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We investigate a hybrid device consisting of two quantum dots placed between a BCS superconductor and a semiconductor with a strong spin-orbit interaction. Assuming charge tunneling between quantum dots through spin-flip processes, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Bogdan R. Bułka , Tadeusz Domański , Karol I. Wysokiński

We calculate analytically the spectrum of the Andreev bound states in a half-infinite superconducting wire with an arbitrary number of bands crossing the chemical potential. The normal state of the wire is assumed to have an antiunitary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 K. V. Samokhin

We show theoretically that in the generic finite chemical potential situation, the clean superconducting spin-orbit-coupled nanowire has two distinct nontopological regimes as a function of Zeeman splitting (below the topological quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Yingyi Huang , Haining Pan , Chun-Xiao Liu , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

Hybrid nanowires combining semiconductor and superconductor materials appear well suited for the creation, detection, and control of Majorana bound states (MBSs). We demonstrate the emergence of MBSs from coalescing Andreev bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 M. T. Deng , S. Vaitiekenas , E. B. Hansen , J. Danon , M. Leijnse , K. Flensberg , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

We calculate the differential conductance at a probe inserted in the weak link of a topological Josephson junction, consisting of a semiconducting nanowire deposited on top of two separated superconductors. Our aim is to understand how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefano Valentini , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

Surface Andreev bound states, including Majorana bound states in topological superconductors, are typically charge neutral. In this work, we demonstrate the emergence of unconventional charged Andreev bound states in a superconductor with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-09 Satoshi Ando , Shingo Kobayashi , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

This work systematically investigates the phase diagram of a parallel double-quantum-dot Andreev molecule, where the two quantum dots are coupled to a common superconducting lead. Using the numerical renormalization group method, we map out…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Peter Zalom , Kacper Wrześniewski , Tomáš Novotný , Ireneusz Weymann

Majorana and trivial Andreev bound states are predicted to appear in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems, but their identification is still a challenging task. Here we consider superconducting junctions with Rashba spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-09 Eslam Ahmed , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

The signatures of Majorana zero-energy mode leaking into a spin-charge entangled double quantum dot are investigated theoretically in the strong electron correlation regime. The considered setup consists of two capacitively coupled quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

We calculate the current as a function of applied voltage in non-topological s-wave superconductor-quantum dot-topological superconductor tunnel junction. We consider the type of TS which hosts two Majorana bound states (MBS) at the ends of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Anatoly Golub

We study the properties of a quantum dot coupled to a one-dimensional topological superconductor and a normal lead and discuss the interplay between Kondo and Majorana-induced couplings in quantum dot. The latter appears due to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Meng Cheng , Michael Becker , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn

We show that nonzero drag current in a double quantum-dot system, consisting of a biased drive dot and an unbiased passive dot coupled capacitively, can be generated by a Majorana bound state located at one of the leads connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xiao Xiao , Jian-Xin Zhu

We have studied the Kondo quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads and investigated the subgap Andreev states using the NRG method. Contrary to the recent NCA results [Clerk and Ambegaokar, Phys. Rev. B 61, 9109 (2000); Sellier et…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-24 Jong Soo Lim , Mahn-Soo Choi

We study the three terminal S-QD-S-QD-S Josephson junction biased with commensurate voltages. In the absence of an applied voltage, the Andreev bound states on each quantum dot hybridize forming an `Andreev molecule'. However, understanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Andriani Keliri , Benoît Douçot

We study a double quantum dot connected via a common superconducting lead and show that this system can be tuned to host one Majorana bound state (MBS) on each dot. We call them "poor man's Majorana bound states" since they are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

Recent experimental efforts towards the detection of Majorana bound states have focused on creating the conditions for topological superconductivity. Here we demonstrate an alternative route, which achieves fully localised zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Pablo San-Jose , Jorge Cayao , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

We investigate the low-energy theory of a one-dimensional finite capacitance topological Josephson junction. Charge fluctuations across the junction couple to resonant microwave fields and can be used to probe microscopic excitations such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Konstantin Yavilberg , Eran Ginossar , Eytan Grosfeld

Andreev bound states (ABSs) are studied in quantum dot coupled to conventional BCS superconducting leads on the basis of effective slave boson Hamiltonian in an infinite-U (Coulomb interaction) limit followed by Green's function technique.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Tanuj Chamoli , Ajay

We study an analytical model of a Rashba nanowire that is partially covered by and coupled to a thin superconducting layer, where the uncovered region of the nanowire forms a quantum dot. We find that, even if there is no topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Christopher Reeg , Olesia Dmytruk , Denis Chevallier , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We investigate the transport properties through a nanostructure composed of parallel double quantum dots coupled to two normal contacts. Additionally, each quantum dot is connected to a topological superconducting nanowire, hosting Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 A. P. Garrido , D. Zambrano , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , P. A. Orellana