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Topological superconductivity supports exotic Majorana bound states (MBS) which are chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. With their non-Abelian exchange statistics and fractionalization of a single electron stored nonlocally as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , William Mayer , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

The realization and manipulation of Majorana zero modes have drawn significant attention for their crucial role in enabling topological quantum computation. Conventional approaches to the braiding of Majorana zero modes rely on adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Fei Yu , P. Z. Zhao , Jiangbin Gong

Among the major approaches that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-based platform has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits which store quantum information in a topologically-protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Karsten Flensberg , Felix von Oppen , Ady Stern

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

Topological quantum computations can be implemented with local Majorana zero modes. To simplify manipulations, one can use Majorana edge states in gapped two-dimensional systems. Here we demonstrate how this approach can be used for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Igor Timoshuk , Yuriy Makhlin

Majorana-based quantum gates are not complete for performing universal topological quantum computation while Fibonacci-based gates are difficult to be realized electronically and hardly coincide with the conventional quantum circuit models.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-07 Ye-Min Zhan , Yu-Ge Chen , Bin Chen , Ziqiang Wang , Yue Yu , Xi Luo

Surface codes offer a very promising avenue towards fault-tolerant quantum computation. We argue that two-dimensional interacting networks of Majorana bound states in topological superconductor/semiconductor heterostructures hold several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 S. Plugge , L. A. Landau , E. Sela , A. Altland , K. Flensberg , R. Egger

Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum operations which could in principle significantly reduce qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu , Michael Wimmer , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

One-dimensional topological superconductors treated at the mean-field level host zero-energy edge Majorana modes, which encode topological degeneracy of their ground states. Geometric manipulations (braiding) of multiple wires can be used…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-19 Ivar Martin , Kartiek Agarwal

We propose a platform for universal quantum computation that uses conventional $s$-wave superconducting leads to address a topological qubit stored in spatially separated Majorana bound states in a multi-terminal topological superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Constantin Schrade , Liang Fu

We describe Majorana edge states of a semi-infinite wire using the complex band structure approach. In this method the edge state at a given energy is built as a superposition of evanescent waves. It is shown that the superposition can not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Llorenç Serra

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

In topological quantum computing, unitary operations on qubits are performed by adiabatic braiding of non-Abelian quasiparticles, such as Majorana zero modes, and are protected from local environmental perturbations. In the adiabatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Armin Rahmani , Babak Seradjeh , Marcel Franz

We theoretically consider the effect of a spatially periodic modulation of the superconducting order parameter on the formation of Majorana fermions induced by a one-dimensional system with magnetic impurities brought into close proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Just like insulators can host topological Dirac states at their edges, superconductors can also exhibit topological phases characterized by Majorana edge states. Remarkable zero-energy states have been recently observed at the two ends of…

Majorana zero modes are expected to arise in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems, with potential topological quantum computing applications. One limitation of this approach is the need for a relatively high external magnetic field…

We study a Majorana-carrying quantum wire, driven into a trivial phase by breaking the spatial inversion symmetry with a tilted external magnetic field. Interestingly, we predict that a supercurrent applied in the proximate superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Xiong-Jun Liu , Alejandro M. Lobos

Theoretical studies have shown that Majorana bound states can be induced at the ends of a one dimensional wire, a phenomenon possible due to the interplay between s-wave superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling, and an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Aksel Kobiałka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Andrzej Ptok

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

Proximity-induced superconductivity in low-dimensional systems offers a powerful pathway to engineer topological superconducting phases in, otherwise, non-superconducting systems. These exotic phases are of fundamental and technological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 M. García Olmos , Y. Baba , R. A. Molina , M. Amado