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Topological superconductors represent one of the key hosts of Majorana-based topological quantum computing. Typical scenarios for one-dimensional topological superconductivity assume a broken gauge symmetry associated to a superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-07 V. Vadimov , T. Hyart , J. L. Lado , M. Möttönen , T. Ala-Nissila

Majorana bound states emerge in topological superconductors as zero-energy edge states exhibiting spatial nonlocality. Despite the enormous advances, the detection of Majorana bound states is still challenging mainly because topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Vimalesh Kumar Vimal , Jorge Cayao

The Majorana fermion, which is its own anti-particle and obeys non-abelian statistics, plays a critical role in topological quantum computing. It can be realized as a bound state at zero energy, called a Majorana zero mode (MZM), in the…

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We introduce and develop an approach to realizing a topological phase transition and non-Abelian statistics with dynamically induced Floquet Majorana Fermions (FMFs). When the periodic driving potential does not break fermion parity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Dong E. Liu , Alex Levchenko , Harold U. Baranger

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticles that hold promise as building blocks for topological quantum computing. However, the litmus test for their detection, the observation of exotic non-abelian statistics revealed by braiding, has so far…

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle-hole symmetric, and spatially-separated end modes which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pasquale Marra

The search for conditions supporting degenerate steady states in nonequilibrium topological superconductors is important for advancing dissipative quantum engineering, a field that has attracted significant research attention over the past…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 M. S. Shustin , S. V. Aksenov , I. S. Burmistrov

Theoretically, a pair of Majorana bound states in a topological superconductor forms a single fermionic level even at large separations, implying that the parity information is stored nonlocally. The nonlocality leads to a long-distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Zheng Shi , Piet W. Brouwer , Karsten Flensberg , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

Topological quantum computation using non-Abelian Majorana zero modes localized in proximitized semiconductor nanowires requires careful electrostatic control of wire-junctions so as to manipulate and braid the zero modes enabling anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sankar Das Sarma

Parafermion zero modes are exotic emergent excitations that can be considered as $\mathbb{Z}_n$ generalizations of Majorana fermions. Present in fractional quantum Hall-superconductor hybrid systems, among others, they can serve as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Noam Schiller , Eyal Cornfeld , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

We introduce a Hamiltonian coupling Majorana fermion degrees of freedom to a quantum dimer model. We argue that, in three dimensions, this model has deconfined quasiparticles supporting Majorana zero modes obeying nontrivial statistics. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael Freedman , Matthew B. Hastings , Chetan Nayak , Xiao-Liang Qi

In condensed matter physics, non-Abelian statistics for Majorana zero modes (or Majorana Fermions) is very important, really exotic, and completely robust. The race for searching Majorana zero modes and verifying the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Cui-Xian Guo , Meng-Lei Yang , Heng-Wang , Wu-Ming Liu , Su-Peng Kou

We present evidence for the existence of Majorana edge states in a number conserving theory describing a system of spinless fermions on two wires that are coupled by a pair hopping. Our analysis is based on the combination of a qualitative…

Electrons are indivisible elementary particles, yet paradoxically a collection of them can act as a fraction of a single electron, exhibiting exotic and useful properties. One such collective excitation, known as a topological Majorana…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Nikhil Harle , Oles Shtanko , Ramis Movassagh

We present a new scheme for Majorana modes in systems with nonsymmporhic-symmetry-protected band degeneracy. We reveal that when the gapless fermionic excitations are encoded with conventional superconductivity and magnetism, which can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhongyi Zhang , Zhenfei Wu , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Shengshan Qin

We study the sudden quench of a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor through its topological signature in the entanglement spectrum. The long-time evolution of the system and its topological characterization depend on a pseudomagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Ming-Chiang Chung , Yi-Hao Jhu , Pochung Chen , Chung-Yu Mou , Xin Wan

One-dimensional lattice with strong spin-orbit interactions (SOI) and Zeeman magnetic field is shown to lead to the formation of a helical charge-density wave (CDW) state near half-filling. Interplay of the magnetic field, SOI constants and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Nakhmedov , O. Alekperov

Parafermionic zero modes are fractional topologically protected quasiparticles expected to arise in various platforms. We show that Coulomb charging effects define a parafermion box with unique access options via fractional edge states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Kyrylo Snizhko , Reinhold Egger , Yuval Gefen