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We show how a superconducting region (S) sandwiched between two normal leads (N), in the presence of barriers, can act as a lens for propagating electron and hole waves by virtue of the so- called crossed Andreev reflection (CAR). The CAR…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-23 Hosein Cheraghchi , Hanieh Esmailzadeh , Ali G. Moghaddam

We study transport in a voltage biased superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junction made of semiconducting nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling, as it transitions into a topological superconducting phase for increasing Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-02 Pablo San-Jose , Jorge Cayao , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

Recent studies propose Majorana polarization (MP) as a tool for identifying topological Majorana bound states (MBS). We analyze MP in two systems: a one-dimensional (1d) semiconducting nanowire and a quasi-1d system, both with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Shubhanshu Karoliya , Sumanta Tewari , Gargee Sharma

With the aid of the Keldysh technique we develop a microscopic theory of non-local electron transport in three-terminal NSN structures consisting of a chaotic superconducting quantum dot attached to one superconducting and two normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-06 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

We theoretically analyze non-local electron transport in multi-terminal normal-metal-superconductor-normal-metal (NSN) devices in the presence of an external ac voltage bias. Our analysis reveals a number of interesting effects, such as,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-06 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

We study theoretically the role of topological invariants to protect the Majorana fermions in a model of two-dimensional chiral superconductors which belong to class D of topological periodic table. A rich phase diagram is revealed. Each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Daichi Asahi , Naoto Nagaosa

We propose a novel heterostructure to achieve chiral topological superconductivity in 2D. A substrate with a large Rashba spin-orbit coupling energy is brought in proximity to a twisted bilayer of thin films exfoliated from a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-14 Gilad Margalit , Binghai Yan , Marcel Franz , Yuval Oreg

The comment (arXiv:2505.23490) fails to identify any scientific errors and its central arguments actually support the main conclusions of our publication [Nat. Phys. 21, 708 (2025)]. Firstly, the whole argument of the comment to try to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Junya Feng , Henry F. Legg , Mahasweta Bagchi , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja , Yoichi Ando

We study the topology and symmetry of surface Majorana arcs in superconductors with nonunitary "cyclic" pairing. Cyclic $p$-wave pairing may be realized in a cubic or tetrahedral crystal, while it is a candidate for the interior $^3P_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-12 Takeshi Mizushima , Muneto Nitta

We investigate the effect of the Majorana Fermions which are formed at the boundary of a p-wave superconductor. When the Majorana overlapping energy is finite we construct the scattering matrix $\mathbf{S}$ by maping the Majorana zero mode…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 D. Schmeltzer

The antiferromagnetic topological insulator (AFTI) is topologically protected by the combined time-reversal and translational symmetry $\mathcal{T}_c$. In this paper we investigate the effects of the $s$-wave superconducting pairings on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-26 Beibing Huang , Xiaosen Yang , Qinfang Zhang , Ning Xu

A one-dimensional boundary of a two-dimensional topological superconductor can host a number of topologically protected chiral modes. Combining two topological superconductors with different topological indices, it is possible to achieve a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Daniil S. Antonenko , Eslam Khalaf , Pavel M. Ostrovsky , Mikhail A. Skvortsov

It is known that the parity of reflection amplitude can either be even or odd under the mirror operation. Up to now, all the parities of reflection amplitude in the one-mode energy region are even under the mirror operation. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yanxia Xing , Jian Wang , Qing-feng Sun

Topological phases which host Majorana fermions can not be identified via local order parameters. We give simple nonlocal order parameters to distinguish quasi-one-dimensional (1D) topological superconductors of spinless fermions, for any…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-29 Yasaman Bahri , Ashvin Vishwanath

We study Andreev reflection at an interface between a half metal and a superconductor with spin-orbit interaction. While the absence of minority carriers in the half metal makes singlet Andreev reflection impossible, the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mathias Duckheim , Piet W. Brouwer

Trivial Andreev bound states arising from chemical potential variations could lead to zero-bias tunneling conductance peaks at finite magnetic fields in class $D$ nanowires, precisely mimicking the predicted zero-bias conductance peaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Chun-Xiao Liu , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

A theory of dispersionless Andreev bound states on surfaces of time-reversal invariant unconventional superconductors is presented. The generalized criterion for the dispersionless Andreev bound state is derived from the bulk-edge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka , Keiji Yada , Takehito Yokoyama

It is known that the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) supports a chiral Majorana edge mode at the interface between a superconductor and a magnetic insulator. The complexity of the materials combination is such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 C. W. J. Beenakker

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the Quantum Hall regime in the presence of a Zeeman field, with the Fermi level tuned to filling factor $\nu=1$. We show that, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling, contacting the 2DEG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Francesca Finocchiaro , Francisco Guinea , Pablo San-Jose

It was pointed out by Tewari and Sau that chiral symmetry (H -> -H if e <-> h) of the Hamiltonian of electron-hole (e-h) excitations in an N-mode superconducting wire is associated with a topological quantum number Q\in\mathbb{Z} (symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 M. Diez , J. P. Dahlhaus , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker