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We consider a topological superconducting wire and use the string order parameter to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution of the topological order upon a quantum quench across the critical point. We also analyze the propagation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Minchul Lee , Seungju Han , Mahn-Soo Choi

Topological quantum computations can be implemented with local Majorana zero modes. To simplify manipulations, one can use Majorana edge states in gapped two-dimensional systems. Here we demonstrate how this approach can be used for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Igor Timoshuk , Yuriy Makhlin

The search for conditions supporting degenerate steady states in nonequilibrium topological superconductors is important for advancing dissipative quantum engineering, a field that has attracted significant research attention over the past…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 M. S. Shustin , S. V. Aksenov , I. S. Burmistrov

The interplay of topology and disorder in non-equilibrium quantum systems is an intriguing subject. Here, we look for a suitable platform that enables an in-depth exploration of the topic. To this end, We analyze the topological and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Koustav Roy , Shilpi Roy , Saurabh Basu

One-dimensional topological superconductors treated at the mean-field level host zero-energy edge Majorana modes, which encode topological degeneracy of their ground states. Geometric manipulations (braiding) of multiple wires can be used…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-19 Ivar Martin , Kartiek Agarwal

We investigate the problem of the superuniversality of the phase transition between different quantum Hall plateaus. We construct a set of models which give a qualitative description of this transition in a pure system of interacting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-15 Eduardo Fradkin , Steven Kivelson

Majorana zero modes (MZM-s) occurring at the edges of a 1D, p-wave, spinless superconductor, in absence of fluctuations of the phase of the superconducting order parameter, are quintessential examples of topologically-protected zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Ananda Roy , Johannes Hauschild , Frank Pollmann

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) realize a representation of non-abelian braid groups that enable topological quantum computation, wherein the storage and manipulation of information occur in decoherence-free degrees of freedom. This paper is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-17 Sihao Huang

We study the energy spectrum and transport property of a one-dimensional Kitaev quantum ring in a threading magnetic field. It is demonstrated that the magnetic field can effectively induce topological phase transitions for the ring in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

Nodal line in parameter space, at which the energy gap closes up, can either be the boundary separating two topological quantum phases or two conventional phases. We study the topological feature of nodal line in parameter space via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 R. Wang , C. Li , X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

A single unit cell contains all the information about the bulk system, including the topological feature. The topological invariant can be extracted from a finite system, which consists of several unit cells under certain environment, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Ci. Li , Liang. Jin , Zhi. Song

Topological states of matter are promising resources for composing fault-tolerant quantum computers, advancing beyond the limitations of current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. To enable this progress, a deep understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Takanori Sugimoto

The realization of Majorana zero modes is in the centre of intense theoretical and experimental investigations. Unfortunately, their exchange that can reveal their exotic statistics needs manipulations that are still beyond our experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Jin-Shi Xu , Kai Sun , Yong-Jian Han , Chuan-Feng Li , Jiannis K. Pachos , Guang-Can Guo

We study theoretically the topological quantum phase transition in Cavity QED lattice. We predict the condition for non-topological phase to the topological phase transition conditions for three different model Hamiltonians in cavity QED…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Chandan GN , N. Banerjee , Sujit Sarkar

We employ a time-dependent real-space local density-of-states method to study the movement and fusion of Majorana zero modes in the 1D interacting Kitaev model, based on the time evolution of many-body states. We analyze the dynamics and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-04 Bradraj Pandey , Narayan Mohanta , Elbio Dagotto

Very few topological systems with long-range couplings have been considered so far due to our lack of analytic approaches. Here we extend the Kitaev chain, a 1D quantum liquid, to infinite-range couplings and study its topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Kristian Patrick , Titus Neupert , Jiannis K. Pachos

The observation of Majorana fermions as collective excitations in condensed-matter systems is an ongoing quest, and several state-of-the-art experiments have been performed in the last decade. As a potential avenue in this direction, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-27 Adhip Pattanayak , Sumiran Pujari , Gopal Dixit

We study Majorana bound states in a disordered chain of semiconductor quantum dots proximity-coupled to an s-wave superconductor. By calculating its topological quantum number, based on the scattering-matrix method and a tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 P. Zhang , Franco Nori

In this paper, we investigate the non-Markovian quantum transport dynamics of a two-terminal Majorana device that is made of an asymmetric topological superconducting chain coupled to two leads. This asymmetric superconducting chain is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Wei-Min Zhang

A number of recent works have discussed the issue of spin polarization of a Majorana zero mode in condensed matter systems. Here we show that the spin polarization density of a Majorana zero mode, computed as an average of the spin operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari