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A topological insulator nanowire, proximity-coupled to an ordinary bulk s-wave superconductor and subject to a longitudinal applied magnetic field, is shown to realize a one-dimensional topological superconductor with unpaired Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 A. Cook , M. Franz

The Majorana fermion can be described by a real wave function with only two phases (0 and {\pi}) which provide a controllable degree of freedom. We propose a strategy to regulate the phase of the chiral Majorana state by coupling with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Ying-Tao Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Jing Wang

Using scattering theory, we investigate interferometers composed of chiral Majorana fermion modes coupled to normal metal leads. We advance an approach in which also the basis states in the normal leads are written in terms of Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jian Li , Geneviève Fleury , Markus Büttiker

We propose a realization of chiral Majorana modes propagating on the hinges of a 3D antiferromagnetic topological insulator, which was recently theoretically predicted and experimentally confirmed in the tetradymite-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Yang Peng , Yong Xu

The list of quantum mechanical systems with non-Abelian statistics has recently been expanded by including generic spin-orbit-coupled semiconductors e.g., InAs) in proximity to a s-wave superconductor. Demonstration of the anyonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-24 Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

Interferometry is a powerful tool for entanglement production and detection in multiterminal mesoscopic systems. Here we propose a setup to produce, manipulate and detect entanglement in the electron-hole degree of freedom by exploiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Luca Chirolli , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia

A Majorana-based qubit can form within the fermion parity subspace of a two-island topological superconductor setup consisting of four Majorana zero modes. We study the relaxation time of this Majorana qubit induced by the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Yang Song , S. Das Sarma

Detecting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in topological superconductors remains challenging, as localized non-topological states can mimic MZM signatures. Here, we propose electron interferometry by non-local transport measurements as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Nadav Drechsler , Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

A new method is introduced for probing Topological Superconductors. The integration of the superconding fermions generates a topological $\mathbf{Chern-Simons}$ sound action . Dislocations induce Majorana zero modes inside the sample,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-27 D. Schmeltzer

A remarkable feature of topological superconductors is the emergence of Majorana fermions in electron systems. Whereas the emergent Majorana fermions share the self-anti-particle property with Majorana fermions in particle physics, they may…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-11 Shingo Kobayashi , Masatoshi Sato

Topological insulator surfaces in proximity to superconductors have been proposed as a way to produce Majorana fermions in condensed matter physics. One of the simplest proposed experiments with such a system is Majorana interferometry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-19 Henrik Schou Røising , Steven H. Simon

We propose a method to create two-dimensional topological superconductors with a heterostructure of ferromagnet (FM), topological insulator (TI) thin film and superconductor, in which the two surfaces of the TI thin film are treated as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-01 James Jun He , Tian Liang , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

We propose a theoretical model to investigate the interplay between altermagnetism and $p$-wave superconductivity, with a particular focus on topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional (2D) $p$-wave superconductor, considering both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Pritam Chatterjee , Vladimir Juričić

We propose to realize a one-dimensional chiral topological superconducting state at the magnetic domain walls stripe of a magnetic topological insulator coupled with a conventional $s$-wave superconductor. The localized Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jing Wang

We study the interference of chiral Majoranas in a magnetic topological insulator thin slab having a grounded section proximity coupled to a superconductor and another section under the influence of top-bottom electrostatic gating. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Javier Osca , Llorenç Serra

We study the proximity effect between an s-wave superconductor and the surface states of a strong topological insulator. The resulting two dimensional state resembles a spinless p_x+ip_y superconductor, but does not break time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Majorana fermions have recently garnered a great attention outside the field of particle physics, in condensed matter physics. In contrast to their particle physics counterparts, Majorana fermions are zero energy, chargeless, spinless,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-25 Rémy Pawlak , Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Ernst Meyer

We study the localization and oscillation properties of the Majorana fermions that arise in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a Zeeman field coupled with a d-wave superconductor. Despite the angular…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-21 Laura Ortiz , Santiago Varona , Oscar Viyuela , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

Majorana fermions can be realized as quasiparticles in topological superconductors, with potential applications in topological quantum computing. Recently, lattices of magnetic adatoms deposited on the surface of s-wave superconductors -…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-15 Stephan Rachel , Eric Mascot , Sagen Cocklin , Matthias Vojta , Dirk K. Morr