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We study quantum entanglement in a system comprising two quantum dots interconnected through the short topological superconducting nanowire, which hosts overlapping boundary Majorana modes. Inspecting the fermionic negativity, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 C. Jasiukiewicz , A. Sinner , I. Weymann , T. Domański , L. Chotorlishvili

The study explores perpendicular transport through macroscopically inhomogeneous three-dimensional disordered conductors using mesoscopic methods (real-space Green function technique in a two-probe measuring geometry). The nanoscale samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Branislav K. Nikolic

We investigate the spectral and transport properties of a double quantum dot laterally attached to a topological superconducting nanowire, hosting the Majorana zero-energy modes. Specifically, we consider a geometry, in which the outer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Piotr Majek , Grzegorz Górski , Tadeusz Domański , Ireneusz Weymann

We review mechanisms of low-temperature electronic transport through a quantum dot weakly coupled to two conducting leads. Transport in this case is dominated by electron-electron interaction. At temperatures moderately lower than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , L. I. Glazman

We derive the effective low-energy theory for single-wall carbon nanotubes including the Coulomb interactions among electrons. The generic model found here consists of two spin-1/2 fermion chains which are coupled by the interaction. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Reinhold Egger , Alexander O. Gogolin

Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states can be viewed as topological superconductors of composite fermions, supporting a charged chiral mode and $|\mathcal{C}_{cf}|$ neutral Majorana modes set by the Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Eslam Ahmed , Ryoi Ohashi , Hiroki Isobe , Kentaro Nomura , Yukio Tanaka

In this chapter we review our work on the theory of quantum transport in topological insulator nanowires. We discuss both normal state properties and superconducting proximity effects, including the effects of magnetic fields and disorder.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 Jens H. Bardarson , Roni Ilan

Transport in strongly correlated fermions cannot be understood by fermionic quasiparticles alone. We present a theoretical framework for quantum transport that incorporates strong local correlations of fermion pairs. These contact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-12 Tilman Enss

We investigate a minimal system consisting of a quantum dot coupled to a Majorana zero mode and a normal lead. We identify the underlying screening process as a novel spin-charge Kondo effect, where the low-energy spin and charge degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Haojie Shen , Wei Su , Mengnan Chen , Xiaoqun Wang

Motivated by a recent breakthrough transport experiment [Phys. Rev. B.107.245423 (2023)] in Majorana nanowires, we theoretically investigate local and nonlocal transport in Majorana nanowires in various disorder regimes, correlating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sankar Das Sarma , Haining Pan

A one-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor hosts a Majorana Kramers pair at each end, where time-reversal symmetry acts as a supersymmetry that flips local fermion parity. We examine the transport anomaly of such a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-02 Zhi-qiang Bao , Fan Zhang

We propose a novel realization for a topologically superconducting phase hosting Majorana zero-modes on the basis of quantum spin Hall systems. Remarkably, our proposal is completely free of ferromagnets. Instead, we confine helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , A. Calzona , M. Sassetti , B. Trauzettel

Hybrid nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity in the topological regime host Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at their ends, and networks of such structures can produce topologically protected qubits. In a double-island geometry where…

Two semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) coupled through a superconductor constitute a minimal realisation of a Kitaev chain with Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Such MZMs can be detected by e.g., tunneling conductance between each QD and normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Miguel Alvarado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Ramón Aguado , Rubén Seoane Souto

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana fermion - the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles - has produced the first positive experimental results, but is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-14 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

We demonstrate that nonequilibrium nanoscopic systems with Majorana zero modes admit special kind of universality which cannot be classified as of strictly transport or strictly thermodynamic nature. To reveal such kind of Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 Sergey Smirnov

We show that nonzero drag current in a double quantum-dot system, consisting of a biased drive dot and an unbiased passive dot coupled capacitively, can be generated by a Majorana bound state located at one of the leads connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xiao Xiao , Jian-Xin Zhu

We investigate theoretically the thermoelectric transport properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot side-coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. The calculations are performed using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Piotr Majek , Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Ireneusz Weymann

Nanoelectronics devices, such as quantum dot systems or single-molecule transistors, consist of a quantum nanostructure coupled to a macroscopic external electronic circuit. Thermoelectric transport between source and drain leads is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-05 Emma L. Minarelli , Jonas B. Rigo , Andrew K. Mitchell

Non-abelian anyons are highly desired for topological quantum computation purposes, with Majorana fermions providing a promising route, particularly zero modes with non-trivial mutual statistics. Yet realizing Majorana zero modes in matter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-23 Milan Kornjača , Victor L. Quito , Rebecca Flint