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Finite-length one-dimensional topological superconductor wires host localized Majorana zero modes at their ends. In realistic models, these appear only after a topological quantum critical point is crossed by external tuning of parameters.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the effects of Majorana bound states on the ac response of a quantum resistor-capacitor circuit which is composed of a topological superconducting wire whose two ends are tunnel-coupled to a lead and a spinless quantum dot,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Minchul Lee

Very few topological systems with long-range couplings have been considered so far due to our lack of analytic approaches. Here we extend the Kitaev chain, a 1D quantum liquid, to infinite-range couplings and study its topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Kristian Patrick , Titus Neupert , Jiannis K. Pachos

The signatures of Majorana zero-energy mode leaking into a spin-charge entangled double quantum dot are investigated theoretically in the strong electron correlation regime. The considered setup consists of two capacitively coupled quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

The inclusion of long-range couplings in the Kitaev chain is shown to modify the universal scaling of topological states close to the critical point. By means of the scattering approach, we prove that the Majorana states \textit{soften},…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Alessandro Tarantola , Nicolò Defenu

We study one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductors capacitively coupled to a microwave stripline cavity. By probing the light exiting from the cavity, one can reveal the electronic susceptibility of the $p$-wave superconductor. We analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Olesia Dmytruk , Mircea Trif , Pascal Simon

The oscillation of Majorana modes with near zero energy plays a very important role for ascertaining Majorana fermions. The edge states, which also have almost-zero-energy in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain (SSHc), have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Yang Zhang , Wei Nie , Yu-xi Liu

One of the problems concerning topological phases in solid-state systems which still remains urgent is an issue of many-body effects. In this study we address it within perturbative theory framework by considering topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 M. S. Shustin , S. V. Aksenov , I. S. Burmistrov

We numerically study the quantum phase transitions and the stability of Majorana zero modes in a generalized Kitaev model in one dimension when the chemical potential is periodically modulating in space. By using the exact diagonalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-17 Takumi Ohta , Keisuke Totsuka

The dissipative dynamics of a quantum bistable system coupled to a Ohmic heat bath is investigated beyond the spin-boson approximation. Within the path-integral approach to quantum dissipation, we propose an approximation scheme which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 Luca Magazzù , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Milena Grifoni

We theoretically study the effects of isotropic dissipation in a topological mechanical system which is an analogue of Chern insulator in mechanical vibrational lattice. The global gauge invariance is still conserved in this system albeit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 Ye Xiong , Tianxiang Wang , Peiqing Tong

We investigate Majorana modes in a quantum spin chain with bond-dependent exchange interactions by studying its dynamics. Specifically, we consider two-time correlations for the Kitaev-Heisenberg (KH) Hamiltonian close to the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Johannes Bjerlin , Anders S. Sørensen , Stephan Haas

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana fermions, their role in topological quantum computation, and the possibility of realizing them in condensed matter systems, has attracted considerable attention. While there have been recent reports of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 David Nozadze , Nandini Trivedi

We study the quasiparticle spectrum of a hybrid system, comprising a correlated (Anderson-type) quantum dot coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting the Majorana boundarymodes. From the exact solution of the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jan Barański , Magdalena Barańska , Tomasz Zienkiewicz , Tadeusz Domański

Topological states of fermionic matter can be induced by means of a suitably engineered dissipative dynamics. Dissipation then does not occur as a perturbation, but rather as the main resource for many-body dynamics, providing a targeted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. -E. Bardyn , M. A. Baranov , C. V. Kraus , E. Rico , A. Imamoglu , P. Zoller , S. Diehl

We study power dissipation for systems of multiple quantum wires meeting at a junction, in terms of a current splitting matrix (M) describing the junction. We present a unified framework for studying dissipation for wires with either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Amit Agarwal , Sourin Das , Diptiman Sen

We quantitatively study the out-of-equilibrium edge-Majorana correlation in a linearly ramped one-dimensional Kitaev chain of finite length in a dissipative environment. The chemical potential is dynamically ramped to drive the chain from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-23 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Sourav Bhattacharjee , Amit Dutta

The edge state of the topological insulator coupled to a superconductor system is able to simulate the Majorana fermion in zero energy mode since the Kitaev-type pairing is induced by exchanging quasi-excitations in electron tunneling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Xin Yue , Guo-Jian Qiao , C. P. Sun

We investigate the topological properties of a dimerized Kitaev chain with long-range interactions, including the intercell hopping and superconducting pairing terms. It is found that even only when the intercell hopping term appears, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Xue-Si Li , Jia-Rui Li , Shu-Feng Zhang , Lian-Lian Zhang , Wei-Jiang Gong

We study the p-wave superconducting wire with a periodically modulated chemical potential and show that the Majorana edge states are robust against the periodic modulation. We find that the critical amplitude of modulated potential, at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-04 Li-Jun Lang , Shu Chen