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We construct a global Lindblad master equation for a Kitaev quantum wire of finite length, weakly coupled to an arbitrary number of thermal baths, within the Born-Markov and secular approximations. We find that the coupling of an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-22 Antonio D'Abbruzzo , Davide Rossini

Based on the recently found non-trivial topology of buckled antimonene, we propose the conceptual design of a quantized switch that is protected by topology and a mechanism to create configurable 1D wire channels. We show that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Santosh Kumar Radha , Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Topological characteristics of quantum systems are typically determined by the closing of a gap, while the dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) during quantum real-time evolution has emerged as a nonequilibrium analog to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Y. B. Shi , X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

We present the global topological phase diagram of a two-dimensional electron gas placed in a quantizing magnetic field and proximitized by a superconducting vortex lattice. Our theory allows for arbitrary ratios of the pairing amplitude,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Daniil S. Antonenko , Liang Fu , Leonid I. Glazman

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

We witness multipartite entanglement in the Kitaev chain -- a benchmark model of one dimensional topological insulator -- also with variable-range pairing, using the quantum Fisher information. Phases having a finite winding number, both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Luca Pezzè , Marco Gabbrielli , Luca Lepori , Augusto Smerzi

The intricate interplay between unitary evolution and projective measurements could induce entanglement phase transitions in the nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-particle systems. In this work, we uncover loss-induced entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Longwen Zhou

Non-Hermitian systems with $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry can possess purely real eigenvalue spectra. In this work two one-dimensional systems with two different topological phases, the topological nontrivial Phase (TNP) and the topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Marcel Klett , Holger Cartarius , Dennis Dast , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

We calculate the phase diagram of a model for topological superconducting wires with local s-wave pairing, spin-orbit coupling $\vec{\lambda}$ and magnetic field $\vec{B}$ with arbitrary orientations. This model is a generalized lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Diego Pérez Daroca , Armando A. Aligia

We gauge the fermion parity symmetry of the Kitaev chain. While the bulk of the model becomes an Ising chain of gauge-invariant spins in a tilted field, near the boundaries the global fermion parity symmetry survives gauging, leading to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-23 Umberto Borla , Ruben Verresen , Jeet Shah , Sergej Moroz

Topological electronic phases exist in a variety of naturally occurring materials but can also be created artificially. We used a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope to create dimerized chains of identical quantum dots on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Van Dong Pham , Yi Pan , Steven C. Erwin , Felix von Oppen , Kiyoshi Kanisawa , Stefan Fölsch

The topological properties of periodically driven many-body systems often have no static analogs and defy a simple description based on the effective Hamiltonian. To explore the emergent edge modes in driven p-wave superconductors in two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-19 Erhai Zhao

We study the effective low-energy fermionic theory of the Kondo-Kitaev model to leading order in the Kondo coupling. Our main goal is to understand the nature of the superconducting instability induced in the proximate metal due to its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Sondre Duna Lundemo , Asle Sudbø

We compute the disorder averaged dc conductance in the non-equilibrium steady state that sets in between a longer-range Kitaev chain and a metallic lead connected to an external reservoir, as a function of the system parameters and of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-28 Emmanuele G. Cinnirella , Andrea Nava , Domenico Giuliano

We investigate the stability of topological phases in doped Kitaev-Heisenberg ladders by studying the competition with itinerant electrons and the associated charge fluctuations in a Hubbard model on a honeycomb ribbon geometry. We analyze…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-22 M. G. Sousa , O. Ávalos-Ovando , E. Vernek , S. E. Ulloa

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 study electron transport at the edge of a generic disordered two-dimensional topological insulator, where some channels are topologically protected from backscattering. Assuming the total number of channels is large, we consider the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 E. Khalaf , M. A. Skvortsov , P. M. Ostrovsky

We examine quantum transport in periodic quantum graphs with a vertex coupling non-invariant with respect to time reversal. It is shown that the graph topology may play a decisive role in the conductivity properties illustrating this claim…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pavel Exner , Jiri Lipovsky

We investigate the quantum phases of higher-spin Kitaev models using tensor network methods. Our results reveal distinct bond-ordered phases for spin-1, spin-$\tfrac{3}{2}$, and spin-2 models. In all cases, we find translational symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 Xing-Yu Zhang , Qi Yang , Philippe Corboz , Jutho Haegeman , Yuchi He

A number of recent works have argued that quantum complexity, a well-known concept in computer science that has re-emerged recently in the context of the physics of black holes, may be used as an efficient probe of novel phenomena such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Pawel Caputa , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Sinong Liu , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl