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We investigate the admittance of a metallic quantum RC circuit with a spinful single-channel lead or equally with two conducting spin-polarized channels, in which Majorana fermions play a crucial role in the charge dynamics. We address how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Christophe Mora , Karyn Le Hur

We theoretically consider the effect of a spatially periodic modulation of the superconducting order parameter on the formation of Majorana fermions induced by a one-dimensional system with magnetic impurities brought into close proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

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

We show that chiral (nearly) flat band superconductivity can develop and host novel Majorana fermions at a time-reversal pair of symmetry-protected three-band crossing points. Based on symmetry analysis, mean-field study, and superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-11 Yu-Ping Lin

Despite extensive experimental efforts over the past two decades, the quest for Majorana fermions in superconductors remains inconclusive. We propose an experimental method that can conclusively confirm, or rule out, the existence of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 S. Forstner , H. Choi , G. I. Harris , A. Sawadsky , W. P. Bowen , C. G. Baker

We propose two experiments to probe the Majorana fermion edge states that occur at a junction between a superconductor and a magnet deposited on the surface of a topological insulator. Combining two Majorana fermions into a single Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

We investigate the mesoscopic resistor-capacitor circuit consisting of a quantum dot coupled to spatially separated Majorana fermion modes in a chiral topological superconductor. We find substantially enhanced relaxation resistance due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-08 Minchul Lee , Mahn-Soo Choi

We show that the interplay of cyclotron motion and Andreev reflection experienced by massless-Dirac-like charge carriers in topological-insulator surface states generates a Majorana-particle excitation. Based on an envelope-function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Rakesh P. Tiwari , U. Zülicke , C. Bruder

Chiral Majorana edge modes are theoretically proposed to perform braiding operations for the potential quantum computation. Here, we suggest a scheme to regulate trajectories of the chiral Majorana fermion based on a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Qing Yan , Yan-Feng Zhou , Qing-Feng Sun

We demonstrate that an exotically chiral f-wave topological superfluid can be induced in coldfermionic-atom triangular optical lattices through the laser-field-generated effective non-Abelian gauge field, controllable Zeeman fields and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-25 Ningning Hao , Guocai Liu , Ning Wu , Jiangping Hu , Yupeng Wang

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

A two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological superconductor is a fully gapped system possessing a helical Majorana mode on the edges. This helical Majorana edge mode (HMEM), which is a Kramer's pair of two chiral Majorana edge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-09-12 Yingyi Huang , Ching-Kai Chiu

We consider a p-wave superconductor wire coupled to two metallic rings. confined to a one-dimensional wire. At the two interface between the the wire and the metallic rings the pairing order parameter vanishes, as result two zero modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-26 D. Schmeltzer

Inducing superconducting correlations in quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states offers a promising route to realize topological superconductivity with chiral Majorana edge modes. However, the definitive identification of these modes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Linghao Huang , Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

Topological superconductors are exotic gapped phases of matter hosting Majorana mid-gap states on their boundary. In conventional topological superconductors, Majorana in-gap states appear in the form of either localized zero-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Junyeong Ahn , Bohm-Jung Yang

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

The interplay of time-reversal and $n$-fold rotation symmetries ($n=2,4,6$) is known to bring a new class of topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) having $n$ surface Dirac cones due to surface rotation anomaly. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-25 Shingo Kobayashi , Akira Furusaki

We propose an experimental setup of an interferometer for the observation of neutral Majorana fermions on topological insulator - superconductor - ferromagnet junctions. We show that the extended lattice defects naturally present in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Andrej Mesaros , Stefanos Papanikolaou , Jan Zaanen

The Majorana fermions propagating along the edge of a topological superconductor with $p_x+ip_y$ pairing deliver a shot noise power of $\frac{1}{2}\times e^2/h$ per eV of voltage bias. We calculate the full counting statistics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 N. V. Gnezdilov , B. van Heck , M. Diez , Jimmy A. Hutasoit , C. W. J. Beenakker

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