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Semiconducting nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the proximity with a superconductor and under a strong Zeeman field can potentially manifest Majorana zero modes at their edges and are a topical candidate for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Arnav Arora , Abhishek Kejriwal , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Zero-bias charge conductance peak (ZBCCP) is a significant symbol of Majorana zero modes (MZMs). The proximity effect of s-wave superconductor is usually demanded in the fabrication of MZMs. So in transport experiments, the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

Majorana 'zero-modes' are expected to be immune to decoherence. The primary method for their characterization in a 1D topological superconductor, is measuring the tunneling current into the edge of the superconductor. Presently, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Anna Grivnin , Ella Bor , Moty Heiblum , Yuval Oreg , Hadas Shtrikman

A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba coupling and in proximity of a superconductor hosts Majorana edge modes. An array of such nanowires with inter-wire coupling gives an approximate description of a two-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Deepti Rana , Goutam Sheet

Electron transport through [normal metal]-[quantum dot]-[topological superconductor] junction is studied and reveals interlacing physics of Kondo correlations with two Majorana fermions bound state residing on the opposite edges of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Anatoly Golub , Igor Kuzmenko , Yshai Avishai

We investigate the Majorana fermions in a $T$-shaped semiconductor nanostructure with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic field in the proximity of an s-wave superconductor. It is found that the properties of the low-energy modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

A number of recent works have discussed the issue of spin polarization of a Majorana zero mode in condensed matter systems. Here we show that the spin polarization density of a Majorana zero mode, computed as an average of the spin operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

A recent experiment [Mourik et al., Science 336, 1003 (2012)] on InSb quantum wires provides possible evidence for the realization of a topological superconducting phase and the formation of Majorana bound states. Motivated by this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Falko Pientka , Graham Kells , Alessandro Romito , Piet W. Brouwer , Felix von Oppen

We show that a one dimensional ultra-cold Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions exhibits a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in spite of total number conservation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-09 Jonathan Ruhman , Ehud Altman

We investigate transport properties through a crossbar-shaped structure formed by a quantum dot (QD) coupled to two normal leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs). Each TSC hosts Majorana bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana

We present a comprehensive investigation into the emergence of interface-bound states, particularly Majorana zero modes (MZMs), in a lateral heterostructure composed of two three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs), Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yoonkang Kim

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 theoretically study the transport properties in the T-shaped double-quantum-dot structure, by introducing the Majorana bound state (MBS) to couple to the dot in the main channel. It is found that the side-coupled dot governs the effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Wei-Jiang Gong , Yu-Hang Xue , Xiao-Qi Wang , Lian-Lian Zhang , Guang-Yu Yi

We theoretically investigate electronic transport through a junction where a quantum dot (QD) is tunnel coupled on both sides to semiconductor nanowires with strong spin-orbit interaction and proximity-induced superconductivity. The results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-09 Guang-Yao Huang , Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg , Hongqi Xu

We study the differential conductance for charge tunneling into a semiconductor wire--superconductor hybrid structure, which is actively investigated as a possible scheme for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 John Stenger , Tudor D. Stanescu

Altermagnetism provides new routes to realize Majorana zero modes with vanishing net magnetization. We consider a recently proposed heterostructure consisting of a semiconducting wire on top of an altermagnet and with proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Andreas Hadjipaschalis , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano

In this work, we investigate the conductance and current correlations properties of a quantum topological inteferometer consisting of a QD coupled to two Majorana Bound States (MBSs) confined at both ends of a 1D topological superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Ana M. Calle , Pedro A. Orellana , Jorge A. Otalora

Electron transport through the T-shaped quantum-dot (QD) structure is theoretically investigated, by considering a Majorana zero mode coupled to the terminal QD. It is found that in the double-QD case, the presence of the Majorana zero mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Wei-Jiang Gong , Shu-Feng Zhang , Zhi-Chao Li , Guangyu Yi , Yi-Song Zheng

We investigate theoretically the features of the Majorana hallmark in the presence of Coulomb repulsion between two quantum dots describing a spinless Aharonov-Bohm-like interferometer, where one of the dots is strongly coupled to a Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-14 L. S. Ricco , Y. Marques , F. A. Dessotti , M. de Souza , A. C. Seridonio

Majorana zero modes can appear at the wire ends of a 1D topological superconductor and manifest themselves as a quantized zero-bias conductance peak in the tunneling spectroscopy of normal-superconductor junctions. However, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Haining Pan , Chun-Xiao Liu , Michael Wimmer , Sankar Das Sarma