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Semiconductor nanowires have opened new research avenues in quantum transport owing to their confined geometry and electrostatic tunability. They have offered an exceptional testbed for superconductivity, leading to the realization of…

The possibility to engineer artificial Kitaev chains in arrays of quantum dots coupled via narrow superconducting regions has emerged as an attractive way to overcome the disorder issues that complicate the realization and detection of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Athanasios Tsintzis , Rubén Seoane Souto , Karsten Flensberg , Jeroen Danon , Martin Leijnse

Realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the laboratory is one of the major goals in condensed matter physics. We review the current status of this rapidly-developing field, focusing on semiconductor-superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-11 R. M. Lutchyn , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus , Y. Oreg

Obeying non-Abelian statistics, Majorana fermions holds a promise to implement fault-tolerant quantum computing. It was found that Majorana fermions can be simulated by the zero-energy excitation in a nanowire with strong spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ming-Jian Gao , Yu-Peng Ma , Jun-Hong An

We consider a two-lead (three-terminal) setup of nonlocal transport through Majorana zero modes (MZMs) and construct a Majorana master equation (which is also valid for small bias voltage). We first carry out representative results of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Xin-Qi Li , Wei Feng , Lupei Qin , Jinshuang Jin

It was predicted by Tewari [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 027001 (2008)] that a teleportationlike electron transfer phenomenon is one of the novel consequences of the existence of Majorana fermion, because of the inherently nonlocal nature.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Peiyue Wang , Yunshan Cao , Ming Gong , Shu-Shen Li , Xin-Qi Li

We formulate and apply a low-energy transport theory for hybrid quantum devices containing junctions of topological superconductor (TS) wires and conventional normal (N) or superconducting (S) leads. We model TS wires as spinless $p$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-04 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , A. Levy Yeyati

Majorana fermions feature non-Abelian exchange statistics and promise fascinating applications in topological quantum computation. Recently, second-order topological superconductors (SOTSs) have been proposed to host Majorana fermions as…

We analyze a system in which a topological Majorana zero mode (tMZM) combines with a Majorana produced by quantum frustration (fMZM) to produce a novel ground state. The system that we study combines two parts, a grounded topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Gu Zhang , Harold U. Baranger

Qubits built out of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) constitute the primary path towards topologically protected quantum computing. Simulating the braiding process of multiple MZMs corresponds to the quantum dynamics of a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Eric Mascot , Themba Hodge , Dan Crawford , Jasmin Bedow , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

In one-dimensional topological superconductors driven periodically with the frequency $\omega$, two types of topological edge modes may appear, the well-known Majorana zero mode and a Floquet Majorana mode located at the quasi-energy $\hbar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Anne Matthies , Jinhong Park , Erez Berg , Achim Rosch

We show the appearance of an unconventional Majorana zero mode whose wave function splits into multiple parts located at different ends of different topological superconductors, hereinafter referred to as a multi-locational Majorana zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

We present a study of the transmission of electrons through a semiconductor quantum wire with strong spin-orbit coupling in proximity to an s-wave superconductor, which is Coulomb-blockaded. Such a system supports Majorana zero modes in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Casper Drukier , Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Bernd Rosenow , Ady Stern , Yuval Oreg

We investigate a system of Majorana box qubits, where each of the Coulomb blockaded boxes is driven by an applied AC voltage and is embedded in a dissipative environment. The AC voltage is applied between a pair of quantum dots, each of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Kunmin Wu , Sadeq S. Kadijani , Thomas L. Schmidt

Fusing Majorana zero modes leads to multiple outcomes, a property being unique to non-Abelian anyons. Successful demonstration of this nontrivial fusion rule would be a hallmark for the development of topological quantum computation.Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Yu Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhu , Chunhui Li , Juntao Song , Jie Liu , X. C. Xie

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological excitations, such as Majorana zero modes, are a promising route for encoding quantum information. Topologically protected gates of Majorana qubits, based on their braiding, will require some form of network. Here, we propose to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 L. C. Contamin , M. R. Delbecq , B. Dou çot , A. Cottet , T. Kontos

We investigate the dynamical and transport features of a Kondo dot side-coupled to a topological superconductor (TS). The Majorana fermion states (MFS) formed at the ends of the TS are found to be able to alter the Kondo physics profoundly:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-24 Minchul Lee , Jong Soo Lim , Heunghwan Khim , Rosa Lopez

The braiding of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) forms the fundamental building block for topological quantum computation. Braiding protocols which involve the physical exchange of MZMs are typically envisioned on a network of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Bill P. Truong , Kartiek Agarwal , T. Pereg-Barnea

We theoretically investigate the transport and shot noise properties of a one-dimensional semiconducting nanowire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling~(SOC) placed in closed proximity to a bulk $s$-wave superconductor and an altermagnet with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Debashish Mondal , Amartya Pal , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag