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We investigate the role of the coupling between a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanowire and a conventional $s$-wave superconductor on the emergence of the topological superconducting phase with Majorana bound states in an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We consider core-shell nanowires with conductive shell and insulating core, and with polygonal cross section. We investigate the implications of this geometry on Majorana states expected in the presence of proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Andrei Manolescu , Anna Sitek , Javier Osca , Llorenç Serra , Vidar Gudmundsson , Tudor D. Stanescu

We consider a new model system supporting Majorana zero modes based on semiconductor nanowires with a full superconducting shell. We demonstrate that, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling in the semiconductor induced by a radial electric…

An array of quantum wires is a natural starting point in realizing two-dimensional topological phases. We study a system of weakly coupled quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, proximity coupled to a conventional s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Inbar Seroussi , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

We show that semiconductor nanowires coupled to an s-wave superconductor provide a playground to study effects of interactions between different topological superconducting phases supporting Majorana zero-energy modes. We consider quasi-one…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-30 Roman M. Lutchyn , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor. We show that when odd number of subbands are occupied the system realizes non-trivial topological state supporting Majorana modes localized at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-31 Roman M. Lutchyn , Tudor Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We present a theoretical study of the interplay between topological p-wave superconductivity, orbital magnetic fields and quantum Hall phases in coupled wire systems. First, we calculate the phase diagram and physical observables of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Fan Yang , Vivien Perrin , Alexandru Petrescu , Ion Garate , Karyn Le Hur

A hard proximity-induced superconducting gap has recently been observed in semiconductor nanowire systems at low magnetic fields. However, in the topological regime at high magnetic fields, a soft gap emerges and represents a fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Constantin Schrade , Manisha Thakurathi , Christopher Reeg , Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Topological superconductors can host Majorana quasiparticles which supersede the fermion/boson dichotomy and offer a pathway to fault tolerant quantum computation. In one-dimensional systems zero-energy Majorana states are bound to the ends…

Noncollinear magnetism opens exciting possibilities to generate topological superconductivity. Here, we focus on helical and cycloidal magnetic textures in magnet-superconductor hybrid structures in a background magnetic field. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-21 Stefan Rex , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

We present a novel route to realizing topological superconductivity using magnetic flux applied to a full superconducting shell surrounding a semiconducting nanowire core. In the destructive Little-Parks regime, reentrant regions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 S. Vaitiekėnas , G. W. Winkler , B. van Heck , T. Karzig , M. -T. Deng , K. Flensberg , L. I. Glazman , C. Nayak , P. Krogstrup , R. M. Lutchyn , C. M. Marcus

We perform a theoretical study of the orbital effect of a magnetic field on a proximity-coupled islands array of $p_{x}+ip_{y}$ topological superconductors. To describe the system, we generalize the tight-binding model of the Hofstadter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

We consider electrons in tubular nanowires with prismatic geometry and infinite length. Such a model corresponds to a core-shell nanowire with an insulating core and a conductive shell. In a prismatic shell the lowest energy states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Miguel Urbaneja Torres , Anna Sitek , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Gunnar Thorgilsson , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems are promising candidates for the realization Majorana fermions and topological order, i.e. topologically protected degeneracies, in solid state devices. We show that the topological order is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Björn Zocher , Mats Horsdal , Bernd Rosenow

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We consider time-reversal-symmetric two-channel semiconducting quantum wires proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor. We analyze the requirements for a nontrivial topological phase and find that necessary conditions are 1) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 Erikas Gaidamauskas , Jens Paaske , Karsten Flensberg

We study the electronic structure of full-shell superconductor-semiconductor nanowires, which have recently been proposed for creating Majorana zero modes, using an eight-band $\vec{k} \cdot \vec{p}$ model within a fully self-consistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Benjamin D. Woods , Sankar Das Sarma , Tudor D. Stanescu

We consider a system of weakly coupled Rashba nanowires in the strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) regime. The nanowires are arranged into two tunnel-coupled layers proximitized by a top and bottom superconductor such that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

The Majorana phase boundaries in planar 2D hybrid (semiconductor-superconductor) nanowires are modified by orbital effects due to off plane magnetic components. We show that Majorana zero modes survive sizable vertical field tiltings,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Javier Osca , Llorenç Serra
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