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Topological superconductors differ from topologically trivial ones for the presence of topologically protected zero-energy modes. To date, experimental evidence of topological superconductivity in nanostructures has been mainly obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Pasquale Marra , Roberta Citro , Alessandro Braggio

Kitaev chain is a one-dimensional spinless fermion model that has $p$-wave superconducting (SC) states and Majorana zero modes at the edge. Usually this model is analyzed by taking only SC order parameter (OP) into account, but the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-16 Kazuhiro Kuboki

We present a detailed study of the topological properties of the Kitaev chain with long-range pairing terms and in the presence of an Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper on-site potential. Specifically, we consider algebraically decaying superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Joana Fraxanet , Utso Bhattacharya , Tobias Grass , Debraj Rakshit , Maciej Lewenstein , Alexandre Dauphin

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

In recent experiments, time-dependent periodic fields are used to create exotic topological phases of matter with potential applications ranging from quantum transport to quantum computing. These nonequilibrium states, at high driving…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-28 Oles Shtanko , Ramis Movassagh

We introduce a new type of one-dimensional Kitaev chain with staggered $p$-wave superconducting pairing. We find three physical regimes in this model by tuning the $p$-wave pairing and the chemical potential of the system. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiao-Jue Zhang , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

Artificial Kitaev chains have emerged as a promising platform for realizing topological quantum computing. Once the chains are formed and the Majorana zero modes are braided/fused, reading out the parity of the chains is essential for…

Kitaev chain model with nearest neighbor interaction U is solved exactly at the symmetry point $\Delta=t$ and chemical potential $\mu=0$ in open boundary condition. By applying two Jordan-Wigner transformations and a spin-rotation, such a…

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

An attempt is made to quantum simulate the topological classification, such as winding number, geometric phase and symmetry properties for a quantum simulated Kitaev chain. We find, {\alpha} (ratio between the spin-orbit coupling and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-11 Y R Kartik , Ranjith R Kumar , S Rahul , Sujit Sarkar

We study the interacting dimerized Kitaev chain at the symmetry point $\Delta=t$ and the chemical potential $\mu=0$ under open boundary conditions, which can be exactly solved by applying two Jordan-Wigner transformations and a spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-03 Yucheng Wang , Jian-Jian Miao , Hui-Ke Jin , Shu Chen

We study the phase diagram of a disordered Kitaev chain with long-range pairing when connected to two metallic leads exchanging particles with external Lindblad baths. We (i) monitor the subgap modes at increasing disorder, (ii) compute the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-30 Emmanuele G. Cinnirella , Andrea Nava , Gabriele Campagnano , Domenico Giuliano

Contemporary quantum devices are reaching new limits in size and complexity, allowing for the experimental exploration of emergent quantum modes. However, this increased complexity introduces significant challenges in device tuning and…

The fidelity is widely used to detect quantum phase transitions, which is characterized by either a sharp change of fidelity or the divergence of fidelity susceptibility in the thermodynamical limit when the phase-driving parameter is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Yumeng Zeng , Bozhen Zhou , Shu Chen

This paper studies an extended Kitaev chain with three sublattices per unit cell. This extended version is obtained by hybridizing a modified Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model featuring trimerized unit cells with the standard Kitaev chain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Mohammad Ghuneim , Raditya Weda Bomantara

We systematically study a Kitaev chain with imbalanced pair creation and annihilation, which is introduced by non-Hermitian pairing terms. Exact phase diagram shows that the topological phase is still robust under the influence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 C. Li , X. Z. Zhang , G. Zhang , Z. Song

We investigate the distribution of fidelity zeros in two-band topological models by extending the phase transition driving parameter into the complex plane. Within the biorthogonal formulation, we unveil that fidelity zeros are related to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Siyan Lin , Zhen-Yu Zheng , Shu Chen

Using chiral decomposition, we are able to find analytically the zero modes and the conditions for such modes to exist in the Kitaev ladder model and superconducting nanowires with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. As a result, we are able…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Hsien-chung Kao

There are numerous methods to characterize topology and its boundary zero modes, yet their statistical mechanical properties have not received as much attention as other approaches. Here, we investigate the Fisher zeros and thermofield…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-03 Yuchen Meng , Yang Liu , Erhai Zhao , Haiyuan Zou

To clarify the relationship between edge electronic states in open-boundary crystalline systems and their corresponding bulk electronic structure, Alase et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076804 (2016)] have recently generalized Bloch's theorem…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-13 B. Hetényi , A. Lászlóffy , K. Penc , B. Újfalussy

The structure of entanglement in the ground state of the harmonic chain is studied. A class of two-mode squeezed states, useful for this purpose, is identified. The entanglement of the local modes at the ends of the chain, after tracing out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Andrew Steane , Haru Ishizaka