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The discovery of quantum spin Hall materials with huge bulk gaps in experiment, such as bismuthene, provides a versatile platform for topological devices. We propose a topological quantum dot (QD) device in bismuthene ribbon in which two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jiaojiao Zhou , Tong Zhou , Shu-guang Cheng , Hua Jiang , Zhongqin Yang

Majorana zero modes are non-Abelian quasiparticles that emerge on the edges of topological phases of superconductors. Evidence of their presence has been reported in transport measurements on engineered superconducting-based nanostructures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Dganit Meidan , Tal Gur , Alessandro Romito

By considering Majorana zero modes to laterally couple to the quantum dot, we evaluate the thermoelectric effect in one single-dot system. The calculation results show that if one Majorana zero mode couples to the dot, the thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Xiao-Qi Wang , Shu-Feng Zhang , Hu Han , Guang-Yu Yi , Wei-Jiang Gong

We introduce the concept of spinful many-particle Majorana modes with local odd operator products, thereby preserving their local statistics. We consider a superconductor-double-quantum-dot system where these modes can arise with negligible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Anthony R. Wright , Menno Veldhorst

Majorana fermions (MFs) are predicted to occur as zero-energy bound states in semiconductor nanowire-superconductor structures. However, in the presence of disorder or smooth confining potentials, these structures can also host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 T. D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

Hybrid nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity in the topological regime host Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at their ends, and networks of such structures can produce topologically protected qubits. In a double-island geometry where…

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

Two-dimensional semiconductors have attracted considerable interest for integration into emerging quantum photonic networks. Strain engineering of monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (ML-TMDs) enables the tuning of light-matter…

The study of topological states has become an important topic in both solid-state systems and artificial structures such as photonic crystals and phononic crystals. Among them, Majorana zero modes, which exhibit nontrivial braiding process,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Qiyun Ma , Hailong He , Meng Xiao , Zhengyou Liu

We study the optical properties of a hybrid device composed by a quantum dot (QD) resonantly coupled to a photonic mode of an optical microcavity and a Majorana nanowire: a topological superconducting segment hosting Majorana bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 L. S. Ricco , V. K. Kozin , A. C. Seridonio , I. A. Shelykh

We propose a novel scheme for performing Majorana zero mode (MZM) braiding utilizing cotunneling processes in a three-MZM system incorporating reference arms. This approach relies on the interference between cotunneling paths through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Zhen Chen , Yijia Wu , X. C. Xie

We consider the correlated parallel transport through two quantum dots which are tunnel-coupled to the ends of a semiconductor nanowire where the Majorana bound states (MBSs) may emerge under proper conditions. In terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Peiyue Wang , Yunshan Cao , Ming Gong , Gang Xiong , Xin-Qi Li

We show the appearance of an unconventional Majorana zero mode whose wave function splits into multiple parts located at different ends of different topological superconductors, hereinafter referred to as a multi-locational Majorana zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

Realizing Majorana modes in topological superconductors, i.e., the condensed-matter counterpart of Majorana fermions in particle physics, may lead to a major advance in the field of topologically-protected quantum computation. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

We propose molecular magnets as a platform to emulate Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Using a quantum chemistry approach, we identify several candidates and predict a Co trimer to have sufficient properties to host MZMs. Parameters of the…

We propose a theoretical approach based on an interferometer composed by two quantum dots asymmetrically coupled to isolated Majorana quasiparticles (MQPs), lying on the edges of two topological Kitaev chains, respectively via couplings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 F. A. Dessotti , L. S. Ricco , Y. Marques , L. H. Guessi , M. Yoshida , M. S. Figueira , M. de Souza , Pasquale Sodano , A. C. Seridonio

Topology-related ideas might lead to noise-resilient quantum computing. For example, it is expected that the slow spatial exchange (`braiding') of Majorana zero modes in superconductors yields quantum gates that are robust against disorder.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Péter Boross , András Pályi

Pure quantum states can be stabilized in open quantum systems subject to external driving forces and dissipation by environmental modes. We show that driven dissipative (DD) Majorana devices offer key advantages for stabilizing degenerate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 M. Gau , R. Egger , A. Zazunov , Y. Gefen

We theoretically study scanning gate microscopy of a superconductor-proximitized semiconducting wire focusing on the potential for detection of Majorana bound states. We exploit the possibility to create a local potential perturbation by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 S. Maji , M. P. Nowak

Qubits based on Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in superconductor-semiconductor nanowires have attracted intense interest due to claims that their error rates are suppressed exponentially with increasing nanowire length or decreasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Abhijeet Alase , Marcus C. Goffage , Maja C. Cassidy , Susan N. Coppersmith