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The Kitaev quantum spin liquid possesses two fractional quasiparticles, itinerant Majorana fermions and localized visons. It provides a promising platform for realizing a Majorana zero mode trapped by a vison excitation. This local mode…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-22 Chihiro Harada , Atsushi Ono , Joji Nasu

We analyse an exactly solvable spin-$1/2$ chain which is a generalised version of Kitaev's honeycomb model. We show that every state of the system has a $2^{N/4}$ fold degeneracy, where $N$ is the number of sites. We present analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Abhinav Saket , S. R. Hassan , R. Shankar

We investigate the topological phases in a coupled one-dimensional p-wave superconducting Fibonacci quasicrystal modeled by the quasiperiodic Kitaev chain. Recent studies have shown that the coupled system can host topological edge modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Koki Mizuno

The interplay of topology and disorder in non-equilibrium quantum systems is an intriguing subject. Here, we look for a suitable platform that enables an in-depth exploration of the topic. To this end, We analyze the topological and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Koustav Roy , Shilpi Roy , Saurabh Basu

A prominent feature of quantum spin liquids is fractionalization of the spin degree of freedom. Fractionalized excitations have their own dynamics in different energy scales, and hence, affect finite-temperature ($T$) properties in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-04 Junki Yoshitake , Joji Nasu , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

The fermionic Kitaev chain is a canonical model featuring topological Majorana zero modes. We report the experimental realization of its bosonic analogue in a nano-optomechanical network where parametric interactions induce two-mode…

The one dimension interacting Kitaev chain at half filling is studied. The symmetry of the Hamiltonian is examined by dual transformations and various physical quantities as functions of the fermion-fermion interaction $U$ are calculated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-08 Zhidan Li , Qiang Han

The honeycomb Kitaev spin model provides a quantum spin liquid in the ground state, where the spin excitations are fractionalized into itinerant and localized Majorana fermions; the former spectrum has a broad continuum ranging up to a high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

We study quantum phase transitions in the honeycomb Kitaev model under a magnetic field, focusing on the topological nature of Majorana fermion excitations. We find a gapless phase between the low-field gapless quantum spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Joji Nasu , Yasuyuki Kato , Yoshitomo Kamiya , Yukitoshi Motome

In quantum mechanics, the spaces of momentum and its conjugate, the position, are related via Fourier transforms and thus the properties are interwoven with their structure. In particular, for lattice systems possessing an underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Karen Rodríguez , Angélica Alejandra Pérez-Losada , Arturo Argüelles

A superconducting wire described by a p-wave pairing and a Kitaev Hamiltonian exhibits Majorana fermions at its edges and is topologically protected by symmetry. We consider two Kitaev wires (chains) coupled by a Coulomb type interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 Loïc Herviou , Christophe Mora , Karyn Le Hur

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

We study the gapped phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model (a $Z_2$ spin liquid) on a lattice with topological defects. We find that some dislocations and string defects carry unpaired Majorana fermions. Physical excitations associated with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 Olga Petrova , Paula Mellado , Oleg Tchernyshyov

We study the possibility to realize Majorana zero mode that's robust and may be easily manipulated for braiding in quantum computing in the ground state of the Kitaev model in this work. To achieve this we first apply a uniform [111]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Lu Yang , Jia-Xing Zhang , Shuang Liang , Wei Chen , Qiang-Hua Wang

Here we revisit the thermodynamics of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid realized on the honeycomb lattice. We address two main questions: First, we investigate whether there are observable thermodynamic signatures of the topological Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-05 Kexin Feng , Natalia B. Perkins , F. J. Burnell

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 discover novel topological effects in the one-dimensional Kitaev chain modified by long-range Hamiltonian deformations in the hopping and pairing terms. This class of models display symmetry-protected topological order measured by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 O. Viyuela , D. Vodola , G. Pupillo , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We study the bulk and edge properties of a driven Kitaev chain, where the driving is performed as instantaneous quenches of the on-site energies. We identify three periodic driving regimes: low period, which is equivalent to a static model,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-08 Tilen Cadez , Rubem Mondaini , Pedro D. Sacramento

Recently, there has been substantial progress in methods of identifying local integrals of motion in interacting integrable models or in systems with many-body localization. We show that one of these approaches can be utilized for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-06 Andrzej Wieckowski , Maciej M. Maska , Marcin Mierzejewski

The study of quasiparticle dynamics is central to understanding non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Direct simulation of such dynamics on quantum hardware has been limited by circuit depth and noise constraints. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-06 Yuxiao Hang , Rosa Di Felice , Aiichiro Nakano , Stephan Haas