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Topological crystalline superconductors have attracted rapidly rising attention due to the possibility of higher-order phases, which support Majorana modes on boundaries in $d-2$ or lower dimensions. However, although the classification and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-24 Sheng-Jie Huang , Yi-Ting Hsu

The unambiguous identification of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) is one of the most outstanding problems of condensed matter physics. Thermal transport provides a detection tool that is sensitive to these chargeless quasiparticles. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Raffael L. Klees , Daniel Gresta , Jonathan Sturm , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Nonequilibrium states of a nanoscopic system may be achieved by both applying a bias voltage $V$ to its contacts and producing a difference $\Delta T$ in their temperatures. Then the total current results from two competing flows, induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Sergey Smirnov

We investigate the equilibrium and non-equilibrium transport through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime, embedded between a normal metal and a topological superconductor supporting Majorana bound states at its end points. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Razvan Chirla , I. V. Dinu , V. Moldoveanu , Catalin Pascu Moca

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

We develop a theory of the nonlocal conductance $G_{RL}(V)$ for a disordered Majorana wire tuned near the topological transition critical point. Under these conditions, the antisymmetric part of the differential conductance, $[G_{RL}(V) -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Vladislav D. Kurilovich , William S. Cole , Roman M. Lutchyn , Leonid I. Glazman

Existing studies via shot noise calculation conclude that the cross correlation between the currents in the two leads connected by a pair of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) vanishes when their coupling energy $\epsilon_M\to 0$. Motivated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Lupei Qin , Wei Feng , Xin-Qi Li

We investigate the collisions of Majorana zero modes, which are presented as inter-soliton collisional events in fermionic superfluids with spin-orbit coupling. Our results demonstrate that, the zero energy splitting, induced by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-27 Liang-Liang Wang , Wenjun Shao , Jian Li

We investigate gradual development of the quasiparticle states in two quantum dots attached to opposite sides of the topological superconducting nanowire, hosting the boundary modes. Specifically, we explore the non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 R. Taranko , K. Wrześniewski , I. Weymann , T. Domański

We investigate the one-dimensional $p$-wave superconducting model with periodically modulated hopping and show that under time-reversal symmetry, the number of the Majorana zero modes (MZMs) strongly depends on the modulation period. If the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-25 Yi Gao , Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Ran Huang

There has been experimental evidence for the Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in solid state systems, which are building blocks for potential topological quantum computing. It is important to design devices, in which MZMs are easy to manipulate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-20 Chuang Li , Xun-Jiang Luo , Li Chen , Dong E. Liu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Xin Liu

We study Majorana chain with the shortest possible interaction term and in the presence of hoping alternation. When formulated in terms of spins the model corresponds to the transverse field Ising model with nearest-neighbor transverse and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-14 Natalia Chepiga , Nicolas Laflorencie

We consider theoretically the physics of bulk topological superconductivity accompanied by boundary non-Abelian Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid systems consisting of finite wires in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu

We summarize the key ingredients required for universal topological quantum computation using Majorana zero modes in networks of topological superconductor nanowires. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of both sparse and dense logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Philipp Frey , Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Stephan Rachel

Majorana zero modes (MZM-s) occurring at the edges of a 1D, p-wave, spinless superconductor, in absence of fluctuations of the phase of the superconducting order parameter, are quintessential examples of topologically-protected zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Ananda Roy , Johannes Hauschild , Frank Pollmann

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 the manipulation of Majorana zero modes in a thin disk made from a $p$-wave superconductor in order to understand their use as a building block for topological quantum computers. We analyze the second-order topological corner modes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Liu Yang , Alessandro Principi , Niels R. Walet

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticles that hold promise as building blocks for topological quantum computing. However, the litmus test for their detection, the observation of exotic non-abelian statistics revealed by braiding, has so far…

We introduce a class of superconductors termed "quantized quadrupole superconductors" that support Majorana corner modes according to the bulk-corner correspondence, distinct from previous works on the second-order topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Yun-Mei Li , Yongwei Huang , Kai Chang

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
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