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It has been argued that fluctuations of fermion parity are harmful for the demonstration of non-Abelian anyonic statistics. Here, we demonstrate a striking exception in which such fluctuations are actively used. We present a theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Sunghun Park , H. -S. Sim , Patrik Recher

We investigate theoretically thermal and electrical conductances for the system consisting of a quantum dot (QD) connected both to a pair of Majorana fermions residing the edges of a Kitaev wire and two metallic leads. We demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 L. S. Ricco , F. A. Dessotti , I. A. Shelykh , M. S. Figueira , A. C. Seridonio

We theoretically study nonadiabatic corrections for charge pumping in a noninteracting electron model of a single-level quantum dot. We derive a formula for the velocity limit of parameter driving to realize adiabatic pumping and illustrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Masahiro Hasegawa , Takeo Kato

Majorana fermions in a superconductor hybrid system are charge neutral zero-energy states. For the detection of this unique feature, we propose an interferometry of a chiral Majorana edge channel, formed along the interface between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sunghun Park , Joel E. Moore , H. -S. Sim

In this Letter, we consider the adiabatic charge transport through a normal mesoscopic sample sandwiched by superconductors without modulation of local chemical potentials. The deformation of coherent quasiparticles in the normal metal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fei Zhou

We study a system of a few ultracold bosons loaded into the states with orbital angular momentum $l=1$ of a one-dimensional staggered lattice of rings. Local eigenstates with winding numbers $+l$ and $-l$ form a Creutz ladder with a real…

We provide provide a detailed study of biasless coherent transport of singlet electron pairs in one-dimensional (1D) channels induced by electron-electron interactions that are time-varying in certain spatially localized regions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kunal K. Das

We propose a random matrix theory to describe the influence of a time-dependent external field on electron transport through open quantum dots. We describe the generation of the current by an oscillating field for the dot, connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim G. Vavilov , V. Ambegaokar , Igor L. Aleiner

We consider adiabatic charge transport through an almost open quantum dot. We show that the charge transmitted in one cycle is quantized in the limit of vanishing temperature and one-electron mean level spacing in the dot. The explicit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Aleiner , A. V. Andreev

In semiconducting-superconducting hybrid devices, Andreev bound states (ABSs) can mediate the coupling between quantum dots (QDs), allowing for the realisation of artificial Kitaev chains. In order to engineer Majorana bound states (MBSs)…

Transport through two quantum dots laterally embedded in Aharonov-Bohm interferometry with infinite intradot and arbitrary interdot Coulomb repulsion is analyzed in the weak coupling and Coulomb blockade regime. By employing the modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jing Ma , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

When it comes to applying the adiabatic theorem in practice, the key question to be answered is how slow "slowly enough" is. This question can be an intricate one, especially for many-body systems, where the limits of slow driving and large…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-04 Oleg Lychkovskiy , Oleksandr Gamayun , Vadim Cheianov

Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm interferometers have been used in attempts to measure the transmission phase of a quantum dot which is placed on one arm of the interferometer. Here we review theoretical results for the conductance through such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 A. Aharony , O. Entin-Wohlman , Y. Imry

Non-Abelian Thouless pumping intertwines adiabatic quantum control and topological quantum transport and it holds potential for quantum metrology and computing. In this work, we introduce a ladder model featuring two doubly-degenerate bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Carlo Danieli , Valentina Brosco , Laura Pilozzi , Roberta Citro

In this paper, we investigate the transport properties of spinful electrons tunnel-coupled to a finite-length Majorana nanowire on one end which is further tunnel-coupled to a quantum dot (QD) at the other end. Using a full counting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Alexander Schuray , Manuel Rammler , Patrik Recher

We study the effects of inter-electron interactions on the charge pumped through an adiabatic quantum electron pump. The pumping is through a system of barriers, whose heights are deformed adiabatically. (Weak) interaction effects are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

We study the quantum dynamics of Majorana and regular fermion bound states coupled to a quasi-one-dimensional metallic lead. The dynamics following the quench in the coupling to the lead exhibits a series of dynamical revivals as the bound…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-30 Daniel Dahan , Mostafa Tanhayi Ahari , Gerardo Ortiz , Babak Seradjeh , Eytan Grosfeld

Quantum tunneling of an electron through a classically forbidden regime has no classical analogue and several aspects of it are still not well understood. In this work we analyze electronic currents under the barrier. For this we consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sreemoyee Mukherjee , P. Singha Deo , A. M. Jayannavar

Majorana zero modes are leading candidates for topological quantum computation due to non-local qubit encoding and non-abelian exchange statistics. Spatially separated Majorana modes are expected to allow phase-coherent single-electron…

Nonequilibrium steady states are explicitly constructed for a noninteracting electron model of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring with a quantum dot (QD) with the aid of asymptotic fields. The Fano line shapes and AB oscillations are shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junko Takahashi , Shuichi Tasaki