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Topological Quantum Computing has largely evolved towards a paradigm of manipulating edge localized Majorana within $p$-wave topological superconducting nanowires. To bridge the gap between physical qubit systems and quantum algorithms, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Adrian D. Scheppe , Michael V. Pak

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

We study a two-band model of fermions in a 1d chain with an antisymmetric hybridization that breaks inversion symmetry. We find that for certain values of its parameters, the $sp$-chain maps formally into a $p$-wave superconducting chain,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Mucio A. Continentino , Heron Caldas , David Nozadze , Nandini Trivedi

The signatures of Majorana zero-energy mode leaking into a spin-charge entangled double quantum dot are investigated theoretically in the strong electron correlation regime. The considered setup consists of two capacitively coupled quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

We perform simulations for transport and nontrivial fusion of Majorana zero modes in topological superconducting quantum wires. We uncover interesting behaviors of nonadiabatic transition associated with the transport through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Qiongyao Wang , Jing Bai , Luting Xu , Wei Feng , Xin-Qi Li

We prove that quantum information encoded in some topological excitations, including certain Majorana zero modes, is protected in closed systems for a time scale exponentially long in system parameters. This protection holds even at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-20 Dominic V. Else , Paul Fendley , Jack Kemp , Chetan Nayak

Certain types of topological superconductors and superfluids are known to host protected Majorana zero modes in cores of Abrikosov vortices. When such vortices are arranged in a dense periodic lattice one expects zero modes from neighboring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 Tianyu Liu , M. Franz

A spin-orbit coupled quantum wire, with one end proximate to an s-wave superconductor, can become a topological superconductor, with a Majorana mode localized at each end of the superconducting region. It was recently shown that coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-26 Yashar Komijani , Ian Affleck

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

Exact solutions for non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems are rare but may provide valuable insights into the interplay between Hermitian and non-Hermitian components. We report our investigation of a non-Hermitian variant of a p-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Y. B. Shi , Z. Song

The one-dimensional (1D) $J_1-J_2$ quantum spin model can be viewed as a strong-coupling analogue of the Schrieffer-Su-Heeger model with two inequivalent alternating Ising couplings along the wire, associated to the physics of resonating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Karyn Le Hur , Fan Yang , Magali Korolev

The one-dimensional p-wave topological superconductor model with open-boundary conditions is examined in its topological phase. Using the eigenbasis of the non-interacting system I show that, provided the interactions are local and do not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 G. Kells

The boundary of topological superconductors might lead to the appearance of Majorana edge modes, whose non-trivial exchange statistics can be used for topological quantum computing. In branched nanowire networks one can exchange Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 C. Tutschku , R. W. Reinthaler , C. Lei , A. H. MacDonald , E. M. Hankiewicz

Spatial profile of the Majorana fermion wave function in a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductors ($\cal{PWS}$) with quasi periodic disorder is shown to exhibit spatial oscillations. These oscillations damp out in the interior of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-26 Indubala I Satija

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

One Majorana doublet can be realized at each end of the time-reversal-invariant Majorana nanowires. We investigate the Josephson effect in the Majorana-doublet-presented junction modified by different inter-doublet coupling manners. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Wei-Jiang Gong , Zhen Gao , Wan-Fei Shan , Guang-Yu Yi

We propose a setup to measure the lifetime of the parity of a pair of Majorana bound states. The proposed experiment has one edge Majorana state tunnel coupled to a quantum dot, which in turn is coupled to a metallic electrode. When the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

We consider a model of a Josephson junction of two topological superconducting wires mediated by an interacting quantum dot. An additional normal electrode coupled to the dot from the top allows to probe its density of states. The Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Piotr Stefański

We study one-component fermions in chain lattices with proximity-induced superconducting gap and interparticle short-range interaction, capable of hosting Majorana fermions. By systematically tracking various physical quantities, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-22 Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Kuei Sun

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor. We show that when odd number of subbands are occupied the system realizes non-trivial topological state supporting Majorana modes localized at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-31 Roman M. Lutchyn , Tudor Stanescu , S. Das Sarma
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