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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

In this work, we investigate a quantum-ring coupled to a topological superconductor, hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). We study the MBSs effects over the spectrum and persistent current along the quantum-ring. To obtain physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 F. G. Medina , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , L. Rosales , P. A. Orellana

We propose a set of thermoelectric experiments based on Aharonov-Bohm interferometry to probe Majorana bound states (MBS), which are generated in 2D topological insulators (TI) in the presence of superconducting and ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Colin Benjamin , Ritesh Das

Motivated by the striking promise of quantum computation, Majorana bound states (MBSs) in solid-state systems have attracted wide attention in recent years. In particular, the wavefunction localization of MBSs is a key feature and crucial…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-12-07 Remy Pawlak , Marcin Kisiel , Jelena Klinovaja , Tobias Meier , Shigeki Kawai , Thilo Glatzel , Daniel Loss , Ernst Meyer

We propose an approach for probing Majorana bound states (MBSs) in a nanowire via counting statistics of a nearby charge detector in the form of a single-electron transistor (SET). We consider the impacts on the counting statistics by both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zeng-Zhao Li , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

We study the thermoelectric transport through a single-level quantum dot (QD) coupled to two normal metallic leads and side-coupled to Majorana bound state (MBS). The Coulomb interaction in QD is considered. To investigate only the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Chol Won Ri , Kum Hyok Jong , Song Jin Im , Hak Chol Pak

We theoretically study quantum transport through a quantum dot coupled to Majorana bound states confined at the ends of a topological superconducting nanowire. The topological superconductor forms a loop and is threaded by a tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Levente Máthé , Doru Sticlet , Liviu P. Zârbo

Conventional $n$-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) have protected gapless $(n - 1)$-dimensional boundary states. In contrast to this, second-order TSCs are characterized by topologically protected gapless $(n - 2)$-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Franco Nori

Motivated by recent proposals of Majorana qubits and the read-out of their quantum state we investigate a qubit setup formed by two parallel topological wires shunted by a superconducting bridge. The wires are further coupled to two quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

In this work, we consider a single-level quantum dot (QD) and a Majorana bound state (MBS) placed at the end of a topological superconducting nanowire (TSW). Both are coupled to the continuum and do not have a direct connection between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , P. A. Orellana , E. Vernek

We investigate the quantum transport through a quantum dot coupled with a superconducting (SC) nanowire. By elaborating the differential conductance and current noise spectrum, we focus on the distinct characteristics of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Huajin Zhao , Junrong Wang , Hong Mao , Jinshuang Jin

Domain walls between superconducting and magnetic regions placed on top of a topological insulator support transport channels for Majorana fermions. We propose to study noise correlations in a Hanbury Brown-Twiss type interferometer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Grégory Strübi , Wolfgang Belzig , Mahn-Soo Choi , Christoph Bruder

A hallmark of topological superconductivity is the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS), its chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. The resulting fractionalization of a single electron, stored nonlocally as a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Kasra Sardashti , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

Topologically protected qubits based on nanostructures hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs) hold great promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. We study the transport properties of nanowire networks hosting MBSs with a focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Johan Ekström , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

In this work, we investigate the tunneling characteristics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in vortex lattices based on scanning tunneling microscopy measurement. We find that zero bias conductance does not reach the quantized value owing to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-27 Jiong Mei , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

We investigate theoretically the features of the Majorana hallmark in the presence of Coulomb repulsion between two quantum dots describing a spinless Aharonov-Bohm-like interferometer, where one of the dots is strongly coupled to a Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-14 L. S. Ricco , Y. Marques , F. A. Dessotti , M. de Souza , A. C. Seridonio

We theoretically analyze phonon-assisted tunneling transport in a quantum dot side connected to a Majorana bound state in a topological superconducting nanowire. We investigate the behavior of the current through the dot, for a range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Levente Máthé , Zoltán Kovács-Krausz , Ioan Botiz , Ioan Grosu , Khadija El Anouz , Abderrahim El Allati , Liviu P. Zârbo

Hybrid nanowires combining semiconductor and superconductor materials appear well suited for the creation, detection, and control of Majorana bound states (MBSs). We demonstrate the emergence of MBSs from coalescing Andreev bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 M. T. Deng , S. Vaitiekenas , E. B. Hansen , J. Danon , M. Leijnse , K. Flensberg , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

We investigate the dynamical and transport features of a Kondo dot side-coupled to a topological superconductor (TS). The Majorana fermion states (MFS) formed at the ends of the TS are found to be able to alter the Kondo physics profoundly:…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-24 Minchul Lee , Jong Soo Lim , Heunghwan Khim , Rosa Lopez

We investigate the subgap spectrum and transport properties of the quantum dot placed on interface between metallic and superconducting leads and additionally side-coupled to the edge of topological superconducting (TS) chain, hosting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 J. Baranski , A. Kobialka , T. Domanski