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Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

We study the stability of topological crystalline superconductors in the symmetry class DIIIR and in two-dimensional space when perturbed by quartic contact interactions. It is known that no less than eight copies of helical pairs of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-18 Ömer M. Aksoy , Jyong-Hao Chen , Shinsei Ryu , Akira Furusaki , Christopher Mudry

We discuss a (2+1) dimensional topological superconductor with $N_f$ left- and right-moving Majorana edge modes and a $\mathbb{Z}_2\times \mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry. In the absence of interactions, these phases are distinguished by an integral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Shinsei Ryu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We consider one-dimensional topological insulators hosting fractionally charged midgap states in the presence and absence of induced superconductivity pairing. Under the protection of a discrete symmetry, relating positive and negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Doru Sticlet , Luis Seabra , Frank Pollmann , Jérôme Cayssol

Nodal topological superconductors display zero-energy Majorana flat bands at generic edges. The flatness of these edge bands, which is protected by time-reversal and translation symmetry, gives rise to an extensive ground-state degeneracy.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 Johannes S. Hofmann , Fakher F. Assaad , Andreas P. Schnyder

We study the interplay between disorder and interaction in one-dimensional topological superconductors which carry localized Majorana zero-energy states. Using Abelian bosonization and the perturbative renormalization group (RG) approach,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 Alejandro M. Lobos , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We study the properties of one-dimensional topological superconductors under the influence of generic boundary conditions mimicking the coupling with external environments. We identify a general four-parameters classification of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 A. Maiellaro , F. Romeo , F. Illuminati

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

In this letter we present, in a number conserving framework, a model of interacting fermions in a two-wire geometry supporting non-local zero-energy Majorana-like edge excitations. The model has an exactly solvable line, on varying the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-12 Fernando Iemini , Leonardo Mazza , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Sebastian Diehl

Topological superconductivity is an exotic state of matter that supports Majorana zero-modes, which are surface modes in 3D, edge modes in 2D or localized end states in 1D. In the case of complete localization these Majorana modes obey…

We study a disordered superconducting nanowire, with broken time-reversal and spin-rotational symmetry, which can be driven into a topological phase with end Majorana bound states by an externally applied magnetic field. As a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

Contrary to the widespread belief that Majorana zero-energy modes, existing as bound edge states in 2D topological insulator (TI)-superconductor (SC) hybrid structures, are unaffected by non-magnetic static disorder by virtue of Anderson's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Hoi-Yin Hui , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We show the presence of Majorana edge modes in an interacting fermionic ladder with spin in a number conserved setting. The interchain single particle hopping is suppressed and only a pair hopping is present between the different chains of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-23 Franco T. Lisandrini , Corinna Kollath

We demonstrate that the one-dimensional helical Majorana edges of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors (class DIII) can become gapless and insulating by a combination of random edge velocity and interaction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-10 Yang-Zhi Chou , Rahul M. Nandkishore

In this chapter we review our work on the theory of quantum transport in topological insulator nanowires. We discuss both normal state properties and superconducting proximity effects, including the effects of magnetic fields and disorder.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 Jens H. Bardarson , Roni Ilan

We investigate the robustness of Majorana edge modes under disorder and interactions. We exploit a recently found mapping of the interacting Kitaev chain in the symmetric region ($\mu = 0$, $t = \Delta$) to free fermions. Extending the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Max McGinley , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Just like insulators can host topological Dirac states at their edges, superconductors can also exhibit topological phases characterized by Majorana edge states. Remarkable zero-energy states have been recently observed at the two ends of…

Nodal superconductors without inversion symmetry exhibit nontrivial topological properties, manifested by topologically protected flat-band edge states. Here we study the effects of breaking translational symmetry, crucial to the definition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-07 Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with line nodes are expected to possess topologically protected flat zero-energy bands of surface states, which can be described as Majorana modes. We here investigate their fate if residual interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 Janna E. Rückert , Gergő Roósz , Carsten Timm

We propose two experiments to probe the Majorana fermion edge states that occur at a junction between a superconductor and a magnet deposited on the surface of a topological insulator. Combining two Majorana fermions into a single Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane
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