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Interplay between superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field can lead to realisation of the topologically non--trivial states which in finite one dimensional nanowires are manifested by emergence of a pair of zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Aksel Kobiałka , Tadeusz Domański , Andrzej Ptok

We investigate a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian to understand the stability of spin-polarized transport of states with an arbitrary spin content in the presence of disorder. The general spin state is made to pass through a linear chain of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-12 Leonardo Benini , Amrita Mukherjee , Arunava Chakrabarti , Rudolf A. Roemer

Competition between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional and topological superconductivity. However, the experimental confirmation of the presence of Majorana edge states and unconventional pairing currently poses a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-03 Flavio Noronha , Askery Canabarro , Rafael Chaves , Rodrigo G. Pereira

Superconducting vortices are promising traps to confine non-Abelian Majorana quasi-particles. It has been widely believed that bulk-state topology, of either normal-state or superconducting ground-state wavefunctions, is crucial for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-13 Lun-Hui Hu , Rui-Xing Zhang

Recent experiments reported the puzzling zero energy modes associated with ferromagnetic impurities in some iron-based superconductors with topological band structures. Here, we show that the sufficiently strong exchange coupling between a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-15 Rui Song , Ping Zhang , Xian-Tu He , Ning Hao

We demonstrate that the selective equal spin Andreev reflection (SESAR) spectroscopy can be used in STM experiments to distinguish the zero-energy Majorana quasiparticles from the ordinary fermionic states of the Rashba chain. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 M. M. Maska , T. Domanski

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have been predicted to exist in the topological insulator (TI)/superconductor (SC) heterostructure. Recent spin polarized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) experiment$^{1}$ has observed spin-polarization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-02 Lun-Hui Hu , Chuang Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Yi Zhou , Fu-Chun Zhang

We here explore Majorana Fermion states in an s-wave superfluid of cold atoms in the presence of spin-orbital coupling and an additional harmonic potential. The superfluid boundary is induced by a harmonic trap. Two locally separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Tao Zhou , Z. D. Wang

To realize Majorana fermions having novel physical features has been developed as a key while difficult task in topological superconductor. Here we have proposed another platform to generate Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which is constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

We investigate the magnetic characteristics and tunnelling signatures of a planar Josephson junction with Rashba spin-orbit coupling during the fusion of two Majorana vortices. By employing the topological phase diagram and conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Krishnan Ganesh , Derek K. K. Lee , Jiannis K. Pachos

In this work we consider superconductor-semiconductor hybrids containing both trivial and Majorana zero modes and explore their signatures in the Majorana polarization. In particular, we consider trivial zero energy states due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Jorge Cayao

Superconducting proximity pairing in helical edge modes, such as those of topological insulators (TI), is predicted to provide a unique platform for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs). We use scanning tunneling microscopy measurements to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Berthold Jäck , Yonglong Xie , Jian Li , Sangjun Jeon , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

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

Majorana modes are zero-energy excitations of a topological superconductor that exhibit non-Abelian statistics. Following proposals for their detection in a semiconductor nanowire coupled to an s-wave superconductor, several tunneling…

The goal of creating topologically protected qubits using non-Abelian anyons is currently one of the most exciting areas of research in quantum condensed matter physics. Majorana zero modes (MZM), which are non-Abelian anyons predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Berthold Jäck , Yonglong Xie , Ali Yazdani

The transport behavior of a double quantum dot side-attached to a topological superconducting wire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes is studied theoretically in the strong correlation regime. It is shown that Majorana modes can leak to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-03 Ireneusz Weymann , Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Piotr Majek

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…

Topological stability is an important property for topological materials. However, the non-Hermitian effects may change this situation. Here, we investigate the robustness of edge states in the non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with imbalanced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-08 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou , Lin-Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

We present a novel controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes. The platform consists of a ferromagnetic metallic wire placed among conventional superconductors, which are in proximity to ferromagnetic insulators. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Giorgos Livanas , Nikolaos Vanas , Georgios Varelogiannis

Majorana and trivial Andreev bound states are predicted to appear in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems, but their identification is still a challenging task. Here we consider superconducting junctions with Rashba spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-09 Eslam Ahmed , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao