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One-dimensional systems obtained as low-energy limits of hybrid superconductor-topological insulator devices provide means of production, transport, and destruction of Majorana bound states (MBSs) by variations of the magnetic flux. When…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-08 Sergei Khlebnikov

We analyse the control of Majorana zero-energy states by mapping the fermionic system onto a chain of Ising spins. Although the topological protection is lost for the Ising system, the mapping provides additional insight into the nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Stefan Backens , Alexander Shnirman , Yuriy Makhlin , Yuval Gefen , Johan E. Mooij , Gerd Schön

We propose a set of thermoelectric experiments based on Aharonov-Bohm interferometry to probe Majorana bound states (MBS), which are generated in 2D topological insulators (TI) in the presence of superconducting and ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Colin Benjamin , Ritesh Das

In terms of Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach, we investigate Majorana bound state (MBS) in vortex of proximity-induced superconductivity on the surface of topological insulator. Mapping out the local density of states (LDOS) of quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 Takuto Kawakami , Xiao Hu

We consider an atomic chain of magnetic impurities on the surface of a spin-orbit coupled superconductor with a dominating $d$-wave and sub-dominating $s$-wave order parameters. In particular, we investigate the properties of the Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-16 Mahdi Mashkoori , Annica Black-Schaffer

We propose using a mobile magnetic domain wall as a host of zero-energy Majorana fermions in a spin-orbit coupled nanowire sandwiched by two ferromagnetic strips and deposited on an $s$-wave superconductor. The ability to control domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Se Kwon Kim , Sumanta Tewari , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

In this work, we study the spin texture of a class of higher-order topological superconductors (HOTSC) and show how it can be used to detect and braid Majorana corner modes (MCMs). This class of HOTSC is composed of two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Xiao-Hong Pan , Xun-Jiang Luo , Jin-Hua Gao , Xin Liu

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

Topologically protected qubits based on nanostructures hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs) hold great promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. We study the transport properties of nanowire networks hosting MBSs with a focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Johan Ekström , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

We simulate the non-Abelian exchange of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) on a quantum computer. Rather than utilizing MZMs at the boundaries of quantum Ising chains, which are typically represented as nonlocal operators on a quantum computer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Foster Sabatino , Matthew Brooks , Charles Tahan , Silas Hoffman

It has been shown previously that a finite-length topological insulator nanowire, proximity-coupled to an ordinary bulk s-wave superconductor and subject to a longitudinal applied magnetic field, realizes a one-dimensional topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-19 A. M. Cook , M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

Noncollinear magnetism opens exciting possibilities to generate topological superconductivity. Here, we focus on helical and cycloidal magnetic textures in magnet-superconductor hybrid structures in a background magnetic field. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-21 Stefan Rex , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) structures represent one of the most promising platforms to realize, control and manipulate Majorana modes using scanning tunneling methods. By depositing either chains or islands of magnetic atoms on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Crawford , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems are a key platform for custom-designed topological superconductors. Ideally, the ends of a one-dimensional MSH structure will host Majorana zero-modes (MZMs), the fundamental unit of topological…

Motivated by the recent experiments that reported the discovery of vortex Majorana bound states (vMBSs) in iron-based superconductors, we establish a portable scheme to unveil the non-Abelian statistics of vMBSs using normal fermionic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-26 Ming Gong , Yijia Wu , Hua Jiang , Jie Liu , X. C. Xie

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana fermion - the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles - has produced the first positive experimental results, but is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-14 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

We investigate the topological properties of spin polarized fermionic polar molecules loaded in a multi-layer structure with the electric dipole moment polarized to the normal direction. When polar molecules are paired by attractive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-01 Ching-Yu Huang , Yen-Ting Lin , Hao Lee , Daw-Wei Wang

Planar Josephson junctions are theoretically predicted to harbor zero-energy Majorana bound states (MBS) in a tunable two-dimensional geometry, at the two ends of the middle metallic channel. Here we show that three distinct topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

Parafermion bound states (PBSs) are generalizations of Majorana bound states (MBSs) and have been predicted to exist as zero-energy eigenstates in proximitized fractional quantum Hall edge states. Similarly to MBSs, a finite distance…

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