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The effect of multiple topological transitions for electron-hole excitations is discovered in full shell proximitized semiconducting nanowires with trapped superconducting vortices, recently shown to be a promising platform for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 A. A. Kopasov , A. S. Mel'nikov

The clear-cut experimental identification of Majorana bound states in transport measurements still poses experimental challenges. We here show that the zero-energy Majorana state formed at a junction of three topological superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-13 T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , A. Zazunov , R. Egger , A. Levy Yeyati , T. Martin

We theoretically study the tunneling conductance of a junction consisting of a two-dimensional unconventional $p$-wave magnet (UPM) and a superconductor (SC) for various pairing symmetries. The zero bias conductance peaks arising from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-17 Kazuki Maeda , Bo Lu , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka

Majorana zero mode is an exotic quasi-particle excitation with non-Abelian statistics in topological superconductor systems, and can serve as the cornerstone for topological quantum computation, a new type of fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-27 Xianxin Wu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Gang Xu , Jiangping Hu , Chao-Xing Liu

We theoretically discuss electronic transport via Majorana states in magnetic topological insulator-superconductor junctions with an asymmetric split of the applied bias voltage. We study normal-superconductor-normal (NSN) junctions made of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Daniele Di Miceli , Eduárd Zsurka , Julian Legendre , Kristof Moors , Thomas Schmidt , Llorenç Serra

We study the influence of a magnetic field $H$ on the zero-bias conductance peak (ZBCP) due to zero-energy Andreev bound state (ZES) in normal metal / unconventional superconductor. For p-wave junctions, ZBCP does not split into two by $H$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Tanaka , Y. Tanuma , K. Kuroki , S. Kashiwaya

We study Andreev reflection in a ballistic one-dimensional channel coupled in parallel to a superconductor via a tunnel barrier of finite length $L$. The dependence of the low-energy Andreev reflection probability $R_A$ on $L$ reveals the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giorgos Fagas , Grigory Tkachov , Andreas Pfund , Klaus Richter

The Majorana fermion, which is its own anti-particle and obeys non-abelian statistics, plays a critical role in topological quantum computing. It can be realized as a bound state at zero energy, called a Majorana zero mode (MZM), in the…

Odd-frequency superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. Majorana zero modes exhibit pure odd-frequency superconducting correlations due to their specific…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

We study the properties of a quantum dot coupled to a one-dimensional topological superconductor and a normal lead and discuss the interplay between Kondo and Majorana-induced couplings in quantum dot. The latter appears due to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Meng Cheng , Michael Becker , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn

Magnetic skyrmions in proximity to superconductors offer a route to engineering topological superconductivity due to the synthetic spin-orbit coupling engendered by the spin twist of the skyrmion texture. Previous theoretical works show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-11 Bastien Fajardo , T. Pereg-Barnea , Arun Paramekanti , Kartiek Agarwal

We investigate transport though normal-superconductor nanowire junctions in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. As the Zeeman field crosses the critical bulk value B_c of the topological transition, a Majorana bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose , Ramon Aguado

The Andreev transport through a quantum dot coupled to two external ferromagnetic leads and one superconducting lead is studied theoretically by means of the real-time diagrammatic technique in the sequential and cotunneling regimes. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 I. Weymann , P. Trocha

Hybrid semiconductor-superconductor devices hold great promise for realizing topological quantum computing with Majorana zero modes (MZMs). However, multiple claims of Majorana detection, based on either tunneling or Coulomb blockade (CB)…

We investigate the dynamical and transport features of a Kondo dot side-coupled to a topological superconductor (TS). The Majorana fermion states (MFS) formed at the ends of the TS are found to be able to alter the Kondo physics profoundly:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-24 Minchul Lee , Jong Soo Lim , Heunghwan Khim , Rosa Lopez

Experiments on planar Josephson junction architectures have recently been shown to provide an alternative way of creating topological superconductors hosting accessible Majorana modes. These zero-energy modes can be found at the ends of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 F. Setiawan , Chien-Te Wu , K. Levin

Majorana fermions are spin-1/2 neutral particles that are their own antiparticles and were initially predicted by Ettore Majorana in particle physics but their observation still remains elusive. The concept of Majorana fermions has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Yukio Tanaka , Shun Tamura , Jorge Cayao

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are exotic excitations (in condensed matter systems) that have potential applications in topological quantum computation. Though MZMs have been predicted on many platforms, their existence of them is still under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Zhan Cao , Shumeng Chen , Gu Zhang , Dong E. Liu

We study a ring geometry, coupled to two normal metallic leads, which has a Majorana bound state (MBS) embedded in one of its arm and is threaded by Aharonov Bohm ($\mathcal{A}\mathcal{B}$) flux $\phi$. We show that by varying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Krashna Mohan Tripathi , Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

We study the differential conductance for charge tunneling into a semiconductor wire--superconductor hybrid structure, which is actively investigated as a possible scheme for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 John Stenger , Tudor D. Stanescu
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