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Certain one-dimensional Fermi systems have an energy gap in the bulk spectrum while boundary states are described by one Majorana operator per boundary point. A finite system of length $L$ possesses two ground states with an energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei Kitaev

The boundary modes of one dimensional quantum systems can play host to a variety of remarkable phenomena. They can be used to describe the physics of impurities in higher dimensional systems, such as the ubiquitous Kondo effect or can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-24 Colin Rylands

We study Majorana zero modes properties in cylindrical cross-section semiconductor quantum wires based on the $k \cdot p$ theory and a discretized lattice model. Within this model, the influence of disorder potentials in the wire and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Chao Lei , Guru Khalsa , Jiangfeng Du , Allan H. MacDonald

Motivated by recent experiments we consider transport across an interacting magnetic impurity coupled to the Majorana zero mode (MZM) observed at the boundary of a topological superconductor (SC). In the presence of a finite tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Daniele Guerci , Andrea Nava

Mechanical strain can generate a pseudo-magnetic field, and hence Landau levels (LL), for low energy excitations of quantum matter in two dimensions. We study the collective state of the fractionalised Majorana fermions arising from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-28 Adhip Agarwala , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Johannes Knolle , Roderich Moessner

We analyze the spectral and transport properties of ballistic quasi one-dimensional systems in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and in-plane agnetic fields. Our results demonstrate that Rashba precession and intersubband coupling must be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We propose a mechanism to explain the emergence of an intermediate gapless spin liquid phase in the antiferromagnetic Kitaev model in an externally applied magnetic field, sandwiched between the well-known gapped chiral spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-14 Penghao Zhu , Shi Feng , Kang Wang , Tao Xiang , Nandini Trivedi

We calculate the topological boundary modes found for quantum wire for a quantum ring. For the symmetric ring we find analytical solutions for two quasi-particles identifiable as the Majorana states and for asymmetric ring, we have also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Yue Yu , Kwok Yip Szeto

An existence of predominant symmetrical spin configuration (spin polarised phase) and "diluted" density of states (pseudo-gap) in a layer under the Fermi level in a quantum wire is predicted. The condition of cross-over from non-polarised…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V'yurkov , A. Vetrov

We study theoretically the low-energy hole states of Ge/Si core/shell nanowires. The low-energy valence band is quasidegenerate, formed by two doublets of different orbital angular momenta, and can be controlled via the relative shell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Christoph Kloeffel , Mircea Trif , Daniel Loss

There has been recent interest in superconductor-magnetic insulator hybrid Rashba nanowire setups for potentially hosting Majorana zero modes at smaller external Zeeman fields. Using the non-equilibrium Green's function technique, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Roshni Singh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We present a theory of magnetic response in a finite-size two-dimensional superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The interplay between the latter and an in-plane Zeeman field leads on the one hand to an out-of-plane spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-20 F. Sebastián Bergeret , Ilya V. Tokatly

The remarkable properties and potential applications of Majorana fermions have led to considerable efforts in recent years to realize topological matters that host these excitations. For a number-conserving system, there have been a few…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-10 X. Y. Yin , Tin-Lun Ho , Xiaoling Cui

Spin-spin correlation function response in the low electronic density regime and externally applied electric field is evaluated for 2D metallic crystals under Rashba-type coupling, fixed number of particles and two-fold energy band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-06 H. Vivas

We develop a simple model of surface states for topological insulators, developing matching relations for states on surfaces of different orientations. The model allows one to write simple Dirac Hamiltonians for each surface, and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We investigate creation, manipulation, and steering of entanglement in spin chains from the viewpoint of quantum communication between distant parties. We demonstrate how global parametric driving of the spin-spin coupling and/or local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 F. Galve , D. Zueco , G. M. Reuther , S. Kohler , P. Hänggi

Spin chains proximitized with superconducting condensates have emerged as one of the most promising platforms for the realization of Majorana modes. Here, we craft diluted spin chains atom-by-atom following seminal theoretical proposal…

We study two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric nodal superconductors under Zeeman field and clarify the field angle dependence of topological properties. It has been shown that the nodal excitation acquires an excitation gap due to the Zeeman…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-02 Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

A spin-orbit coupled quantum wire, with one end proximate to an s-wave superconductor, can become a topological superconductor, with a Majorana mode localized at each end of the superconducting region. It was recently shown that coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-26 Yashar Komijani , Ian Affleck

In this paper we explore the spin-orbit-induced bound state and molecular signature of the degenerate Fermi gas in a narrow Feshbach resonance based on a generalized two-channel model. Without the atom-atom interactions, only one bound…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-10 Kuang Zhang , Gang Chen , Suotang Jia