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We investigate the topological phases in a coupled one-dimensional p-wave superconducting Fibonacci quasicrystal modeled by the quasiperiodic Kitaev chain. Recent studies have shown that the coupled system can host topological edge modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Koki Mizuno

Quasicrystalline order induces a fractal energy spectrum, yet its impact on topological protection remains an open fundamental question. Here, we demonstrate that the topological phase transitions characterised by the appearance of Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 William Caiger , Felix Flicker , Miguel-Ángel Sánchez-Martínez

We introduce a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with staggered imbalance in the $p$-wave superconducting pairing. By tuning the chemical potential and the pairing imbalance, we find that the eigenenergy spectrum undergoes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Jue Zhang , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

By using the variational matrix product state method, we numerically study the interacting Kitaev chain with spatially varying periodic and quasi-periodic potentials and the latter follows the Fibonacci sequence. The edge correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-04 Weijie Huang , Yao Yao

We aim to study a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor with quasiperiodic on-site potentials. A modified real-space-Pfaffian method is applied to calculate the topological invariants. We confirm that the Majorana zero mode is protected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-20 Shujie Cheng , Yufei Zhu , Gao Xianlong , Tong Liu

We propose a simple model consisting of a magnetic domain wall proximity-coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor for realization of Majorana zero-energy modes. A spin-dependent gauge transformation translates the rotating magnetic profile…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-24 Babak Zare Rameshti , Yaser Hajati , Imam Makhfudz

We study a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor subject to non-Hermitian quasiperiodic potentials. Although the existence of the non-Hermiticity, the Majorana zero mode is still robust against the disorder perturbation. The analytic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-24 Tong Liu , Shujie Cheng , Hao Guo , Gao Xianlong

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 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

One-dimensional Floquet topological superconductors possess two types of degenerate Majorana edge modes at zero and $\pi$ quasieneriges, leaving more room for the design of boundary time crystals and quantum computing schemes than their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Hailing Wu , Shenlin Wu , Longwen Zhou

The interplay of topology and disorder in non-equilibrium quantum systems is an intriguing subject. Here, we look for a suitable platform that enables an in-depth exploration of the topic. To this end, We analyze the topological and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Koustav Roy , Shilpi Roy , Saurabh Basu

Time-quasiperiodic Majoranas are generalizations of Floquet Majoranas in time-quasiperiodic superconducting systems. We show that in a system driven at $d$ mutually irrational frequencies, there are up to $2^d$ types of such Majoranas,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Yang Peng , Gil Refael

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 study the static and dynamical properties of a long-range Kitaev chain, i.e., a $p$-wave superconducting chain in which the superconducting pairing decays algebraically as $1/l^{\alpha}$, where $l$ is the distance between the two sites…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Utso Bhattacharya , Somnath Maity , Amit Dutta , Diptiman Sen

Engineering chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in semiconductor structures offers fascinating ways to obtain and study Majorana modes in a condensed matter context. Here, we theoretically investigate chiral $p$-wave superconductivity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

We explore the salient features of the `Kitaev ladder', a two-legged ladder version of the spin-1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, by mapping it to a one-dimensional fermionic p-wave superconducting system. We examine the connections…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Wade DeGottardi , Diptiman Sen , Smitha Vishveshwara

Spatial profile of the Majorana fermion wave function in a one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductors ($\cal{PWS}$) with quasi periodic disorder is shown to exhibit spatial oscillations. These oscillations damp out in the interior of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-26 Indubala I Satija

Floquet Majorana edge modes capture the topological features of periodically driven superconductors. We present a Kitaev chain with multiple time periodic driving and demonstrate how the avoidance of bands crossing is altered, which gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Huan-Yu Wang , Lin Zhuang , W. M. Liu

One of the problems concerning topological phases in solid-state systems which still remains urgent is an issue of many-body effects. In this study we address it within perturbative theory framework by considering topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 M. S. Shustin , S. V. Aksenov , I. S. Burmistrov

The topological characteristics of the $p$-wave Kitaev chains on a square lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor inter-chains hopping and pairing are investigated. Besides gapless exact zero-energy modes, this model…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-08 S. Srinidhi , Aayushi Agrawal , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay
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