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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

Braiding of Majorana fermions gives accurate topological quantum operations that are intrinsically robust to noise and imperfection, providing a natural method to realize fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Unfortunately, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-27 Dong-Ling Deng , Lu-Ming Duan

Pairing between spinless fermions can generate Majorana fermion excitations that exhibit intriguing properties arising from non-local correlations. But simple models indicate that non-local correlation between Majorana fermions becomes…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-02 Fei Lin , V. W. Scarola

We demonstrate that a thermal metal of Majorana fermions forms in a two-dimensional system of interacting non-Abelian (Ising) anyons in the presence of moderate disorder. This bulk metallic phase arises in the $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-12 Chris R. Laumann , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , David A. Huse , Simon Trebst

We study the Majorana fermions (MFs) in a spin ladder model. We propose and numerically show that the MFs qubit state can be read out by measuring the fusion excitation in the quenched inhomogeneous spin ladders. Moreover, we construct an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Yin-Chen He , Yan Chen

We consider the perturbative computation of the N-point function of chiral densities of massive free fermions at finite temperature within the thermofield dynamics approach. The infinite series in the mass parameter for the N-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 R. L. P. G. Amaral , L. V. Belvedere , K. D. Rothe

Recent experimental breakthrough in realizing spin-orbit (SO) coupling for cold atoms has spurred considerable interest in the physics of 2D SO coupled Fermi superfluids, especially topological Majorana fermions (MFs) which were predicted…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-09-25 Ming Gong , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia , Chuanwei Zhang

Pairing between fermions that attract each other, reveal itself to the macroscopic world in the form of superfluidity. Since the discovery of fermionic superfluidity, intense search has been going on to find various unconventional forms of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-06-12 O. Dutta , M. Lewenstein

A vortex in a model spinless px+ipy superconductor induces two Majorana fermions (MFs), one in the core and the other at the sample edge. In the present work, we show that edge MF can be generated, fused, transported, and braided easily by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-30 Qi-Feng Liang , Zhi Wang , Xiao Hu

By considering the enlarged thermal system including the heat bath, it is shown that this system has supersymmetry which is not broken at finite temperature. The super algebra is constructed and the Hamiltonian is expressed as the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Parthasarathy , R. Sridhar

Parafermion zero modes are generalizations of Majorana modes that underlie comparatively rich non-Abelian-anyon properties. We introduce exact mappings that connect parafermion chains, which can emerge in two-dimensional fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

We consider a real scalar field and a Majorana fermion field to construct a supersymmetric quantum theory of free fermion fields based on the deformed Heisenberg algebra $[x,p]=i\hbar\big(1-\beta p+2\beta^{2}p^{2}\big)$, where $\beta $ is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 Kourosh Nozari , M. Moafi , F. Rezaee Balef

We investigate simple examples of supersymmetry algebras with real and Grassmann parameters. Special attention is payed to the finite supertransformations and their probability interpretation. Furthermore we look for combinations of bosons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Nevena Ilieva , Heide Narnhofer , Walter Thirring

In this tutorial paper, we provide an introduction to the briskly expanding research field of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors. We discuss several aspects of topological superconductivity and the advantages it brings to…

Majorana bound states are interesting candidates for applications in topological quantum computation. Low energy models allowing to grasp their properties are hence conceptually important. The usual scenario in these models is that two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 N. Traverso Ziani , C. Fleckenstein , L. Vigliotti , B. Trauzettel , M. Sassetti

Thermoelectric phenomena resulting from an interplay between particle flows induced by electric fields and temperature inhomogeneities are extremely insightful as a tool providing substantial knowledge about the microscopic structure of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Sergey Smirnov

We theoretically study trapped one-dimensional Fermi gases in the presence of spin-orbit coupling induced by Raman lasers. The gas changes from a conventional (non-topological) superfluid to a topological superfluid as one increases the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-05 Ran Wei , Erich J. Mueller

In recent years, the study of Majorana signatures in quantum transport has become a central focus in condensed matter physics. Here, we present a rigorous and systematic derivation of the fermionic superoperator describing the open quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jia-Lin Pan , Zi-Fan Zhu , Shixuan Chen , Yu Su , Yao Wang

Known Majorana fermions models are considered as promising ones for the purposes of quantum computing robust to decoherence. One of the most expecting but unachieved goals is an effective control for braiding of Majoranas. Another one is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Halina V. Grushevskaya , George Krylov

A Majorana fermion is the single fermionic particle that is its own antiparticle. Its dynamics is determined by the Majorana equation, where the spinor field is by definition equal to its charge-conjugate field. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 F. C. E. Lima , A. R. P. Moreira , L. E. S. Machado , C. A. S. Almeida