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We explore possible signatures for observing Majorana Fermions in the tunneling spectroscopy of high-Tc cuprate superconductors. We find that as long as the Rashba spin orbit interaction is in presence either through proximity effect due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun-Ting Kao , Shin-Ming Huang , Chung-Yu Mou , C. C. Tsuei

The coherence length of two Majorana zero energy modes in a p-wave topological superconductor is inversely proportional to the superconducting order parameter. We studied the finite size effect of the Majorana zero modes at vortices in a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-14 Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

We propose a protocol to detect topological phase transitions of one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductors from their harmonic emission spectrum in strong fields. Specifically, we identify spectral features due to radiating edge modes, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Niccolò Baldelli , Utso Bhattacharya , Daniel González-Cuadra , Maciej Lewenstein , Tobias Graß

The topological Kondo effect is a genuine manifestation of the nonlocality of Majorana modes. We investigate its out-of-equilibrium signatures in a model with a Cooper-pair box hosting four of these topological modes, each connected to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-27 Matteo M. Wauters , Chia-Min Chung , Lorenzo Maffi , Michele Burrello

We prove a topological criterion for the existence of zero-energy Majorana bound-state on a disclination, a rotation symmetry breaking point defect, in 4-fold symmetric topological crystalline superconductors (TCS). We first establish a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Taylor L. Hughes

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

Majorana bound states are zero-energy excitations of topological superconductors which obey non-Abelian exchange statistics and are basic building blocks for topological quantum computation. In order to observe and exploit their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Alessio Calzona , Björn Trauzettel

We study possible applications of high critical temperature nodal superconductors for the search for Majorana bound states in the DIII class. We propose a microscopic analysis of the proximity effect induced by d-wave superconductors on a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-22 Fabio Trani , Gabriele Campagnano , Arturo Tagliacozzo , Procolo Lucignano

We propose a class of models for a magnonic analog of topological insulators in three dimensions. The models have pseudo-time-reversal symmetry which ensures the existence of bosonic Kramers pairs. We define a set of $\mathbb{Z}_2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Hiroki Kondo , Yutaka Akagi , Hosho Katsura

We construct time reversal invariant topological superconductors and superfluids in two and three dimensions which are analogous to the recently discovered quantum spin Hall and three-d $Z_2$ topological insulators respectively. These…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Taylor L. Hughes , Srinivas Raghu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We propose a tune-free scheme to realize Kramers pairs of Majorana bound states in recently discovered higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs). We show that, by bringing two hinges of a HOTI into the proximity of an $s$-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Chen-Hsuan Hsu , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We present a comprehensive investigation into the emergence of interface-bound states, particularly Majorana zero modes (MZMs), in a lateral heterostructure composed of two three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs), Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yoonkang Kim

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

The topological properties in topological superconductors are usually characterized by the bulk Chern numbers, edge-state spectra, and Majorana zero modes. Whether they are equivalent or inequivalent is not well understood. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Ping Liu , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

After exploring much on two-dimensional higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSCs) hosting Majorana corner modes (MCMs) only, we propose a simple fermionic model based on a three-dimensional topological insulator proximized with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

Vortices in two-dimensional superconductors with broken time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetry can bind states at zero excitation energy. These socalled Majorana bound states transform a thermal insulator into a thermal metal and may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov , M. V. Medvedyeva , J. Tworzydło , C. W. J. Beenakker

Two parallel helical edge channels hosting interacting electrons, when proximitized by local and nonlocal pairings, can host time-reversal-invariant pairs of topological zero modes at the system corners. Here we show that realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Anna Ohorodnyk , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

A time-reversal invariant Kitaev-type model is introduced in which spins (Dirac matrices) on the square lattice interact via anisotropic nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor exchange interactions. The model is exactly solved by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-13 Ryota Nakai , Shinsei Ryu , Akira Furusaki

The oscillation of Majorana modes with near zero energy plays a very important role for ascertaining Majorana fermions. The edge states, which also have almost-zero-energy in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain (SSHc), have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Yang Zhang , Wei Nie , Yu-xi Liu

Certain types of topological superconductors and superfluids are known to host protected Majorana zero modes in cores of Abrikosov vortices. When such vortices are arranged in a dense periodic lattice one expects zero modes from neighboring…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 Tianyu Liu , M. Franz