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We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We analyze theoretically two different setups for s-wave superconductivity (SC) proximitized $j=3/2$ particles in Luttinger materials that are able to host Majorana bound states (MBSs). First, we consider a one-dimensional SC wire with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-24 Julian Benedikt Mayer , Miguel A. Sierra , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We present a comprehensive investigation into the emergence of interface-bound states, particularly Majorana zero modes (MZMs), in a lateral heterostructure composed of two three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs), Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yoonkang Kim

In this tutorial paper, we provide an introduction to the briskly expanding research field of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors. We discuss several aspects of topological superconductivity and the advantages it brings to…

We show that Majorana fermions (MFs) exist in two- and three-dimensional (2D,3D) fermionic optical lattices with strictly 1D spin-orbit coupling (SOC) which has already been realized in ex- periments. For a quasi-1D topological BCS…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-18 Chunlei Qu , Ming Gong , Yong Xu , Sumanta Tewari , Chuanwei Zhang

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 consider a quantum wire, containing two Majorana bound states (MBS) at its ends that are coupled to a current lead on one side and to a quantum dot (QD) on the other side. Using the method of full counting statistics we calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Alexander Schuray , Luzie Weithofer , Patrik Recher

We propose to realize Majorana edge and corner states in electric circuits. First, we simulate the Kitaev model by an LC electric circuit and the $p_{x}+ip_{y}$ model by an LC circuit together with operational amplifiers. Zero-energy edge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-17 Motohiko Ezawa

We study theoretically a one-dimensional dimerized Kitaev superconductor model which belongs to BDI class with time-reversal, particle-hole, and chiral symmetries. There are two sources of the particle-hole symmetry, i.e., the sublattice…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-11 Ryohei Wakatsuki , Motohiko Ezawa , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

One-dimensional topological superconductors treated at the mean-field level host zero-energy edge Majorana modes, which encode topological degeneracy of their ground states. Geometric manipulations (braiding) of multiple wires can be used…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-19 Ivar Martin , Kartiek Agarwal

We propose to realize a one-dimensional chiral topological superconducting state at the magnetic domain walls stripe of a magnetic topological insulator coupled with a conventional $s$-wave superconductor. The localized Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jing Wang

We investigate the Majorana fermions in a $T$-shaped semiconductor nanostructure with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic field in the proximity of an s-wave superconductor. It is found that the properties of the low-energy modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

Helical spin chains, consisting of magnetic (ad-)atoms, on the surface of bulk superconductors are predicted to host Majorana bound states (MBSs) at the ends of the chain. Here, we investigate the prevalence of trivial zero-energy bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Richard Hess , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We show that the existence of a Majorana bound state at one end of a Kitaev chain is unambiguously signaled by observable quantities in a nearby Kitaev ring. When the Kitaev chain is in the topological phase, the band structure of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-05 Mariana Malard , David S. Brandão

We present a new platform for creating Majorana bound states from 2D gapless superconducting state in spin-helical systems under the in-plane Zeeman field. Topological 1D channels are formed by quantum confinement of quasiparticles via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Michał Papaj , Liang Fu

We present two band models for free fermion with charge conjugation symmetry in three dimensions. Without time reversal symmetry (TRS), the weak pairing gapless $A$-phase is a Majorana fermion $p_x+ip_y$ wave FFLO state while the strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Xi Luo , Feng Tang , Xiangang Wan , Yue Yu

We propose a closed form for the statistical distribution of non-interacting Majorana fermions at low temperature. Majorana particles often appear in the contemporary many-body literature in the Kitaev, Fu-Kane, or Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-09 Joshuah T. Heath , Kevin S. Bedell

In semiconducting-superconducting hybrid devices, Andreev bound states (ABSs) can mediate the coupling between quantum dots (QDs), allowing for the realisation of artificial Kitaev chains. In order to engineer Majorana bound states (MBSs)…

We study a realization of a 1d chain of Majorana bound states at the interfaces between alternating ferromagnetic and superconducting regions at a quantum spin Hall insulator edge. In the limit of well separated Majoranas, the system can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 V. Shivamoggi , G. Refael , J. E. Moore

The unambiguous identification of topological Majorana-bound states (MBSs) in superconducting hybrid systems is hindered by trivial low-energy excitations, especially partially separated Andreev bound states (psABSs), which can mimic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Shubhanshu Karoliya , Ekta , Gargee Sharma