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We calculate the current as a function of applied voltage in non-topological s-wave superconductor-quantum dot-topological superconductor tunnel junction. We consider the type of TS which hosts two Majorana bound states (MBS) at the ends of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Anatoly Golub

We show that a one dimensional ultra-cold Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions exhibits a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in spite of total number conservation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-09 Jonathan Ruhman , Ehud Altman

Hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowires are predicted to host Majorana zero modes, manifested as zero-bias peaks (ZBPs) in tunneling conductance. ZBPs alone, however, are not sufficient evidence due to the ubiquitous presence of…

The proximity effect in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor structures, crucial for realizing Majorana edge modes, is complicated to control due to its dependence on many unknown microscopic parameters. In addition, defects can spoil the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 T. Ö. Rosdahl , A. Vuik , M. Kjaergaard , A. R. Akhmerov

We theoretically investigate the transport and shot noise properties of a one-dimensional semiconducting nanowire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling~(SOC) placed in closed proximity to a bulk $s$-wave superconductor and an altermagnet with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Debashish Mondal , Amartya Pal , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag

Majorana 'zero-modes' are expected to be immune to decoherence. The primary method for their characterization in a 1D topological superconductor, is measuring the tunneling current into the edge of the superconductor. Presently, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Anna Grivnin , Ella Bor , Moty Heiblum , Yuval Oreg , Hadas Shtrikman

One-dimensional topological superconductors host Majorana zero modes (MZMs), the non-local property of which could be exploited for quantum computing applications. Spin- polarized scanning tunneling microscopy measurements show that MZMs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 Sangjun Jeon , Yonglong Xie , Jian Li , Zhijun Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

We study Majorana zero energy modes (MZEM) that occur in a s-wave superconducting surface, at the ends of a ferromagnetic (FM) chain of adatoms, in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) considering both non self-consistent and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-31 T. Cadez , P. D. Sacramento

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba coupling and in proximity of a superconductor hosts Majorana edge modes. An array of such nanowires with inter-wire coupling gives an approximate description of a two-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Deepti Rana , Goutam Sheet

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 describe scanning tunneling spectroscopic signatures of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in Kitaev spin liquids. The tunnel conductance is determined by the dynamical spin correlations of the spin liquid, which we compute exactly, and by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-24 Tim Bauer , Lucas R. D. Freitas , Rodrigo G. Pereira , Reinhold Egger

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have been proposed as a promising basis for Majorana qubits offering great potential for topological quantum computation. Such modes may form at the ends of a magnetic atomic chain on a superconductor. Typically…

The emergence of Majorana bound states in finite length superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems has been predicted to occur in the form of oscillatory energy levels with parity crossings around zero energy. Each zero-energy crossing is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Jorge Cayao

The unambiguous identification of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) is one of the most outstanding problems of condensed matter physics. Thermal transport provides a detection tool that is sensitive to these chargeless quasiparticles. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Raffael L. Klees , Daniel Gresta , Jonathan Sturm , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Topological Josephson junctions enable nonreciprocal transport involving Majorana fermions (MFs). Here we examine a topological Josephson junction with mixed $s$+$p$-wave pairing, where topological phase transition can be driven by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Shu-Tong Guan , Jin An

We report an experimental study of the scaling of zero-bias conductance peaks compatible with Majorana zero modes as a function of magnetic field, tunnel coupling, and temperature in one-dimensional structures fabricated from an epitaxial…

Phonon-assisted electronic tunnelings through a vibrating quantum dot embedded between normal and superconducting leads are studied in the Kondo regime. In such a hybrid device, with the bias applied to the normal lead, we find a series of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 Zhan Cao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun , Hong-Gang Luo

We investigate the spectral and transport properties of a double quantum dot laterally attached to a topological superconducting nanowire, hosting the Majorana zero-energy modes. Specifically, we consider a geometry, in which the outer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Piotr Majek , Grzegorz Górski , Tadeusz Domański , Ireneusz Weymann

We investigate quantum transport through a quantum dot connected to source and drain leads and side-coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire (Kitaev chain) sustaining Majorana end modes. Using a recursive Green's function approach,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-06 E. Vernek , P. H. Penteado , A. C. Seridonio , J. C. Egues

Unambiguous identification of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in topological superconductors (TSCs) remains a challenge due to complex in-gap states that can also produce zero-bias conductance peaks (ZBPs). Here we demonstrate a data-driven…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-20 Jewook Park , Hoyeon Jeon , Dongwon Shin , Guannan Zhang , Michael A McGuire , Brian C. Sales , An-Ping Li