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We derive exact strong zero mode (ESZM) operators for integrable spin-S chains with open boundary conditions and a boundary field. Their locality properties are generally weaker than in the previously known cases, but they still imply…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-30 Fabian H. L. Essler , Paul Fendley , Eric Vernier

Unpaired Majorana zero-modes are central to topological quantum computation schemes as building blocks of topological qubits, and are therefore under intense experimental and theoretical investigation. Their generalizations to parafermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Shu-Wei Liu , Li-kun Shi , Ashley M. Cook

As the condensed matter analog of Majorana fermion, the Majorana zero-mode is well known as a building block of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. This review focuses on the recent progress of Majorana experiments, especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ji-Bang Fu , Bin Li , Xin-Fang Zhang , Guang-Zheng Yu , Guang-Yao Huang , Ming-Tang Deng

We study a system of interacting spinless fermions in one dimension which, in the absence of interactions, reduces to the Kitaev chain [A. Yu Kitaev, Phys.-Usp. \textbf{44}, 131 (2001)]. In the non-interacting case, a signal of topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-22 Hosho Katsura , Dirk Schuricht , Masahiro Takahashi

Based on the many-particle-number-state treatment for transport through a pair of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) which are coupled to the leads via two quantum dots, we identify that the reason for zero cross correlation of currents at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Wei Feng , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

Spatial separation of Majorana zero modes distinguishes trivial from topological midgap states and is key to topological protection in quantum computing applications. Although signatures of Majorana zero modes in tunneling spectroscopy have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 M. T. Deng , S. Vaitiekénas , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , R. Aguado , C. M. Marcus

Focusing on examples of Majorana zero modes on the corners of a two-dimensional lattice, we introduce a method to find parameter regions where the Majorana modes are perfectly localized on a single site. Such a limit allows us to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Prathyush P. Poduval , Thomas L. Schmidt , Andreas Haller

Majorana bound states (MBSs) located at the ends of a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire are only true zero modes if their characteristic localization length is much smaller than the nanowire length, $\xi_M\ll L$. Otherwise, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Carlos Payá , Pablo San-Jose , Carlos J. Sánchez Martínez , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada

Numerical calculations for Majorana zero modes on a one-dimensional chain are performed using the technique of block diagonalization for general parameter settings. It is found that Majorana zero modes occur near the ends of the chain and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-20 Lei Chen , W. LiMing , Jia-Hui Huang

Several scenarios for realization of edge Majorana modes in quantum chain systems: spin chains, chains of Josephson junctions, and chains of coupled cavities in quantum optics, are considered. For all these systems excitations can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 A. A. Zvyagin

It is well known that non-Abelian Majorana zero modes (MZM) harbor at vortex cores in a $p_{x}+\text{i}p_{y}$ topological superconductor, which can be realized in a 2D spin-orbit coupled system with a single Fermi surface and by proximity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-31 Cheung Chan , Lin Zhang , Ting Fung Jeffrey Poon , Ying-Ping He , Yan-Qi Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Majorana Zero Modes (MZMs) are prime candidates for robust topological quantum bits, holding a great promise for quantum computing. Semiconducting nanowires with strong spin orbit coupling offers a promising platform to harness…

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

We study a dimerised spin chain with biaxial magnetic interacting ions in the presence of an externally induced three-site interactions out of equilibrium. In the general case, the three-site interactions play a role in renormalizing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-06 Wen-Long You , Cheng-Jie Zhang , Weihai Ni , Ming Gong , Andrzej M. Oleś

We propose a novel realization for a topologically superconducting phase hosting Majorana zero-modes on the basis of quantum spin Hall systems. Remarkably, our proposal is completely free of ferromagnets. Instead, we confine helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , A. Calzona , M. Sassetti , B. Trauzettel

We demonstrate that partially overlapping Majorana bound states (MBSs) represent a generic low-energy feature that emerges in non-homogeneous semiconductor nanowires coupled to superconductors in the presence of a Zeeman field. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Christopher Moore , Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

In this work, we perform a systematic investigation of the correlated topological superconductors (TSCs), especially their non-trivial Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Compared to the non-interacting MZMs, the emerged correlated MZMs become…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-07 Ziyue Qi , Hongming Weng , Kun Jiang

We study the possibility to realize Majorana zero mode that's robust and may be easily manipulated for braiding in quantum computing in the ground state of the Kitaev model in this work. To achieve this we first apply a uniform [111]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Lu Yang , Jia-Xing Zhang , Shuang Liang , Wei Chen , Qiang-Hua Wang

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are bound midgap topological excitations at the ends of a 1D topological superconductor, which must come in pairs. If the two MZMs in the pair are sufficiently well-separated by a distance much larger than their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

In quantum mechanics, the spaces of momentum and its conjugate, the position, are related via Fourier transforms and thus the properties are interwoven with their structure. In particular, for lattice systems possessing an underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Karen Rodríguez , Angélica Alejandra Pérez-Losada , Arturo Argüelles