English
Related papers

Related papers: Majorana corner pairs in a two-dimensional $s$-wav…

200 papers

Common proposals for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor hybrids require large magnetic fields, which paradoxically suppress the superconducting gap of the parent superconductor.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Benjamin D Woods , Mark Friesen

We show that a single dark soliton can exist in a spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gas with a high spin imbalance, where spin-orbit coupling favors uniform superfluids over non-uniform Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states, leading to dark…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-29 Yong Xu , Li Mao , Biao Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

A concise discussion of spin-1/2 field equations with a special focus on Majorana spinors is presented. The Majorana formalism which describes massive neutral fermions by the help of two-component or four-component spinors is of fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-28 Andreas Aste

A common path to superconducting spintronics, Majorana fermions, and topologically-protected quantum computing relies on spin-triplet superconductivity. While naturally occurring spin-triplet pairing is elusive and even common spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-05 Thomas Vezin , Chenghao Shen , Jong E. Han , Igor Žutić

Chiral superconductors have the ability to host topologically protected Majorana zero modes which have been proposed as future qubits for topological quantum computing. The recently introduced magnet--superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Eric Mascot , Sagen Cocklin , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

A single Majorana Kramers pair hosts only one component of the magnetic multipole. This can be used to determine the bulk Cooper-pair symmetry through surface-sensitive spectroscopic measurements, either by applying a magnetic field or by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-07 Yuki Yamazaki , Shingo Kobayashi , Ai Yamakage

We propose a nanomechanical detection scheme for Majorana bound states, which have been predicted to exist at the edges of a one-dimensional topological superconductor, implemented, for instance, using a semiconducting wire placed on top of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Stefan Walter , Thomas L. Schmidt , Kjetil Børkje , Björn Trauzettel

We show a procedure to classically simulate the Majorana equation in 1+1 dimensions via two one-dimensional photonic crystals. We use a decomposition of the Majorana equation into two Dirac equations and propose a novel approach that uses a…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-05 B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , H. M. Moya-Cessa

We describe how microwave spectroscopy of cold fermions in quasi-1D traps can be used to detect, manipulate, and entangle exotic non-local qbits associated with "Majorana" edge modes. We present different approaches to generate the p-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Erich J. Mueller

We have studied the exotic superfluid phases of degenerated Fermi gases with spin-orbit coupling in a mixed dimensional system, where the motion of atoms are free in the x-direction and the tunneling between nearest tubes in the y-direction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-22 Jing Zhou , Cheng Shi , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Lin Wen , Peng Chen , Deng-Feng Li

We show how a broad class of lattice spin-1/2 models with angular- and distance-dependent couplings can be realized with cold alkali atoms stored in optical or magnetic trap arrays. The effective spin-1/2 is represented by a pair of atomic…

Some important features of the graphene physics can be reproduced by loading ultracold fermionic atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice with honeycomb symmetry and we address here its experimental feasibility. We analyze in great…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Kean Loon Lee , Benoit Gremaud , Rui Han , Berthold-Georg Englert , Christian Miniatura

Massive neutrinos demand to ask whether they are Dirac or Majorana particles. Majorana neutrinos are an irrefutable proof of physics beyond the Standard Model. Neutrinoless double electron capture is not a process but a virtual $\Delta L =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Jose Bernabeu , Alejandro Segarra

Neutrino masses could originate in seesaw models testable at colliders, with light mediators and an approximate lepton number symmetry. The minimal model of this type contains two quasi-degenerate Majorana fermions forming a pseudo-Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Hernández , J. Jones-Pérez , O. Suarez-Navarro

We study the Majorana bound states arising in quasi-one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman magnetic field. Using two different methods, first, the numerical diagonalization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Julien Despres , Ipsita Mandal , Cristina Bena

One-dimensional systems comprising s-wave superconductivity with meticulously tuned magnetism and spin-orbit coupling can realize topologically gapped superconductors hosting Majorana edge modes whose stability is determined by the gap's…

We present a scheme for generating a synthetic magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling via Raman coupling in highly magnetic lanthanide atoms such as dysprosium. Employing these atoms offer several advantages for realizing strongly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-25 Xiaoling Cui , Biao Lian , Tin-Lun Ho , Benjamin L. Lev , Hui Zhai

We present a scenario of neutrino masses and mixing angles. Each generation includes a sterile right handed neutrino in addition to the usual left handed one. We assume a hierarchy in their Dirac masses similar to, but much larger than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 D. Ring

We suggest an experimentally feasible procedure to observe paired and counterflow superfluidity in ultra-cold atom systems. We study the time evolution of one-dimensional mixtures of bosonic atoms in an optical lattice following an abrupt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Anzi Hu , L. Mathey , Eite Tiesinga , Ippei Danshita , Carl J. Williams , Charles W. Clark

We propose to realize second-order topological superconductivity in bilayer spin-polarized Fermi gas superfluids. We focus on systems with intralayer chiral $p$-wave pairing and with tunable interlayer hopping and interlayer interactions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-06 Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan , Wen Huang