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In recent years, tools from quantum information theory have become indispensable in characterizing many-body systems. In this work, we employ measures of entanglement to study the interplay between disorder and the topological phase in 1D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Liron Levy , Moshe Goldstein

The inclusion of long-range couplings in the Kitaev chain is shown to modify the universal scaling of topological states close to the critical point. By means of the scattering approach, we prove that the Majorana states \textit{soften},…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Alessandro Tarantola , Nicolò Defenu

We study band modulations and topological transitions in a one-dimensional periodic bead-on-string chain. Using an exact transfer-matrix formulation of the wave equation with periodically modulated mass density, combined with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Haocong Pan , Wei Wang , Chunling Liu

We investigate the diagonal entropy for ground states of the extended Kitaev chains with extensive pairing and hopping terms. The systems contain rich topological phases equivalently represented by topological invariant winding numbers and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Hong Qiao , Zheng-Hang Sun , Feng-Xiao Sun , Liang-Zhu Mu , Qiongyi He , Heng Fan

We consider a helical spin liquid system which shows majorana fermion modes at the edge. The interaction between the quasiparticles in this system induces phase transition, Majorana-Ising transition. We comply the density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Dayasindhu Dey , Sudip Kumar Saha , P. Singha Deo , Manoranjan Kumar , Sujit Sarkar

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We theoretically study quantum transport through a quantum dot coupled to Majorana bound states confined at the ends of a topological superconducting nanowire. The topological superconductor forms a loop and is threaded by a tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Levente Máthé , Doru Sticlet , Liviu P. Zârbo

We suggest a way to overcome the obstacles that disorder and high density of states pose to the creation of unpaired Majorana fermions in one-dimensional systems. This is achieved by splitting the system into a chain of quantum dots, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Ion C. Fulga , Arbel Haim , Anton R. Akhmerov , Yuval Oreg

One-dimensional topological superconductors are known to host Majorana zero modes at domain walls terminating the topological phase. Their nonabelian nature allows for processing quantum information by braiding operations which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Torsten Karzig , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

We introduce a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with staggered imbalance in the $p$-wave superconducting pairing. By tuning the chemical potential and the pairing imbalance, we find that the eigenenergy spectrum undergoes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Jue Zhang , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

Superconducting wires without time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetries can be driven into a topological phase that supports Majorana bound states. Direct detection of these zero-energy states is complicated by the proliferation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , J. P. Dahlhaus , F. Hassler , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

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

One-dimensional topological phases can host localized zero-energy modes that enable high-fidelity storage and manipulation of quantum information. Majorana fermion chains support a classic example of such a phase, having zero modes that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 Adam S. Jermyn , Roger S. K. Mong , Jason Alicea , Paul Fendley

Numerical calculations for Majorana zero modes on a one-dimensional chain are performed using the technique of block diagonalization for general parameter settings. It is found that Majorana zero modes occur near the ends of the chain and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-20 Lei Chen , W. LiMing , Jia-Hui Huang

Majorana zero modes are well studied in the gapped phases of topological systems. We investigate Majorana zero modes at the topological quantum criticality in one dimensional topological superconducting model with longer range interaction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-15 S Rahul , Ranjith R Kumar , Y R Kartik , Sujit Sarkar

If a quantum dot is coupled to a topological superconductor via tunneling contacts, each contact hosts a Majorana zero mode in the limit of zero transmission. Close to a resonance and at a finite contact transparency, the resonant level in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Max Geier , Svend Krøjer , Felix von Oppen , Charles M. Marcus , Karsten Flensberg , Piet W. Brouwer

The effect of spatially modulated interaction on quantum phase transition in one-dimensional interacting spinless fermion system is theoretically investigated by exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group method. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-27 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Da-wei Kang , Liben Li

We review the physical phenomena that arise when quantum mechanical energy levels are modulated in time. The dynamics resulting from changes in the transition frequency is a problem studied since the early days of quantum mechanics. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 M. P. Silveri , J. A. Tuorila , E. V. Thuneberg , G. S. Paraoanu

Recent experiments have produced mounting evidence of Majorana zero modes in nanowire-superconductor hybrids. Signatures of an expected topological phase transition accompanying the onset of these modes nevertheless remain elusive. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Ryan V. Mishmash , David Aasen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Jason Alicea

In an attempt to theoretically investigate the quantum phase transition and criticality in topological models, we study Kitaev chain with longer-range couplings (finite number of neighbors) as well as truly long-range couplings (infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Y R Kartik , Ranjith R Kumar , S Rahul , Nilanjan Roy , Sujit Sarkar