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Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are bound midgap topological excitations at the ends of a 1D topological superconductor, which must come in pairs. If the two MZMs in the pair are sufficiently well-separated by a distance much larger than their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

What distinguishes trivial from topological superluids in interacting many-body systems where the number of particles is conserved? Building on a class of integrable pairing Hamiltonians, we present a number-conserving, interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Gerardo Ortiz , Jorge Dukelsky , Emilio Cobanera , Carlos Esebbag , Carlo Beenakker

We study the p-wave superconducting wire with a periodically modulated chemical potential and show that the Majorana edge states are robust against the periodic modulation. We find that the critical amplitude of modulated potential, at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-04 Li-Jun Lang , Shu Chen

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems are a key platform for custom-designed topological superconductors. Ideally, the ends of a one-dimensional MSH structure will host Majorana zero-modes (MZMs), the fundamental unit of topological…

The 1D Kitaev model in the topological phase, with open boundary conditions, hosts strong Majorana zero modes. These are fermion parity-odd operators that almost commute with the Hamiltonian and manifest in long coherence times for edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Loredana M. Vasiloiu , Apoorv Tiwari , Jens H. Bardarson

The importance of models with an exact solution for the study of materials with non-trivial topological properties has been extensively demonstrated. Among these, the Kitaev model of a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor plays a guiding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-10 T. O. Puel , P. D. Sacramento , M. A. Continentino

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 show that for closed finite sized systems with an odd number of real fermionic modes, even in the presence of interactions, there are always at least two fermionic operators that commute with the Hamiltonian.There is a zero mode…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Garry Goldstein , Claudio Chamon

The recent realization of pristine Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in vortices of iron-based superconductors (FeSCs) provides a promising platform for long-sought-after fault-tolerant quantum computation. A large topological gap between the MZMs…

It has recently been realized that zero modes with projective non-Abelian statistics, generalizing the notion of Majorana bound states, may exist at the interface between a superconductor and a ferromagnet along the edge of a fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Michele Burrello , Bernard van Heck , Emilio Cobanera

In quantum mechanics, the spaces of momentum and its conjugate, the position, are related via Fourier transforms and thus the properties are interwoven with their structure. In particular, for lattice systems possessing an underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Karen Rodríguez , Angélica Alejandra Pérez-Losada , Arturo Argüelles

The relation between band topology and Majorana zero energy modes (MZMs) in topological superconductors had been well studied in the past decades. However, the relation between the quantum metric and MZMs has yet to be understood. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-26 Xingyao Guo , Xinglei Ma , Xuzhe Ying , K. T. Law

Majorana fermions in a superconductor hybrid system are charge neutral zero-energy states. For the detection of this unique feature, we propose an interferometry of a chiral Majorana edge channel, formed along the interface between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sunghun Park , Joel E. Moore , H. -S. Sim

Majorana zero modes (MZM-s) occurring at the edges of a 1D, p-wave, spinless superconductor, in absence of fluctuations of the phase of the superconducting order parameter, are quintessential examples of topologically-protected zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Ananda Roy , Johannes Hauschild , Frank Pollmann

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are central to fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Planar Josephson junctions provide a particularly versatile platform for realizing robust topological superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-29 Richang Huang , Yongliang Hu , Xianzhang Chen , Peng Yu , Siwei Tan , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions in proximity to superconductors offer a route to engineering topological superconductivity due to the synthetic spin-orbit coupling engendered by the spin twist of the skyrmion texture. Previous theoretical works show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-11 Bastien Fajardo , T. Pereg-Barnea , Arun Paramekanti , Kartiek Agarwal

The aim of this Tutorial is to give a pedagogical introduction into realizations of Majorana fermions, usually termed as Majorana bound states (MBS), in condensed matter systems with magnetic textures. We begin by considering the Kitaev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Utkan Güngördü , Alexey A. Kovalev

The Hubbard chain and spinless fermion chain are paradigms of strongly correlated systems, very well understood using Bethe ansatz, Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) and field theory/renormalization group (RG) methods. They have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Armin Rahmani , Xiaoyu Zhu , Marcel Franz , Ian Affleck

A time-reversal invariant Kitaev-type model is introduced in which spins (Dirac matrices) on the square lattice interact via anisotropic nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor exchange interactions. The model is exactly solved by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-13 Ryota Nakai , Shinsei Ryu , Akira Furusaki

There has been experimental evidence for the Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in solid state systems, which are building blocks for potential topological quantum computing. It is important to design devices, in which MZMs are easy to manipulate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-20 Chuang Li , Xun-Jiang Luo , Li Chen , Dong E. Liu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Xin Liu