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In this paper we study the finite-frequency current cross-correlations for a topological superconducting nanowire attached to two terminals at one of its ends. Using an analytic 1D model we show that the presence of a Majorana bound state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Stefano Valentini , Michele Governale , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

Based on the many-particle-number-state treatment for transport through a pair of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) which are coupled to the leads via two quantum dots, we identify that the reason for zero cross correlation of currents at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Wei Feng , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba coupling and in proximity of a superconductor hosts Majorana edge modes. An array of such nanowires with inter-wire coupling gives an approximate description of a two-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Deepti Rana , Goutam Sheet

We consider a hybrid system consisting of two normal metal leads weakly connected to a superconductor. Current-current correlations of the normal leads are studied in the tunneling limit at subgap voltages and temperatures. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Bignon , M. Houzet , F. Pistolesi , F. W. J. Hekking

Experimental evidence was recently obtained for topological superconductivity in spin-orbit coupled nano wires in a magnetic field, proximate to an s-wave superconductor. When only part of the wire contacts the superconductor, a localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-31 Ian Affleck , Domenico Giuliano

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle states localized at the boundaries of topological superconductors that are expected to be ideal building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Several observations of zero-bias conductance peaks…

Recent experimental efforts towards the detection of Majorana bound states have focused on creating the conditions for topological superconductivity. Here we demonstrate an alternative route, which achieves fully localised zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Pablo San-Jose , Jorge Cayao , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

By calculating the differential tunneling conductance spectra from the two ends of a Majorana nanowire with a quantum dot embedded at one end, we establish that a careful examination of the nonlocal correlations of the zero bias conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-08 Yi-Hua Lai , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

A one-dimensional semiconductor nanowire proximitized by a nearby superconductor may become a topological superconductor hosting localized Majorana zero modes at the two wire ends in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 F. Setiawan , Chun-Xiao Liu , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We compute various current correlation functions of electrons flowing from a topological nanowire to the tip of a superconducting scanning tunnel microscope and identify fingerprints of a Majorana bound state. In particular, the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 Pierre Devillard , Denis Chevallier , Mathias Albert

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

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 study the transport properties of a quantum dot-Majorana hybrid system, in which each of paired Majorana bound states is connected to one quantum dot. With the help of non-equilibrium Green's function method, we obtain an exact solution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hai-Feng Lu , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We have recently shown [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 89}, 165314 (2014)] that a non--interacting quantum dot coupled to a one--dimensional topological superconductor and to normal leads can sustain a Majorana mode even when the dot is expected to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , E. Vernek , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , J. C. Egues

We report on several low temperature experiments supporting the presence of Majorana fermions in superconducting lead nanowires fabricated with a scanning tunneling microscope. These nanowires are the connecting bridges between the STM tip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-12 J. G. Rodrigo , V. Crespo , H. Suderow , S. Vieira , F. Guinea

We establish that Majorana fermions on the boundary of topological superconductors have only spin-triplet superconducting correlations independent of whether the bulk superconducting gap is spin singlet or triplet. This is universal for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-05 Xin Liu , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling and coupled to a superconductor can be tuned by an external Zeeman field into a topological phase with Majorana zero modes. Here we theoretically investigate how this exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Annica Black-Schaffer , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada

The Josephson current flowing in a junction between two superconductors is a striking manifestation of macroscopic quantum coherence, with applications in metrology and quantum information. This equilibrium current is related with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We consider a two-dimensional monolayer MoS2-based Josephson junction which is composed by an intermediate semiconductor flake and the semi-infinite topological and non-topological superconductor leads and study its quantum transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Hamidreza Simchi

We calculate the differential conductance at a probe inserted in the weak link of a topological Josephson junction, consisting of a semiconducting nanowire deposited on top of two separated superconductors. Our aim is to understand how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefano Valentini , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei