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We theoretically study the effect of orbital-dependent exchange field in the formation of second order topological superconductors. We demonstrate that changing the orbital difference can induce topological transition and the Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Bo Lu , Yiying Zhang

We investigate the emergence of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the two-dimensional electron gas formed at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (001) interface. Using a realistic multiband tight binding model that incorporates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Piotr Żeberek , Paweł Wójcik

We study the energy levels and transport properties of an extended Kitaev chain with a phase gradient. It is demonstrated that the hopping phase difference can effectively induce the generation of Majorana bound states, which are located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xuan Zhang , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-05 Kristian Løvås Svalland , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

Engineering chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in semiconductor structures offers fascinating ways to obtain and study Majorana modes in a condensed matter context. Here, we theoretically investigate chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

Quantum phase transitions are sudden changes in the ground-state wavefunction of a many-body system that can occur as a control parameter such as a concentration or a field strength is varied. They are driven purely by the competition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-21 Jun Jing , Mike Guidry , Lian-Ao Wu

We theoretically study topological superconductivity in elongated planar Josephson junctions. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling and an in-plane magnetic field, the Josephson junction can enter the topological phase and host zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 D. Kuiri , P. Wójcik , M. P. Nowak

The non-Abelian exchange statistics of Majorana zero modes make them interesting for both technological applications and fundamental research. Unlike their non-Abelian counterpart, the Abelian contribution, $e^{i\theta}$, where $\theta$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Stijn R. de Wit , Emre Duman , A. Mert Bozkurt , Alexander Brinkman , Inanc Adagideli

We investigate string correlations in an infinite-size spin-1/2 bond-alternating Heisenberg chain. By employing the infinite matrix product state representation with the infinite time evolving block decimation method, a finite string…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hai Tao Wang , Bo Li , Sam Young Cho

We analyse an exactly solvable spin-$1/2$ chain which is a generalised version of Kitaev's honeycomb model. We show that every state of the system has a $2^{N/4}$ fold degeneracy, where $N$ is the number of sites. We present analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Abhinav Saket , S. R. Hassan , R. Shankar

Electron transport through the T-shaped quantum-dot (QD) structure is theoretically investigated, by considering a Majorana zero mode coupled to the terminal QD. It is found that in the double-QD case, the presence of the Majorana zero mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Wei-Jiang Gong , Shu-Feng Zhang , Zhi-Chao Li , Guangyu Yi , Yi-Song Zheng

An exactly solvable Kitaev model in a two-dimensional square lattice exhibits a topological quantum phase transition which is different from the symmetry-breaking transition at zero temperature. When the ground state of a nonlinearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Leela Ganesh Chandra Lakkaraju , Sudip Kumar Haldar , Aditi Sen De

We study the response of classical impurities in quantum Ising chains. The Z2 degeneracy they entail renders the existence of two decoupled Majorana modes at zero energy an exact property of a finite system at arbitrary values of its bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 Markus Müller , Alexander A. Nersesyan

A new procedure of trial variational wave functional is proposed for investigating the mass renormailzation and the local structure of the ground state of a one-dimensional quantum sine-Gordon model with linear spatial modulation, whose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 Zhiguo Wang , Yumei Zhang

The interplay between a topological degeneracy and the residue degeneracy (also known as the residue entropy) of quantum criticality remains as an important but not thoroughly understood topic. We find that this topological degeneracy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Gu Zhang , Zhan Cao , Dong E. Liu

We introduce a density matrix-based network analysis to explore the ground state of the Kitaev chain, uncovering previously hidden structural and entanglement features. This approach successfully identifies the critical point associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Guillem Llodrà , Roberta Zambrini , Gian Luca Giorgi

Light-matter interaction plays a crucial role in modifying the properties of quantum materials. In this work, we investigate the effect of cavity induced photon fields on a topological superconductor hosting Majorana bound states (MBS). We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Aksel Kobiałka , Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Rodrigo Arouca , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Majorana zero modes in condensed matter systems have been the subject of much interest in recent years. Their non-Abelian exchange statistics, making them a unique state of matter, and their potential applications in topological quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

We study Kitaev model in one-dimension with open boundary condition by using exact analytic methods for non-interacting system at zero chemical potential as well as in the symmetric case of {\Delta} = t, and by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-15 Jian-Jian Miao , Hui-Ke Jin , Fu-Chun Zhang , Yi Zhou

Topological phases of matter that depend for their existence on interactions are fundamentally interesting and potentially useful as platforms for future quantum computers. Despite the multitude of theoretical proposals the only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 D. I. Pikulin , Ching-Kai Chiu , Xiaoyu Zhu , M. Franz