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Motivated by recent experiments we consider transport across an interacting magnetic impurity coupled to the Majorana zero mode (MZM) observed at the boundary of a topological superconductor (SC). In the presence of a finite tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Daniele Guerci , Andrea Nava

We theoretically study transport properties of voltage-biased one-dimensional superconductor--normal metal--superconductor tunnel junctions with arbitrary junction transparency where the superconductors can have trivial or nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 F. Setiawan , William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We study charge transport of a topological superconductor connected to different electromagnetic environments using a low-energy description where only the Majorana bound states in the superconductor are included. Extending earlier findings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Konrad Wölms , Karsten Flensberg

In the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetic field can drive a proximitized nanowire into a topological superconducting phase. We study transport properties of such nanowires in the Coulomb blockade regime. The associated with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-09 Roman M. Lutchyn , Leonid I. Glazman

We study transport through a Coulomb blockaded topologically nontrivial superconducting wire (with Majorana end states) contacted by metallic leads. An exact formula for the current through this interacting Majorana single-charge transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Hützen , A. Zazunov , B. Braunecker , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

Detecting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in topological superconductors remains challenging, as localized non-topological states can mimic MZM signatures. Here, we propose electron interferometry by non-local transport measurements as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Nadav Drechsler , Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

Electron transport through [normal metal]-[quantum dot]-[topological superconductor] junction is studied and reveals interlacing physics of Kondo correlations with two Majorana fermions bound state residing on the opposite edges of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Anatoly Golub , Igor Kuzmenko , Yshai Avishai

We calculate the linear conductance of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG)-based junction between a normal semiconductor section and a hybrid semiconductor-superconductor section, under perpendicular magnetic field. We consider two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Llorenç Serra , Kaveh Delfanazari

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba coupling and in proximity of a superconductor hosts Majorana edge modes. An array of such nanowires with inter-wire coupling gives an approximate description of a two-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Deepti Rana , Goutam Sheet

We theoretically investigate electronic transport through a junction where a quantum dot (QD) is tunnel coupled on both sides to semiconductor nanowires with strong spin-orbit interaction and proximity-induced superconductivity. The results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-09 Guang-Yao Huang , Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg , Hongqi Xu

Topological phases of matter are among the most intriguing research directions in Condensed Matter Physics. It is known that superconductivity induced on a topological insulator's surface can lead to exotic Majorana modes, the main…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-20 J. Herbrych , M. Środa , G. Alvarez , M. Mierzejewski , E. Dagotto

We study spin-dependent transport through ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet double tunnel junctions in the mesoscopic Coulomb blockade regime. A general transport equation allows us to calculate the conductance in the absence or presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gonzalo Usaj , Harold. U. Baranger

We determine the zero-bias anomaly of the conductance of tunnel junctions by an approach unifying the conventional Coulomb blockade theory for ultrasmall junctions with the diffusive anomalies in disordered conductors. Both,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joerg Rollbuehler , Hermann Grabert

Using a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy, we report the observation of topologically nontrivial superconductivity on a single material of \beta-Bi2Pd films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The superconducting gap associated with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-20 Yan-Feng Lv , Wen-Lin Wang , Yi-Min Zhang , Hao Ding , Wei Li , Lili Wang , Ke He , Can-Li Song , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue

In the presence of an applied magnetic field introducing Zeeman spin splitting, a superconducting (SC) proximitized one-dimensional (1D) nanowire with spin-orbit coupling can pass through a topological quantum phase transition developing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-07 Ching-Kai Chiu , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

In this paper, we investigate the non-Markovian quantum transport dynamics of a two-terminal Majorana device that is made of an asymmetric topological superconducting chain coupled to two leads. This asymmetric superconducting chain is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Wei-Min Zhang

We investigate persistent currents in metallic rings interrupted by a Coulomb blockaded topological superconducting segment. We show that the presence of Majorana bound states in the superconductor is reflected in the emergence of an h/e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Philippe Jacquod , Markus Buttiker

We investigate the Majorana fermions in a semiconductor nanostructure with two wires connected through a ring. The nanostructure is mirror symmetric and in the proximity of a superconductor. The Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 B. Y. Sun , M. W. Wu

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

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