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Low temperature zero-bias conductance through two side-coupled quantum dots is investigated using Wilson's numerical renormalization group technique. A low-temperature phase diagram is computed. Near the particle-hole symmetric point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Bonca , R. Zitko

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

An array of quantum wires is a natural starting point in realizing two-dimensional topological phases. We study a system of weakly coupled quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, proximity coupled to a conventional s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Inbar Seroussi , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

We analyze dynamical transport properties of a hybrid nanostructure, comprising a correlated quantum dot embedded between the source and drain electrodes, which are subject to an ac voltage, focusing on signatures imprinted on the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Tadeusz Domański , Ireneusz Weymann

We demonstrate that nonequilibrium nanoscopic systems with Majorana zero modes admit special kind of universality which cannot be classified as of strictly transport or strictly thermodynamic nature. To reveal such kind of Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 Sergey Smirnov

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

We investigate electron transport inside a ring system composed of a quantum dot (QD) coupled to two Majorana bound states confined at the ends of a one-dimensional topological superconductor nanowire. By tuning the magnetic flux threading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Qi-Bo Zeng , Shu Chen , L. You , Rong Lv

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

The transport properties of a double quantum-dot device with one of the dots coupled to perfect conductors are analyzed using the numerical renormalization group technique and slave-boson mean-field theory. The coupling between the dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , D. R. Grempel

We present a theoretical analysis of quasiparticle poisoning in Coulomb-blockaded Majorana fermion systems tunnel-coupled to normal-conducting leads. Taking into account finite-energy quasiparticles, we derive the effective low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 S. Plugge , A. Zazunov , E. Eriksson , A. M. Tsvelik , R. Egger

Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

Although the appearance of vortex-localized states with zero energy in first-order topological superconductors is well known, their possibility to form in the higher-order topological phase of 2D systems has not been completely uncovered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-06 A. D. Fedoseev , A. O. Zlotnikov

We study a one-dimensional (1D) interacting electronic liquid coupled to a 1D array of classical magnetic moments and to a superconductor. We show that at low energy and temperature the magnetic moments and the electrons become strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Bernd Braunecker , Pascal Simon

We consider an interacting nanowire/superconductor heterostructure attached to metallic leads. The device is described by an unusual low-energy model involving spin-1 conduction electrons coupled to a nonlocal spin-1/2 Kondo impurity built…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-11 Martin R. Galpin , Andrew K. Mitchell , Jesada Temaismithi , David E. Logan , Benjamin Béri , Nigel R. Cooper

We investigate the transport properties through a nanostructure composed of parallel double quantum dots coupled to two normal contacts. Additionally, each quantum dot is connected to a topological superconducting nanowire, hosting Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 A. P. Garrido , D. Zambrano , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , P. A. Orellana

We derive a solvable resonant-level type model, to describe an impurity spin coupled to zero-energy bound states localized at the edge of a one dimensional d-wave superconductor. This results in a two-channel Kondo effect with a quite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Karyn Le Hur

We study Kondo screening obtained by coupling Majorana bound states, located on a topological superconducting island, to interacting electronic reservoirs. At the charge degeneracy points of the island, we formulate an exact mapping onto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Loïc Herviou , Karyn Le Hur , Christophe Mora

We study the electric and thermoelectric transport properties of correlated quantum dots coupled to two ferromagnetic leads and one superconducting electrode. Transport through such hybrid devices depends on the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Krzysztof P. Wojcik , Ireneusz Weymann

Spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot side attached to a topological superconductor and coupled to a pair of normal leads is discussed in Coulomb and Kondo regimes. For discussion of Coulomb range equation of motion method with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński , G. Cuniberti

We study Majorana devices featuring a competition between superconductivity and multi-channel Kondo physics. Our proposal extends previous work on single-channel Kondo systems to a topologically nontrivial setting of non-Fermi liquid type,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 A. Zazunov , F. Buccheri , P. Sodano , R. Egger