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Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor(SC-SM) nanowires remain one of the foremost platforms for engineering topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes(MZMs) towards fault-tolerant topological qubits, especially with the rapid…

We demonstrate several new electron transport phenomena mediated by Andreev bound states (ABSs) that form on three-terminal carbon nanotube (CNT) QDs, with one superconducting (S) contact in the center and two adjacent normal metal (N)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 J. Gramich , A. Baumgartner , C. Schönenberger

The charge character of Andreev bound states (ABSs) in a three-terminal semiconductor-superconductor hybrid nanowire was measured using local and nonlocal tunneling spectroscopy. The device is fabricated using an epitaxial InAs/Al…

It was predicted that a minimal chain of two quantum dots (QDs) connected via a superconductor can host perfectly localized zero-energy states, known as poor man's Majoranas (PMMs). It is expected that these states are related to Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Melina Luethi , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Semiconductor-s-type superconductor nanowires host spinful fermions and cannot be reduced to a single spinless Kitaev chain hosting single Majorana zero mode. Instead, such systems can be converted into two coupled p-wave Kitaev-like chains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mijanur Islam , Mahan Mohseni , Ibsal Assi , Daniel Miravet , Pawel Hawrylak

We introduce a density matrix-based network analysis to explore the ground state of the Kitaev chain, uncovering previously hidden structural and entanglement features. This approach successfully identifies the critical point associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Guillem Llodrà , Roberta Zambrini , Gian Luca Giorgi

The dynamic balance between pair creation and annihilation processes takes a crucial role to the topological superconductivity in Kitaev model. Here we study the effect of spatial separation of creation and annihilation terms, i.e., sources…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-06 Y. B. Shi , Z. Song

In this work, we consider a single-level quantum dot (QD) and a Majorana bound state (MBS) placed at the end of a topological superconducting nanowire (TSW). Both are coupled to the continuum and do not have a direct connection between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , P. A. Orellana , E. Vernek

Inspired by recent experiments, we study a short superconducting junction of length $L\ll \xi$ (coherence length) inserted in a dc-SQUID containing an ancillary Josephson tunnel junction. We evaluate the nonequilibrium occupation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Raffael L. Klees , Gianluca Rastelli , Wolfgang Belzig

Poor man's Majorana Bound States (MBS) arise in minimal Kitaev chains when the parameters are fine-tuned to a sweet spot. We consider an interacting two-site Kitaev chain coupled to a single-mode cavity and show that the sweet spot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Álvaro Gómez-León , Marco Schirò , Olesia Dmytruk

The relation between band topology and Majorana zero energy modes (MZMs) in topological superconductors had been well studied in the past decades. However, the relation between the quantum metric and MZMs has yet to be understood. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-26 Xingyao Guo , Xinglei Ma , Xuzhe Ying , K. T. Law

We investigate the robustness of Majorana edge modes under disorder and interactions. We exploit a recently found mapping of the interacting Kitaev chain in the symmetric region ($\mu = 0$, $t = \Delta$) to free fermions. Extending the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Max McGinley , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Hybrid superconductor-semiconducting nanowire devices provide an ideal platform to investigating novel intragap bound states, such as the Andreev bound states (ABSs), Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states, and the Majorana bound states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 S. Li , N. Kang , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

We study the lifetime of topological qubits based on Majorana bound states hosted in a one-dimensional Rashba nanowire (NW) with proximity-induced superconductivity and non-uniform chemical potential needed for manipulation and read-out. If…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Pavel P. Aseev , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We study a series of dynamical protocols which involve periodically driving a quantum dot coupled to a putative nanowire hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) to i) reduce the hybridization between MZMs, ii) improve the coherence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Brett Min , Bastien Fajardo , T. Pereg-Barnea , Kartiek Agarwal

A tunneling junction between normal electrode and a topological superconducting wire, mediated by a quantum dot, is considered theoretically. We show that the presence of the dot in the junction can be advantageous to Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Piotr Stefański

It was recently shown that an interacting Kitaev topological superconductor model is exactly solvable based on two-step Jordan-Wigner transformations together with one spin rotation. We generalize this model by including the dimerization,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-25 Motohiko Ezawa

We study the energy spectrum and transport property of a one-dimensional Kitaev quantum ring in a threading magnetic field. It is demonstrated that the magnetic field can effectively induce topological phase transitions for the ring in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

It is widely accepted that topological superconductors can only have an effective interpretation in terms of curved geometry rather than gauge fields due to their charge neutrality. This approach is commonly employed in order to investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-24 Ashk Farjami , Matthew D. Horner , Chris N. Self , Zlatko Papić , Jiannis K. Pachos

We study Andreev bound state (ABS) and surface density of state (SDOS) of non-centrosymmetric superconductor where spin-singlet $d$-wave pairing mixes with spin-triplet $p$ (or $f)$-wave one by spin-orbit coupling. For $d_{xy} + p$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-05 Keiji Yada , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama