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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

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

This paper presents a unified perspective on the results of two recent works (C. Buragohain and S. Sachdev cond-mat/9811083 and S. Sachdev cond-mat/9810399) along with additional background. We describe the low frequency, non-zero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev

In this paper, we consider the decoherence patterns of a topological qubit made of two Majorana zero modes in the generic linear and circular motions in the Minkowski spacetime. We show that the reduced dynamics is exact without Markov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Pei-Hua Liu , Feng-Li Lin

Vortices in two-dimensional superconductors with broken time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetry can bind states at zero excitation energy. These socalled Majorana bound states transform a thermal insulator into a thermal metal and may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov , M. V. Medvedyeva , J. Tworzydło , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the dynamics and readout of topological qubits encoded by zero-energy Majorana bound states in a topological superconductor. We take into account bosonic modes due to the electromagnetic environment which couple the Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 Morten I. K. Munk , Reinhold Egger , Karsten Flensberg

Exotic topologically protected zero modes with parafermionic statistics (also called fractionalized Majorana modes) have been proposed to emerge in devices fabricated from a fractional quantum Hall system and a superconductor. The…

We study quantum entanglement in a system comprising two quantum dots interconnected through the short topological superconducting nanowire, which hosts overlapping boundary Majorana modes. Inspecting the fermionic negativity, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 C. Jasiukiewicz , A. Sinner , I. Weymann , T. Domański , L. Chotorlishvili

Prethermalization refers to the transient phenomenon where a system thermalizes according to a Hamiltonian that is not the generator of its evolution. We provide here a rigorous framework for quantum spin systems where prethermalization is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Dmitry Abanin , Wojciech De Roeck , Wen Wei Ho , Francois Huveneers

The interplay of quantum and thermal fluctuations in the vicinity of a quantum critical point characterizes the physics of strongly correlated systems. Here we investigate this interplay from a quantum information perspective presenting the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-30 Marco Gabbrielli , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

We show the presence of Majorana edge modes in an interacting fermionic ladder with spin in a number conserved setting. The interchain single particle hopping is suppressed and only a pair hopping is present between the different chains of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-23 Franco T. Lisandrini , Corinna Kollath

Majorana-based quantum computation seeks to encode information non-locally in pairs of Majorana zero modes, thereby isolating qubit states from a local noisy environment. In addition to long coherence times, the attractiveness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Christina Knapp , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Roman M. Lutchyn

Higher-order topological superfluids have gapped bulk and symmetry-protected Majorana zero modes with various localizations. Motivated by recent advances, we present a proposal for synthesizing multi-order topological superfluids that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-09 Yu-Biao Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Zhen Zheng , Xu-Bo Zou

In this work we address the problem of realizing a reliable quantum memory based on zero-energy Majorana modes in the presence of experimental constraints on the operations aimed at recovering the information. In particular, we characterize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Matteo Ippoliti , Matteo Rizzi , Vittorio Giovannetti , Leonardo Mazza

I analyze the emergence of Majorana zero modes (MZM) in a one dimensional ultracold fermionic system confined by an optical lattice inside a high-Q cavity. This forms a quantum optical lattice due to the cavity backaction, with emergent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-19 Santiago F. Caballero-Benitez

Majorana zero modes are fractional quantum excitations appearing in pairs, each pair being a building block for quantum computation . Some possible signatures of these excitations have been reported as zero bias peaks at endpoints of…

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle-hole symmetric, and spatially-separated end modes which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pasquale Marra

A topological measure characterizing symmetry-protected topological phases in one-dimensional open fermionic systems is proposed. It is built upon the kinematic approach to the geometric phase of mixed states and facilitates the extension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Da-Jian Zhang , Jiangbin Gong

Recent years saw the complete classification of topological band structures, revealing an abundance of topological crystalline insulators. Here we theoretically demonstrate the existence of topological materials beyond this framework,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Daniel Varjas , Alexander Lau , Kim Pöyhönen , Anton R. Akhmerov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Ion Cosma Fulga

We consider a one-dimensional, time-reversal-invariant system with attractive interactions and spin-orbit coupling. Such a system is gapless due to the strong quantum fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. However, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna Keselman , Erez Berg