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Majorana 'zero-modes' are expected to be immune to decoherence. The primary method for their characterization in a 1D topological superconductor, is measuring the tunneling current into the edge of the superconductor. Presently, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Anna Grivnin , Ella Bor , Moty Heiblum , Yuval Oreg , Hadas Shtrikman

Experimental evidence for Majorana bound states largely relies on measurements of the tunneling conductance. While the conductance into a Majorana state is in principle quantized to $2e^2/h$, observation of this quantization has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Yang Peng , Falko Pientka , Yuval Vinkler-Aviv , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a quasi one dimensional ferromagnet-superconductor junction where the superconductor consists of mixed singlet and triplet pairings. We show that the relative orientation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Ganesh C. Paul , Arijit Saha , Sourin Das

Each end of a Kitaev chain in topological phase hosts a Majorana fermion. Zero bias conductance peak is an evidence of Majorana fermion when the two Majorana fermions are decoupled. These two Majorana fermions are separated in space and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Abhiram Soori

We calculate the zero-temperature differential conductance $dI/dV$ of a voltage-biased one-dimensional junction between a nontopological and a topological superconductor for arbitrary junction transparency using the scattering matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 F. Setiawan , William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

Recent experiments on planar superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor (S-TI-S) junctions, e.g., in Corbino geometry, have reported low-temperature nonzero Josephson currents in states with integer fluxoid (flux) induced in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Kiryl Piasotski , Omri Lesser , Adrian Reich , Pavel Ostrovsky , Eytan Grosfeld , Yuriy Makhlin , Yuval Oreg , Alexander Shnirman

Majorana zero modes (MZMs), fundamental building blocks for realizing topological quantum computers, can appear at the interface between a superconductor and a topological material. One of the experimental signatures that has been widely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 W. Yu , Rafael Haenel , M. A. Rodriguez , S. R. Lee , F. Zhang , M. Franz , D. I. Pikulin , W. Pan

The current-voltage ($IV$) characteristics beyond the linear response regime of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is systematically investigated. We find a clear negative correlation between the two coefficients to characterize the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Shuichi Iwakiri , Satoshi Sugimoto , Yasuhiro Niimi , Yusuke Kozuka , Yukiko K. Takahashi , Shinya Kasai , Kensuke Kobayashi

We propose an approach allowing the computation of currents and their correlations in interacting multiterminal mesoscopic systems involving quantum dots coupled to normal and/or superconducting leads. The formalism relies on the expression…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 J. Rech , D. Chevallier , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

We study the differential conductance for charge tunneling into a semiconductor wire--superconductor hybrid structure, which is actively investigated as a possible scheme for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 John Stenger , Tudor D. Stanescu

The unambiguous identification of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) is one of the most outstanding problems of condensed matter physics. Thermal transport provides a detection tool that is sensitive to these chargeless quasiparticles. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Raffael L. Klees , Daniel Gresta , Jonathan Sturm , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

One of the simplest proposed experimental probes of a Majorana bound-state is a quantized (2e^2/h) value of zero-bias tunneling conductance. When temperature is somewhat larger than the intrinsic width of the Majorana peak, conductance is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jie Liu , Andrew C. Potter , K. T. Law , Patrick A. Lee

One of the most promising proposals for engineering topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions employs a spin-orbit coupled nanowire subjected to a magnetic field and proximate to an s-wave superconductor. When only part of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 L. Fidkowski , J. Alicea , N. Lindner , R. M. Lutchyn , M. P. A. Fisher

A clear demonstration of topological superconductivity (TS) and Majorana zero modes remains one of the major pending goal in the field of topological materials. One common strategy to generate TS is through the coupling of an s-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 P. San-Jose , J. L. Lado , R. Aguado , F. Guinea , J. Fernández-Rossier

We propose an experimental setup for detecting a Majorana zero mode consisting of a spinless quantum dot coupled to the end of a p-wave superconducting nanowire. The Majorana bound state at the end of the wire strongly influences the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Dong E. Liu , Harold U. Baranger

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

Recent observations of a zero bias conductance peak in tunneling transport measurements in superconductor--semiconductor nanowire devices provide evidence for the predicted zero--energy Majorana modes, but not the conclusive proof for their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-09 S. Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu

We propose a scheme to detect the Majorana-zero-mode-induced crossed Andreev reflection by measuring tunneling current directly. In this scheme a metallic ring structure is utilized to separate electron and hole signals. Since tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Lei Fang , David Schmeltzer , Jian-Xin Zhu , Avadh Saxena

The Andreev transport through a quantum dot coupled to two external ferromagnetic leads and one superconducting lead is studied theoretically by means of the real-time diagrammatic technique in the sequential and cotunneling regimes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 I. Weymann , P. Trocha

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…