to two metallic leads at two ends. Electrical and thermal currents are calculated in this device under both voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Averi Banerjee , Syeda Rafisa Rahaman , Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya

Kitaev chain is a theoretical model of a one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana zero modes at the two ends of the chain. With the goal of emulating this model, we build a chain of three quantum dots in a semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Hao Wu , Po Zhang , John P. T. Stenger , Zhaoen Su , Jun Chen , Ghada Badawy , Sasa Gazibegovic , Erik P. A. M. Bakkers , Sergey M. Frolov

The unambiguous identification of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) is one of the most outstanding problems of condensed matter physics. Thermal transport provides a detection tool that is sensitive to these chargeless quasiparticles. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Raffael L. Klees , Daniel Gresta , Jonathan Sturm , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

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

Sub-gap transport properties of a quantum dot (QD) coupled to two superconducting and one metallic leads are studied theoretically, solving the time-dependent equation of motion by the Laplace transform technique. We focus on time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 R. Taranko , T. Kwapinski , T. Domanski

We present a detailed study of the topological properties of the Kitaev chain with long-range pairing terms and in the presence of an Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper on-site potential. Specifically, we consider algebraically decaying superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Joana Fraxanet , Utso Bhattacharya , Tobias Grass , Debraj Rakshit , Maciej Lewenstein , Alexandre Dauphin

We theoretically explore the emergence of strong zero modes in a two-site chain consisting of two quantum dots coupled due to a central dot that mediates electron hopping and singlet superconducting pairing. In the presence of time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 A. Mert Bozkurt , Sebastian Miles , Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf , Chun-Xiao Liu , Fabian Hassler , Michael Wimmer

We study the low-energy transport properties of a hybrid device composed by a native quantum dot coupled to both ends of a topological superconducting nanowire section hosting Majorana zero-modes. The account of the coupling between the dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 L. S. Ricco , Y. Marques , J. E. Sanches , I. A. Shelykh , A. C. Seridonio

We study the Majorana modes, both equilibrium and Floquet, which can appear at the edges of the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice. We first present the analytical solutions known for the equilibrium Majorana edge modes for both zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Manisha Thakurathi , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

Understanding of charge transport mechanisms in nanoscale structures is essential for the development of molecular electronic devices. Charge transport through 1D molecular systems connected between two contacts is influenced by several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Daijiro Nozaki , Horacio M. Pastawski , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Distinguishing between topological Majorana zero modes and quasi Majorana modes -- trivial low energy Andreev bound states -- is an important step towards realizing topological hybrid nanowire devices. We propose that this distinction can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Gu Zhang , Christian Spånslätt

We study the effects of electron-electron interactions on the energy levels of GaAs quantum wires (QWs) using finite-bias spectroscopy. We probe the energy spectrum at zero magnetic field, and at crossings of opposite-spin-levels in high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-27 A. C. Graham , D. L. Sawkey , M. Pepper , M. Y. Simmons , D. A. Ritchie

Zero energy states in one dimensional SSH Kitaev hybrid systems have emerged as promising candidates for topological qubits. In our work, we show that introducing a domain wall into a chain with anisotropic superconducting correlations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Griffith Rufo , Sabrina Rufo , Heron Caldas , Rosiane de Freitas

Artificial Kitaev chains engineered from semiconducting quantum dots coupled by superconducting segments offer a promising route to realize and control Majorana bound states for topological quantum computation. We study a dimerized Kitaev…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Rafael Pineda Medina , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

We propose a three-terminal structure to probe robust signatures of Majorana zero modes. This structure consists of a quantum dot coupled to the normal metal, s-wave superconducting and Majorana Y-junction leads. The zero-bias differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Guan-Hao Feng , Hong-Hao Zhang

By calculating the differential tunneling conductance spectra from the two ends of a Majorana nanowire with a quantum dot embedded at one end, we establish that a careful examination of the nonlocal correlations of the zero bias conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-08 Yi-Hua Lai , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

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

Existing studies via shot noise calculation conclude that the cross correlation between the currents in the two leads connected by a pair of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) vanishes when their coupling energy $\epsilon_M\to 0$. Motivated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Lupei Qin , Wei Feng , Xin-Qi Li

Dynamic conductance and time-of-flight current instability in a quantum wire connected to electron reservoirs under DC bias voltage are studied in the absence of a gate screening the Coulomb interaction of electrons. Due to a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Bagun S. Shchamkhalova , Vladimir A. Sablikov

We investigate the conductance of a quantum wire with two embedded quantum dots using a T-matrix approach based on the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism. The quantum dots are represented by a quantum well with Gaussian shape and the wire is…