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We explore possible signatures for observing Majorana Fermions in the tunneling spectroscopy of high-Tc cuprate superconductors. We find that as long as the Rashba spin orbit interaction is in presence either through proximity effect due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun-Ting Kao , Shin-Ming Huang , Chung-Yu Mou , C. C. Tsuei

Recent experiments have produced mounting evidence of Majorana zero modes in nanowire-superconductor hybrids. Signatures of an expected topological phase transition accompanying the onset of these modes nevertheless remain elusive. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Ryan V. Mishmash , David Aasen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Jason Alicea

We study the transport through the Kitaev's chain with incommensurate potentials coupled to two normal leads by the numerical operator method. We find a quantized linear conductance of $e^2/h$, which is independent to the disorder strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 Pei Wang , Shu Chen , Gao Xianlong

A chiral quantum Hall (QH) edge state placed in proximity to an s-wave superconductor experiences induced superconducting correlations. Recent experiments have observed the effect of proximity-coupling in QH edge states through signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Andreas B. Michelsen , Patrik Recher , Bernd Braunecker , Thomas L. Schmidt

Majorana edge modes are candidate elements of topological quantum computing. In this work, we purpose a Floquet engineering approach to generate arbitrarily many non-Hermitian Majorana zero and $\pi$ modes at the edges of a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Longwen Zhou

Artificial Kitaev chains can be used to engineer Majorana bound states (MBSs) in superconductor-semiconductor hybrids. In this work, we realize a two-site Kitaev chain in a two-dimensional electrongas by coupling two quantum dots through a…

Recent experimental advances in the field of cold atoms led to the development of novel techniques for producing synthetic dimensions and synthetic magnetic fields, thus greatly expanding the utility of cold atomic systems for exploring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-28 Or Golan , Eran Sela , Kirill Shtengel

We investigate the Majorana fermions in a semiconductor nanostructure with two wires connected through a ring. The nanostructure is mirror symmetric and in the proximity of a superconductor. The Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 B. Y. Sun , M. W. Wu

We study the edge states for a quantum anomalous Hall system (QAHS) coupled with a spin-singlet s-wave superconductor through the proximity effect, and clarify the topological nature of them. When we consider a superconducting pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-10 Akihiro Ii , Keiji Yada , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka

Non-local quasiparticles in correlated quantum materials can exhibit the proximity effect. For instance, in metal superconductor hybrid systems, the leaking of cooper pairs to the metallic region induces superconducting correlations in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-29 Anurag Banerjee , Louis Haurie , Catherine Pépin

We experimentally demonstrate that Majorana-like bound states (MLBSs) can occur in quasi-one-dimensional metamaterials, analogous to Majorana zero modes (MZM) in the Kitaev chain. In a mechanical spinner ladder system, we observe a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-01 Kai Qian , David J. Apigo , Karmela Padavić , Keun Hyuk Ahn , Smitha Vishveshwara , Camelia Prodan

Chiral Majorana hinge modes are characteristic of a second-order topological superconductor in three dimensions. Here we systematically study pairing symmetry in the point group D_{2h}, and find that the leading pairing channels can be of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-19 Bo Fu , Zi-Ang Hu , Chang-An Li , Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

The Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice is a paradigmatic system known to host a wealth of nontrivial topological phases and Majorana edge modes. In the static case, the Majorana edge modes are nondispersive. When the system is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-19 Paolo Molignini , Albert Gasull Celades , R. Chitra , Wei Chen

Spin-polarized normal-metal wires coupled to a superconductor can host Majorana states at their ends. These decay into the bulk and are protected by a minigap in the spectrum. Previous studies have found that strong coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Thomas Kiendl , Felix von Oppen , Piet W. Brouwer

We investigate the robustness of topological superconductors under the perturbing influence of a finite charge current. To this aim, we introduce a modified Kitaev Hamiltonian parametrically dependent on the quasiparticle momentum induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-22 Alfonso Maiellaro , Francesco Romeo , Fabrizio Illuminati , Roberta Citro

Results are presented for the dynamics of an almost strong edge mode which is the quasi-stable Majorana edge mode occurring in non-integrable spin chains. The dynamics of the edge mode is studied using exact diagonalization, and compared…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Daniel J. Yates , Alexander G. Abanov , Aditi Mitra

One of the problems concerning topological phases in solid-state systems which still remains urgent is an issue of many-body effects. In this study we address it within perturbative theory framework by considering topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 M. S. Shustin , S. V. Aksenov , I. S. Burmistrov

We theoretically study the anomalous proximity effect in a ballistic normal metal/diffusive normal metal/superconductor junction based on Rashba semiconductor nanowire model. The system hosts two distinct phases: a trivial helical phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-20 Eslam Ahmed , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle-hole symmetric, and spatially-separated end modes which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pasquale Marra

We propose a simple model consisting of a magnetic domain wall proximity-coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor for realization of Majorana zero-energy modes. A spin-dependent gauge transformation translates the rotating magnetic profile…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-24 Babak Zare Rameshti , Yaser Hajati , Imam Makhfudz