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Finding ways of creating, measuring and manipulating Majorana bound states (MBSs) in superconducting-semiconducting nanowires is a highly pursued goal in condensed matter physics. It was recently proposed that a periodic covering of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Samuel D. Escribano , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Yuval Oreg , Elsa Prada

Recent experimental advances in the field of cold atoms led to the development of novel techniques for producing synthetic dimensions and synthetic magnetic fields, thus greatly expanding the utility of cold atomic systems for exploring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-28 Or Golan , Eran Sela , Kirill Shtengel

Full-shell hybrid nanowires (NWs), structures comprising a superconductor shell that encapsulates a semiconductor (SM) core, have attracted considerable attention in the search for Majorana zero modes (MZMs). However, the predicted Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Andrea Vezzosi , Carlos Payá , Paweł Wójcik , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni , Elsa Prada , Samuel D. Escribano

The effects of geometry on the hosting of Majorana zero modes are explored in core-shell nanowires with a hexagonal core and a triangular shell, and vice versa. The energy interval separating electronic states localized in the corners from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 Kristjan Ottar Klausen , Anna Sitek , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu

One of the most promising platforms for one-dimensional topological superconductivity is based on semiconducting nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC), where s-wave superconductivity is induced by proximity effect and an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Jorge Cayao

We propose a route for pinning zero-field superconducting vortices in systems which are exchange-coupled to magnetic islands and feature Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider islands with sizes which greatly exceed those of the vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-16 Panagiotis Kotetes , Brian M. Andersen

The spin wave modes of cylindrical nanowires of moderate diameter-to-length ratio are investigated in this article. Based on three dimensional simulations and analytical calculations we determine the spatial structure of the modes. We show…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-17 Voicu O. Dolocan

We calculate the linear conductance of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG)-based junction between a normal semiconductor section and a hybrid semiconductor-superconductor section, under perpendicular magnetic field. We consider two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Llorenç Serra , Kaveh Delfanazari

Inspired by recent experimental discoveries of superconductivity in chirally-stacked and twisted multilayer graphene, we study models of $f$-wave superconductivity on the honeycomb lattice with arbitrary numbers of layers. These models…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-26 Võ Ti\'ên Phong , Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Eugene J. Mele , Francisco Guinea

Motivated by a recent experiment on superfluid 3He-A confined in narrow parallel plates using a rotating cryostat, we explore possible vortices stable under magnetic field applied to arbitrary angle relative to the plates in order to seek…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-15 Takuto Kawakami , Yasumasa Tsutsumi , Kazushige Machida

Tunneling experiment is a key technique for detecting Majorana fermion in solid state systems. We use Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function method to study multi-lead tunneling in superconducting nanowire with Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jia-Bin You , Xiao-Qiang Shao , Qing-Jun Tong , A. H. Chan , C. H. Oh , Vlatko Vedral

We consider core-shell nanowires with prismatic geometry contacted with two or more superconductors in the presence of a magnetic field applied parallel to the wire. In this geometry, the lowest energy states are localized on the outer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Tudor D. Stanescu , Anna Sitek , Andrei Manolescu

Here we present the theoretical clarification of possibility of eight Majorana-like modes (quasi-particles which are self-conjugate) close to the experimentally inaccessible Dirac points of a two-dimensional monolayer Dirac system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-23 Partha Goswami

The study of Majorana fermions is of great importance for the implementation of a quantum computer. These modes are topologically protected and very stable. It is now well known that a p-wave superconducting wire can sustain, in its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Fernanda Deus , Mucio A. Continentino , Heron Caldas

In condensed matter systems, zero-dimensional or one-dimensional Majorana modes can be realized respectively as the end and edge states of one-dimensional and two-dimensional topological superconductors. In this $\textit{top-down}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

In this paper, we investigate the edge Majorana modes in the simplest possible $p{}_{x}+ip_{y}$ superconductor defined on surfaces with different geometry - the annulus, the cylinder, the M\"obius band and a cone (by cone we mean a cone…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 A. Quelle , T. Kvorning , T. H. Hansson , C. Morais Smith

Motivated by recent experiments searching for Majorana fermions (MFs) in hybrid semiconducting-superconducting nanostructures, we consider a realistic tight-binding model and analyze its transport behavior numerically. In particular, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Diego Rainis , Luka Trifunovic , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The combination of a superconductor (SC) and a topological insulator (TI) nanowire was proposed as a potential candidate for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In this study, we adopt the Schr\"odinger-Poisson formalism to incorporate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Li Chen , Xiao-Hong Pan , Zhan Cao , Dong E. Liu , Xin Liu

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) structures represent one of the most promising platforms to realize, control and manipulate Majorana modes using scanning tunneling methods. By depositing either chains or islands of magnetic atoms on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Crawford , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to show such a topological state rely on proximity-induced…