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We examine the lattice boundary formulation of chiral fermions with either an explicit Majorana mass or a Higgs-Majorana coupling introduced on one of the boundaries. We demonstrate that the low-lying spectrum of the models with an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Aoki , K. Nagai , S. V. Zenkin

We study theoretically a strongly type-II s-wave superconducting state of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in proximity to a ferromagnet having in-plane magnetization. It is shown that a magnetic domain wall can host a chain of equally spaced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-16 Titus Neupert , Shigeki Onoda , Akira Furusaki

The fermion representation for S = 1/2 spins is generalized to spins with arbitrary magnitudes. The symmetry properties of the representation is analyzed where we find that the particle-hole symmetry in the spinon Hilbert space of S =1/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-28 Zheng-Xin Liu , Yi Zhou , Tai-Kai Ng

Majorana particles are the same as their antiparticle, and their analogues in condensed matter may be a platform for quantum computing. We describe the search for these modes in semiconductor heterostructures and how disorder is a limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Sankar Das Sarma

Majorana modes and fractional fermions are two types of edge zero modes appearing separately in topological superconductors and dimerized chains. Here we reveal how to harvest both types of edge modes simultaneously in an exotic chain. Such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-04 Dan-bo Zhang , Qiang-Hua Wang , Z. D. Wang

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Interesting phases of quantum matter often arise when the constituent particles -- electrons in solids -- interact strongly. Such strongly interacting systems are however quite rare and occur only in extreme environments of low spatial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-03 Ching-Kai Chiu , D. I. Pikulin , M. Franz

Using the Majorana fermion representation of spin-1/2 local moments, we show how it is possible to directly read off the dynamic spin correlation and susceptibility from the one-particle propagator of the Majorana fermion. We illustrate our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Mao , P. Coleman , C. Hooley , D. Langreth

We introduce a new approach to create and detect Majorana fermions using optically trapped 1D fermionic atoms. In our proposed setup, two internal states of the atoms couple via an optical Raman transition---simultaneously inducing an…

The coupled Einstein-Dirac equations for a static, spherically symmetric system of two fermions in a singlet spinor state are derived. Using numerical methods, we construct an infinite number of soliton-like solutions of these equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Felix Finster , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau

We present a unified study of the effect of periodic, quasiperiodic and disordered potentials on topological phases that are characterized by Majorana end modes in 1D p-wave superconducting systems. We define a topological invariant derived…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 Wade DeGottardi , Diptiman Sen , Smitha Vishveshwara

We consider a real scalar field and a Majorana fermion field to construct a supersymmetric quantum theory of free fermion fields based on the deformed Heisenberg algebra $[x,p]=i\hbar\big(1-\beta p+2\beta^{2}p^{2}\big)$, where $\beta $ is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 Kourosh Nozari , M. Moafi , F. Rezaee Balef

Classical and quantum aspects of physical systems that can be described by Riemannian non degenerate superspaces are analyzed from the topological and geometrical points of view. For the N=1 case the simplest supermetric introduced in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo

Majorana fermions are predicted to localize at the edge of a topological superconductor, a state of matter that can form when a ferromagnetic system is placed in proximity to a conventional superconductor with strong spin-orbit interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Stevan Nadj-Perge , Ilya K. Drozdov , Jian Li , Hua Chen , Sangjun Jeon , Jungpil Seo , Allan H. MacDonald , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

We employ the Dirac-like equation for the gauge field proposed by Majorana to obtain an action that is symmetric under duality transformation. We also use the equivalence between duality and chiral symmetry in this fermion-like formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Everton M. C. Abreu , Marcelo Hott

Majorana fermions, quantum particles with non-Abelian exchange statistics, are not only of fundamental importance, but also building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Although certain experimental breakthroughs for observing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Rui-Lin Chu , Gui-Bin Liu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Di Xiao , Chuanwei Zhang

The equations defining pure spinors are interpreted as equations of motion formulated on the lightcone of a ten-dimensional, lorentzian, momentum space. Most of the equations for fermion multiplets, usually adopted by particle physics, are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Budinich

The superfluid $^3$He B phase, one of the oldest unconventional fermionic condensates experimentally realized, is recently predicted to support Majorana fermion surface states. Majorana fermion, which is characterized by the equivalence of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-19 S. Murakawa , Y. Wada , Y. Tamura , M. Wasai , M. Saitoh , Y. Aoki , R. Nomura , Y. Okuda , Y. Nagato , M. Yamamoto , S. Higashitani , K. Nagai

To investigate Majorana fermionic excitations of a $p_x+ip_y$ superconductor, the Bogoliubov-de-Gennes equation is solved on a sphere for two cases: (i) a vortex-antivortex pair at opposite poles and (ii) an edge near the south pole and an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-21 Yaacov E. Kraus , Assa Auerbach , H. A. Fertig , Steven H. Simon

In this work, we readdress the Dirac equation in the position-dependent mass (PDM) scenario. Here, one investigates the quantum dynamics of non-Hermitian fermionic particles with effective mass assuming a $(1+1)$-dimension flat spacetime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 F. C. E. Lima , L. N. Monteiro , C. A. S. Almeida