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A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling and coupled to a superconductor can be tuned by an external Zeeman field into a topological phase with Majorana zero modes. Here we theoretically investigate how this exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Annica Black-Schaffer , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada

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

Time periodic modulations of the transverse field in the closed XY spin-1/2 chain generate a very rich dynamical phase diagram, with a hierarchy of topological phases characterized by differing numbers of Floquet-Majorana modes. We show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-09 Paolo Molignini , Evert van Nieuwenburg , R. Chitra

Studies of periodically driven one-dimensional many-body systems have advanced our understanding of complex systems and stimulated promising developments in quantum simulation. It is hence of interest to go one step further, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong

I. Introduction (What is new in RMT, Superconducting quasiparticles, Experimental platforms) II. Topological superconductivity (Kitaev chain, Majorana operators, Majorana zero-modes, Phase transition beyond mean-field) III. Fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 C. W. J. Beenakker

Josephson junctions operated in the dynamical Coulomb blockade regime recently gained an significant amount of attention as central building block in concepts to demonstrate the non-Abelian character of Majorana fermions. Its physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Berthold Jäck , Jacob Senkpiel , Markus Etzkorn , Joachim Ankerhold , Christian R. Ast , Klaus Kern

In a variety of rare-earth based compounds singlet superconductivity coexists with helical magnetism. Here we demonstrate that surfaces of these systems should generically host a finite density of zero-energy Majorana modes. In the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivar Martin , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We theoretically study superconducting islands based on semiconductor-nanowire Josephson junctions and take into account the presence of subgap quasiparticle excitations in the spectrum of the junction. Our method extends the standard model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-06 J. Avila , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado

We compute the Floquet Hamiltonian $H_F$ for weakly interacting fermions subjected to a continuous periodic drive using a Floquet perturbation theory (FPT) with the interaction amplitude being the perturbation parameter. This allows us to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Roopayan Ghosh , Bhaskar Mukherjee , K. Sengupta

We propose a scheme to implement Kitaev's honeycomb model with cold atoms, based on a periodic (Floquet) drive, in view of realizing and probing non-Abelian chiral spin liquids using quantum simulators. We derive the effective Hamiltonian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-29 Bo-Ye Sun , Nathan Goldman , Monika Aidelsburger , Marin Bukov

Recently, topological superconductors based on Josephson junctions in two-dimensional electron gases with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling have been proposed as attractive alternatives to wire-based setups. Here, we elucidate how…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-14 Benedikt Scharf , Falko Pientka , Hechen Ren , Amir Yacoby , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Majorana fermion (MF) excitations in solid state system have non-Abelian statistics which is essential for topological quantum computation. Previous proposals to realize MF, however, generally requires fine-tuning of parameters. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Hoi-Yin Hui , P. M. R. Brydon , Jay D. Sau , S. Tewari , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the topological properties of spin polarized fermionic polar molecules loaded in a multi-layer structure with the electric dipole moment polarized to the normal direction. When polar molecules are paired by attractive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-01 Ching-Yu Huang , Yen-Ting Lin , Hao Lee , Daw-Wei Wang

The Majorana zero-energy modes (MZMs) residing at the boundary of topological superconductors have attracted a great deal of interest recently, as they provide a platform to explore fundamental physics such as non-Abelian statistics, as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-30 Jinho Park , Yong-Bin Choi , Gil-Ho Lee , Hu-Jong Lee

The period-doubling oscillation emerges with the coexistence between zero and {\pi} modes in Floquet topological insulator. Here, utilized the flexibility of the circuit, we construct the Floquet circuit with frequency-synthetic dimension…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Bo Lv , Shiyun Xia , Ye Tian , Ting Liu , Hongyang Mu , Zhichao Shen , Sijie Wang , Zheng Zhu , Huibin Tao , Fanyi Meng , Jinhui Shi

We found that QED in the lowest eigenstate of the microwave-cavity, capacitively coupled with Majorana populated Josephson junctions array, is described with an effective $\phi^{4}$ model emerging in the finite domain of the system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-20 S. I. Mukhin , N. V. Gnezdilov , Seid ali Seidov

We study the robustness of the Floquet quantum Ising model against integrability-breaking perturbations, focusing on the phase hosting both Majorana zero and $\pi$ modes. A recent work [Phys. Rev. B 110, 075117, (2024)] observed that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-24 Felix Möckel , Harald Schmid , Felix von Oppen

We consider Majorana zero modes in a Josephson junction on top of a topological insulator in transverse magnetic field. Majorana zero modes reside at periodically located nodes of Josephson vortices. We find that hybridization of these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-28 Stefan Backens , Alexander Shnirman , Yuriy Makhlin

Parafermion zero modes are generalizations of Majorana modes that underlie comparatively rich non-Abelian-anyon properties. We introduce exact mappings that connect parafermion chains, which can emerge in two-dimensional fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

We study a series of dynamical protocols which involve periodically driving a quantum dot coupled to a putative nanowire hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) to i) reduce the hybridization between MZMs, ii) improve the coherence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Brett Min , Bastien Fajardo , T. Pereg-Barnea , Kartiek Agarwal