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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

We introduce a new type of one-dimensional Kitaev chain with staggered $p$-wave superconducting pairing. We find three physical regimes in this model by tuning the $p$-wave pairing and the chemical potential of the system. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiao-Jue Zhang , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

The topological phases of random Kitaev $\alpha$-chains are labelled by the number of localized edge Majorana Zero Modes. The critical lines between these phases thus correspond to delocalization transitions for these localized edge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-18 Cecile Monthus

One of the key features of the Majorana bound states emerging in topological superconducting (SC) wires is increasing oscillations of their energy under the growth of magnetic field or chemical potential due to concomitant enhancement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 S. V. Aksenov

The Kitaev model belongs to an unconventional class of two-dimensional spin systems characterized by anisotropic, bond-dependent interactions that give rise to Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) states. These exotic phases, marked by the absence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 A. R. Moura , L. V. Santos

In this general article, we map the one-dimensional transverse field quantum Ising model of ferromagnetism to Kitaev's one-dimensional p-wave superconductor, which has its application in fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Mapping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Kartik Chhajed

We propose a mechanism to explain the emergence of an intermediate gapless spin liquid phase in the antiferromagnetic Kitaev model in an externally applied magnetic field, sandwiched between the well-known gapped chiral spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-14 Penghao Zhu , Shi Feng , Kang Wang , Tao Xiang , Nandini Trivedi

A two-dimensional superconductor with spin-triplet p-wave pairing supports chiral or helical Majorana edge modes with a quantized (length $L$-independent) thermal conductance. Sufficiently strong anisotropy removes both chirality and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-26 M. Diez , I. C. Fulga , D. I. Pikulin , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We investigate electron transport inside a ring system composed of a quantum dot (QD) coupled to two Majorana bound states confined at the ends of a one-dimensional topological superconductor nanowire. By tuning the magnetic flux threading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Qi-Bo Zeng , Shu Chen , L. You , Rong Lv

We study analytically a modified dimerized Kitaev chain model under both periodic and open boundary conditions and determine its phase diagram by calculating the topological number and edge correlation functions of Majorana fermions. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Yucheng Wang , Jian-Jian Miao , Shu Chen

We theoretically address spin chain analogs of the Kitaev quantum spin model on the honeycomb lattice. The emergent quantum spin liquid phases or Anderson resonating valence bond (RVB) states can be understood, as an effective model, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-15 Karyn Le Hur , Ariane Soret , Fan Yang

We study the temperature (T) dependence of the dynamical structure factor of the chiral spin liquid phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model. We find, using a recently developed analytical approach, direct signatures of the Majorana modes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Masafumi Udagawa , Roderich Moessner

The Kitaev honeycomb model has attracted significant attention due to its exactly solvable spin-liquid ground state with fractionalized Majorana excitations and its possible materialization in magnetic Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Wen-Han Kao , Johannes Knolle , Gábor B. Halász , Roderich Moessner , Natalia B. Perkins

Identifying experimental probes capable of diagnosing extreme quantum behavior is widely regarded as one of the foremost challenges in modern condensed matter physics. Here, we propose a novel approach for detecting chiral Kitaev spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Shang-Shun Zhang , Gábor B. Halász , Cristian D. Batista

We study a periodically driven one dimensional Kitaev model in the presence of disorder. In the clean limit our model exhibits four topological phases corresponding to the existence or non-existence of edge modes at zero and pi quasienergy.…

Temperature evolution of the spin correlation and excitation spectrum is investigated for a Kitaev model defined on a decorated honeycomb lattice by using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation in the Majorana fermion representation. The ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-17 Joji Nasu , Yukitoshi Motome

Two semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) coupled through a superconductor constitute a minimal realisation of a Kitaev chain with Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Such MZMs can be detected by e.g., tunneling conductance between each QD and normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Miguel Alvarado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Ramón Aguado , Rubén Seoane Souto

The Raman scattering with local optical excitation from the Majorana edge modes of Kitaev spin liquids and topological superconductors is studied theoretically. Although the effective one-dimensional model is common between these two cases,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 James Jun He , Naoto Nagaosa

Majorana fermions, exotic particles with potential applications in quantum computing, have garnered significant interest in condensed matter physics. The Kitaev model serves as a fundamental framework for investigating the emergence of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-02 Abhiram Soori

We investigate how the Kitaev spin liquid state described by Majorana fermions coupled with $Z_2$ gauge fields is affected by non-Kitaev interactions which exist in real candidate materials of the Kitaev magnet. It is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-18 Daichi Takikawa , Satoshi Fujimoto