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We study the band structure and transport properties of ferromagnetic tetragonal silicene nanoribbons by using the non-equilibrium Green's function method. The band structure and spin-dependent conductance are discussed under the combined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Liehong Liao , Ying Ding , Fei Wan , Jiayan Zhang , Zhihui Chen , Xinyu Cheng , Ru Bai , Gaofeng Xu , Yuan Li

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…

We theoretically discuss the emergence of fractional Shapiro steps in a Josephson junction created by confining a two-dimensional electron gas at an oxide interface. This phenomenon is induced by an alternating current of proper amplitude…

Spin vacancies in the non-Abelian Kitaev spin liquid are known to harbor Majorana zero modes, potentially enabling topological quantum computing at elevated temperatures. Here, we study the spectroscopic signatures of such Majorana zero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-21 Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins , Gábor B. Halász

Higher-order topological insulators are distinguished by the existence of topologically protected modes with codimension two or higher. Here, we report the manifestation of a second-order topological insulator in a two dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-03 Vatsal Dwivedi , Ciarán Hickey , Tim Eschmann , Simon Trebst

Two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors (SOTSCs) have gapped bulk and edge states, with zero-energy Majorana bound states localized at corners. Motivated by recent advances in Majorana nanowire experiments, we propose to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 S. Franca , D. V. Efremov , I. C. Fulga

We study a spin-orbital model for 4$d^{1}$ or 5$d^{1}$ Mott insulators in ordered double perovskites with strong spin-orbit coupling. This model is conveniently written in terms of pseudospin and pseudo-orbital operators representing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-12 Willian Natori , Maria Daghofer , Rodrigo Pereira

Recently it has been shown that multicomponent spin-orbit-coupled fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices can be viewed as spinless fermions moving in two-dimensional synthetic lattices with synthetic magnetic flux. The quantum Hall…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-03 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan , Zhong Wang

Finite-length one-dimensional topological superconductor wires host localized Majorana zero modes at their ends. In realistic models, these appear only after a topological quantum critical point is crossed by external tuning of parameters.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We show that a one-dimensional topological superconductor can be realized in carbon nanotubes, using a relatively small magnetic field. Our analysis relies on the intrinsic curvature-enhanced spin-orbit coupling of the nanotubes, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omri Lesser , Gal Shavit , Yuval Oreg

We study the emergence of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at the ends of a finite double zigzag honeycomb nanoribbon (zHNR). We show that a double zHNR geometry can host spin-polarized MZMs at its ends. We considered a minimal model composed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 R. C. Bento Ribeiro , J. H. Correa , L. S. Ricco , A. C. Seridonio , M. S. Figueira

In a multiply hydrogenated polymer of phenalenyl tessellation molecules (PTMs), spatially overlapping zero modes appear, and three spin-aligned electron spins per PTM are generated through direct exchange interactions in the strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 Kenshin Komatsu , Naoki Morishita , Motoharu Kitatani , Koichi Kusakabe

We realize a gapless Majorana Orbital Liquid (MOL) using orbital degrees of freedom and also an SU(2)-invariant Majorana Spin Liquid (MSL) using both spin and orbital degrees of freedom in Kitaev-type models on a 2-leg ladder. The models…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Hsin-Hua Lai , Olexei I. Motrunich

We demonstrate a novel means of creating Majorana zero modes using magnetic flux applied to a full superconducting shell surrounding a semiconducting nanowire core, unifying approaches based on proximitized nanowires and vortices in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 S. Vaitiekėnas , M. -T. Deng , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

We analyse the control of Majorana zero-energy states by mapping the fermionic system onto a chain of Ising spins. Although the topological protection is lost for the Ising system, the mapping provides additional insight into the nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Stefan Backens , Alexander Shnirman , Yuriy Makhlin , Yuval Gefen , Johan E. Mooij , Gerd Schön

Quantum mechanical systems, whose degrees of freedom are so-called su(2)_k anyons, form a bridge between ordinary SU(2) spin systems and systems of interacting non-Abelian anyons. Such a connection can be made for arbitrary spin-S systems,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-15 Charlotte Gils , Eddy Ardonne , Simon Trebst , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Matthias Troyer , Zhenghan Wang

Recent experimental advances in the field of cold atoms led to the development of novel techniques for producing synthetic dimensions and synthetic magnetic fields, thus greatly expanding the utility of cold atomic systems for exploring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-28 Or Golan , Eran Sela , Kirill Shtengel

Hybrid system composed by a semiconducting nanowire with proximity-induced superconductivity and a quantum dot at the end working as spectrometer was recently used to quantify the so-called degree of Majorana nonlocality [Deng et al.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 L. S. Ricco , M. de Souza , M. S. Figueira , I. A. Shelykh , A. C. Seridonio

We devise a number-conserving scheme for the realization of Majorana Zero Modes in an interacting fermionic ladder coupled by Aharonov-Bohm cages. The latter provide an efficient mechanism to cancel single-particle hopping by destructive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-01 Niklas Tausendpfund , Sebastian Diehl , Matteo Rizzi

Motivated by the prospect of attaining Majorana modes at the ends of nanowires, we analyze interacting Majorana systems on general networks and lattices in an arbitrary number of dimensions, and derive various universal spin duals. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Zohar Nussinov , Gerardo Ortiz , Emilio Cobanera