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We propose a method to distinguish between trivial and topological, Majorana, zero-energy states in both short and long superconductor-normal-superconductor junctions based on Rashba nanowires using phase-biased equilibrium transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Lucas Baldo , Luis G. G. V. Dias Da Silva , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

We study charge transport through a topological superconductor with a pair of Majorana end states, coupled to leads via quantum dots with resonant levels. The non-locality of the Majorana bound states opens the possibility of crossed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Björn Zocher , Bernd Rosenow

We show that the topological Majorana modes in nanowires much longer than the superconducting coherence length are adiabatically connected with discrete zero-energy states generically occurring in short nanowires. We demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-27 Tudor D. Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

Theoretical studies have shown that Majorana bound states can be induced at the ends of a one dimensional wire, a phenomenon possible due to the interplay between s-wave superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling, and an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Andrzej Ptok

Majorana zero modes can appear at the wire ends of a 1D topological superconductor and manifest themselves as a quantized zero-bias conductance peak in the tunneling spectroscopy of normal-superconductor junctions. However, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Haining Pan , Chun-Xiao Liu , Michael Wimmer , Sankar Das Sarma

We investigate gradual development of the quasiparticle states in two quantum dots attached to opposite sides of the topological superconducting nanowire, hosting the boundary modes. Specifically, we explore the non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 R. Taranko , K. Wrześniewski , I. Weymann , T. Domański

Motivated by the recent advances in studying Majorana states in nanowires under conditions of superconducting proximity effect, we address the correspondence between the common topological transition in infinite system and the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Dmitry I. Pikulin , Yuli V. Nazarov

A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chaitanya Murthy , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

We consider the problem of bound states in strongly anisotropic ferromagnetic impurities in a superconductor, motivated by recent experiments that claim to observe Majorana modes at the ends of ferromagnetic wires on a superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-22 Jay D. Sau , P. M. R. Brydon

The helical electron states on the surface of topological insulators or elemental Bismuth become unstable toward superconducting pairing formation when coupled to the charge or magnetic fluctuations. The latter gives rise to pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-23 Hossein Hosseinabadi , Mehdi Kargarian

We study time-resolved charge transport in a superconducting nanowire using time-dependent Landauer-B{\"u}ttiker theory. We find that the steady-state Majorana zero-bias conductance peak emerges transiently accompanied by characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Riku Tuovinen , Enrico Perfetto , Robert van Leeuwen , Gianluca Stefanucci , Michael A. Sentef

End-to-end correlated bound states are investigated in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid nanowires at zero magnetic field. Peaks in subgap conductance are independently identified from each wire end, and a cross-correlation function is…

We investigate electron transport through multiterminal networks hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) in the framework of full counting statistics (FCS). In particular, we apply our general results to T-shaped junctions of two Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Luzie Weithofer , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

We calculate analytically the spectrum of the Andreev bound states in a half-infinite superconducting wire with an arbitrary number of bands crossing the chemical potential. The normal state of the wire is assumed to have an antiunitary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 K. V. Samokhin

The nonlocal nature of the fermionic mode spanned by a pair of Majorana bound states in a one-dimensional topological superconductor has inspired many proposals aiming at demonstrating this property in transport. In particular, transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Jascha Ulrich , Fabian Hassler

We present a theoretical analysis of the equilibrium Josephson current-phase relation in hybrid devices made of conventional s-wave spin-singlet superconductors (S) and topological superconductor (TS) wires featuring Majorana end states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 A. Zazunov , A. Iks , M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

We consider theoretically tunneling characteristic of a junction between a normal metal and a chain of coupled Majorana bound states generated at crossings between topological and non-topological superconducting sections, as a result of,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Karsten Flensberg

Finite-length one-dimensional topological superconductor wires host localized Majorana zero modes at their ends. In realistic models, these appear only after a topological quantum critical point is crossed by external tuning of parameters.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We consider a single-level quantum dot tunnel-coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead. We employ a diagrammatic real-time approach to calculate the finite-frequency current noise for subgap transport. The noise spectrum gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Stephanie Droste , Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale

We theoretically study transport properties of nanowires with the Dresselhaus [110] spin-orbit coupling under the in-plane Zeeman potential and the proximity-induced s-wave pair potential. In the topologically nontrivial phase, the nanowire…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-15 Satoshi Ikegaya , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka