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A one-dimensional fermionic system, such as a superconducting wire, may host Majorana zero-energy edge modes (MZMs) at its edges when it is in the topological phase. MZMs provide a path to realising fault-tolerant quantum computation, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Sania Jevtic , Ryan Barnett

We present a comprehensive study of two of the most experimentally relevant extensions of Kitaev's spinless model of a 1D p-wave superconductor: those involving (i) longer range hopping and superconductivity and (ii) inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-08 Wade DeGottardi , Manisha Thakurathi , Smitha Vishveshwara , Diptiman Sen

We analyse an exactly solvable spin-$1/2$ chain which is a generalised version of Kitaev's honeycomb model. We show that every state of the system has a $2^{N/4}$ fold degeneracy, where $N$ is the number of sites. We present analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Abhinav Saket , S. R. Hassan , R. Shankar

We study a frustrated two-dimensional lattice spin model with Kitaev type interaction. The lattice is obtained from the honeycomb lattice by replacing half of its sites with triangles. Using the SO(3) Majorana representation of spin, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-03 Jianlong Fu

We study Kitaev model in one-dimension with open boundary condition by using exact analytic methods for non-interacting system at zero chemical potential as well as in the symmetric case of {\Delta} = t, and by using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-15 Jian-Jian Miao , Hui-Ke Jin , Fu-Chun Zhang , Yi Zhou

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

Interacting fermionic chains exhibit extended regions of topological degeneracy of their ground states as a result of the presence of Majorana or parafermionic zero modes localized at the edges. In the opposite limit of infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-29 Niklas Tausendpfund , Aditi Mitra , Matteo Rizzi

Motivated by the work of Kitaev, we construct an exactly soluble spin-$\frac{1}2$ model on honeycomb lattice whose ground states are identical to $\Delta_{1x}p_x+\Delta_{1y}p_y+i(\Delta_{2x}p_x+\Delta_{2y}p_y)$-wave paired fermions on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yue Yu , Ziqiang Wang

Recently there has been much effort in understanding topological phases of matter with gapless bulk excitations, which are characterized by topological invariants and protected intrinsic boundary states. Here we show that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Robert Schaffer , Eric Kin-Ho Lee , Yuan-Ming Lu , Yong Baek Kim

In this general article, we map the one-dimensional transverse field quantum Ising model of ferromagnetism to Kitaev's one-dimensional p-wave superconductor, which has its application in fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Mapping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Kartik Chhajed

We propose an eigen-operator scheme to study the lattice model of interacting spinless fermions at half filling and show that this model possesses a hidden form of reflection positivity in its Majorana fermion representation. Based on this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-14 Zhong-Chao Wei , Xing-Jie Han , Zhi-Yuan Xie , Tao Xiang

We consider a spin-1/2 tube (a three-leg ladder with periodic boundary conditions) with a Hamiltonian given by two projection operators - one on the triangles, and the other on the square plaquettes on the side of the tube - that can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-09 M. Lajko , P. Sindzingre , K. Penc

We construct a supersymmetric model of interacting Majorana fermions on the kagome lattice. In the infinite-coupling limit, the model exhibits an extensively degenerate ground state manifold separated in two topological sectors, in addition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-02 Chengshu Li , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Marcel Franz

We show that the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model has saturated ferromagnetic ground states with the spin-triplet electron pair condensation in a certain range of parameters. The ground state wave functions with fixed electron numbers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 Akinori Tanaka

We present an exactly solvable spin-orbital model based on the Gamma-matrix generalization of a Kitaev-type Hamiltonian. In the presence of small magnetic fields, the model exhibits a critical phase with a spectrum characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Gia-Wei Chern

A superconducting wire described by a p-wave pairing and a Kitaev Hamiltonian exhibits Majorana fermions at its edges and is topologically protected by symmetry. We consider two Kitaev wires (chains) coupled by a Coulomb type interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Loïc Herviou , Christophe Mora , Karyn Le Hur

We analyze the ground state of a strongly interacting fermion chain with a supersymmetry. We conjecture a number of exact results, such as a hidden duality between weak and strong couplings. By exploiting a scale free property of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-18 Paul Fendley , Christian Hagendorf

We have found the exact ground state for two frustrated quantum spin-1/2 models on a linear chain. The first model describes ferromagnet- antiferromagnet transition point. The singlet state at this point has double-spiral ordering. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 D. V. Dmitriev , V. Ya. Krivnov , A. A. Ovchinnikov

The fermionic Kitaev chain is a canonical model featuring topological Majorana zero modes. We report the experimental realization of its bosonic analogue in a nano-optomechanical network where parametric interactions induce two-mode…

We discuss a one-dimensional fermionic model with a generalized $\mathbb{Z}_{N}$ even multiplet pairing extending Kitaev $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ chain. The system shares many features with models believed to host localized edge parafermions, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-21 Leonardo Mazza , Fernando Iemini , Marcello Dalmonte , Christophe Mora