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We derive an exactly solvable one-dimensional (1D) spin model from the three-band Hubbard model with a strong spin-orbit coupling by introducing U(1) gauge fields to the isospin states. We find that it has a topological nontrivial phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Zhao-Yang Dong , Jian-Xin Li

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We propose a one-dimensional Hamiltonian $H_{1D}$ which supports Majorana fermions when $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$-wave superfluid appears in the ultracold atomic system and obtain the phase-separation diagrams both for the time-reversal-invariant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-06 Zhongbo Yan , Xiaosen Yang , Shaolong Wan

We examine theoretically the visualization of Majorana fermions in a two-dimensional trapped ultracold atomic Fermi gas with spin-orbit coupling. By increasing an external Zeeman field, the trapped gas transits from non-topological to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-24 Xia-Ji Liu , Lei Jiang , Han Pu , Hui Hu

Higher order topological superconductors hosting Majorana-Kramers pairs (MKPs) as corner modes have recently been proposed in a two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) proximity-coupled to unconventional cuprate or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Chuanchang Zeng , T. D. Stanescu , Chuanwei Zhang , V. W. Scarola , Sumanta Tewari

We study the Majorana bound states arising in quasi-one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman magnetic field. Using two different methods, first, the numerical diagonalization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Julien Despres , Ipsita Mandal , Cristina Bena

We discuss the robustness of Majorana edge modes in a finite quantum nanowire of cylindrical shape. The nanowire is modeled as a bidimensional cylindrical shell of semiconductor material with proximity-induced superconductivity and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Javier Osca , Rosa López , Llorenç Serra

We propose to study the lattice-symmetry protection of Majorana zero bound modes in topological crystalline superconductors (SCs). With an induced $s$-wave superconductivity in the $(001)$-surface of the topological crystalline insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-28 Xiong-Jun Liu , James J. He , K. T. Law

Recent experimental breakthrough in realizing spin-orbit (SO) coupling for cold atoms has spurred considerable interest in the physics of 2D SO coupled Fermi superfluids, especially topological Majorana fermions (MFs) which were predicted…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-09-25 Ming Gong , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia , Chuanwei Zhang

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems that have been proposed as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers [1]. They are expected to exhibit non-Abelian particle statistics, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 S. M. Albrecht , A. P. Higginbotham , M. Madsen , F. Kuemmeth , T. S. Jespersen , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

Majorana modes and fractional fermions are two types of edge zero modes appearing separately in topological superconductors and dimerized chains. Here we reveal how to harvest both types of edge modes simultaneously in an exotic chain. Such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-04 Dan-bo Zhang , Qiang-Hua Wang , Z. D. Wang

With the discovery of Majorana quasiparticles in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures, topologically protected qubits have emerged as a promising contender for quantum information processing. While the construction of a universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Alex Thomson , Falko Pientka

One of the cornerstones for topological quantum computations is the Majorana zero mode, which has been intensively searched in fractional quantum Hall systems and topological superconductors. Several recent works suggest that such an exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Rui-Xing Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

We demonstrate that Majorana fermions exist in edges of systems and in a vortex core even for superconductors with nodal excitations such as the d-wave pairing state under a particular but realistic condition in the case with an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-11 Masatoshi Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto

Robust edge states and non-Abelian excitations are the trademark of topological states of matter, with promising applications such as "topologically protected" quantum memory and computing. While so far topological phases have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Diehl , E. Rico , M. A. Baranov , P. Zoller

We show that Majorana edge modes appear in a strongly correlated phase of semiconducting nanowires with discrete rotational symmetry in the cross section. These modes exist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, magnetic fields and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Tommy Li , Michele Burrello , Karsten Flensberg

The Majorana fermion offers fascinating possibilities such as non-Abelian statistics and non-local robust qubits, and hunting it is one of the most important topics in current condensed matter physics. Most of the efforts have been focused…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Lina Johnsen Kamra , Bo Lu , Jacob Linder , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

Higher-order topological insulators are distinguished by the existence of topologically protected modes with codimension two or higher. Here, we report the manifestation of a second-order topological insulator in a two dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-03 Vatsal Dwivedi , Ciarán Hickey , Tim Eschmann , Simon Trebst

The oscillation of Majorana modes with near zero energy plays a very important role for ascertaining Majorana fermions. The edge states, which also have almost-zero-energy in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain (SSHc), have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Yang Zhang , Wei Nie , Yu-xi Liu

We introduce the concept of a Majorana molecule, a topological bound state appearing in the geometry of a double quantum dot (QD) structure flanking a topological superconducting nanowire. We demonstrate that, if the Majorana bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 J. E. Sanches , L. S. Ricco , W. N. Mizobata , Y. Marques , M. de Souza , I. A. Shelykh , A. C. Seridonio