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Among the major approaches that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-based platform has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits which store quantum information in a topologically-protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Karsten Flensberg , Felix von Oppen , Ady Stern

We investigate the dynamics of a charge qubit consisting of two Coulomb-blockaded islands hosting Majorana zero modes. The frequency of the qubit is determined by coherent single-electron tunneling between two islands originating from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Roman M. Lutchyn

We consider a quantum dot coupled to a topological superconductor and two normal leads and study transport properties of the system. Using Keldysh path-integral approach, we study current fluctuations (shot noise) within the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Dong E. Liu , Meng Cheng , Roman M. Lutchyn

We provide a current perspective on the rapidly developing field of Majorana zero modes in solid state systems. We emphasize the theoretical prediction, experimental realization, and potential use of Majorana zero modes in future…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-09 Sankar Das Sarma , Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak

We propose a platform for universal quantum computation that uses conventional $s$-wave superconducting leads to address a topological qubit stored in spatially separated Majorana bound states in a multi-terminal topological superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

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…

Tunneling experiment is a key technique for detecting Majorana fermion in solid state systems. We use Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function method to study multi-lead tunneling in superconducting nanowire with Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jia-Bin You , Xiao-Qiang Shao , Qing-Jun Tong , A. H. Chan , C. H. Oh , Vlatko Vedral

Robust zero bias transport anomalies in semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity have been convincingly demonstrated in various experiments. While these are compatible with the existence of Majorana zero modes at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado , Pablo San-Jose

Mesoscopic superconducting islands hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs), or Majorana islands in short, offer a prototype of topological qubits. In this work we investigate theoretically the model of a generic Majorana island tunneling-coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Jin-Xing Hou , Alex Westström , Rui Wang , Wen-Li Yang , Jian Li

Topological quantum computation using non-Abelian Majorana zero modes localized in proximitized semiconductor nanowires requires careful electrostatic control of wire-junctions so as to manipulate and braid the zero modes enabling anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sankar Das Sarma

A one-dimensional topological superconductor features a single fermionic zero mode that is delocalized over two Majorana bound states located at the ends of the system. We study a pair of spatially separated nanomechanical oscillators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Stefan Walter , Jan Carl Budich

We study Coulomb charging effects for transport through a topologically nontrivial superconducting wire, where Majorana bound states are present at the interface to normal-conducting leads. We construct the general Keldysh functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Zazunov , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

We analyze dynamical transport properties of a hybrid nanostructure, comprising a correlated quantum dot embedded between the source and drain electrodes, which are subject to an ac voltage, focusing on signatures imprinted on the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Tadeusz Domański , Ireneusz Weymann

A minimal model for the hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire Majorana platform is developed that fully captures the effects of the low-energy renormalization of the nanowire modes arising from the presence of the parent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sankar Das Sarma

We present an ab initio modeling framework to simulate Majorana transport in 2D semiconducting materials, paving the way for topological qubits based on 2D nanoribbons. By combining density-functional-theory and quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Y. Lee , T. Agarwal , M. Luisier

We study the properties of a quantum dot coupled to a one-dimensional topological superconductor and a normal lead and discuss the interplay between Kondo and Majorana-induced couplings in quantum dot. The latter appears due to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Meng Cheng , Michael Becker , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn

Electron transport through the T-shaped quantum-dot (QD) structure is theoretically investigated, by considering a Majorana zero mode coupled to the terminal QD. It is found that in the double-QD case, the presence of the Majorana zero mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Wei-Jiang Gong , Shu-Feng Zhang , Zhi-Chao Li , Guangyu Yi , Yi-Song Zheng

We explore the signatures of Majorana fermions in a nanowire based topological superconductor-quantum dot-topological superconductor hybrid device by charge transport measurements. The device is made from an epitaxially grown InSb nanowire…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-02 M. T. Deng , C. L. Yu , G. Y. Huang , M. Larsson , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

Quantum thermodynamics is a promising route to unambiguous detections of Majorana bound states. Being fundamentally different from quantum transport, this approach reveals unique Majorana thermodynamic behavior and deepens our insight into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Sergey Smirnov

As the condensed matter analog of Majorana fermion, the Majorana zero-mode is well known as a building block of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. This review focuses on the recent progress of Majorana experiments, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ji-Bang Fu , Bin Li , Xin-Fang Zhang , Guang-Zheng Yu , Guang-Yao Huang , Ming-Tang Deng