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Majorana zero modes at the boundaries of topological superconductors are charge-neutral, an equal superposition of electrons and holes. This ideal situation is, however, hard to achieve in physical implementations, such as proximitised…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 Fernando Domínguez , Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Ramón Aguado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

Time-quasiperiodic Majoranas are generalizations of Floquet Majoranas in time-quasiperiodic superconducting systems. We show that in a system driven at $d$ mutually irrational frequencies, there are up to $2^d$ types of such Majoranas,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Yang Peng , Gil Refael

The charging of a quantum box connected to a lead by a single-mode point contact is solved for arbitrary temperatures, tunneling amplitudes, and gate voltages, using a variant of Wilson's numerical renormalization group. The charge inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eran Lebanon , Avraham Schiller , Frithjof B. Anders

We perform simulations for transport and nontrivial fusion of Majorana zero modes in topological superconducting quantum wires. We uncover interesting behaviors of nonadiabatic transition associated with the transport through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Qiongyao Wang , Jing Bai , Luting Xu , Wei Feng , Xin-Qi Li

Electrons are indivisible elementary particles, yet paradoxically a collection of them can act as a fraction of a single electron, exhibiting exotic and useful properties. One such collective excitation, known as a topological Majorana…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Nikhil Harle , Oles Shtanko , Ramis Movassagh

The possibility to engineer artificial Kitaev chains in arrays of quantum dots coupled via narrow superconducting regions has emerged as an attractive way to overcome the disorder issues that complicate the realization and detection of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Athanasios Tsintzis , Rubén Seoane Souto , Karsten Flensberg , Jeroen Danon , Martin Leijnse

Cavity embedding is an emerging paradigm for the control of quantum matter, offering avenues to manipulate electronic states and potentially drive topological phase transitions. In this work, we address the stability of a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Zeno Bacciconi , Gian Marcello Andolina , Christophe Mora

In this work we consider superconductor-semiconductor hybrids containing both trivial and Majorana zero modes and explore their signatures in the Majorana polarization. In particular, we consider trivial zero energy states due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Jorge Cayao

We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a quasi one dimensional ferromagnet-superconductor junction where the superconductor consists of mixed singlet and triplet pairings. We show that the relative orientation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Ganesh C. Paul , Arijit Saha , Sourin Das

Surface codes offer a very promising avenue towards fault-tolerant quantum computation. We argue that two-dimensional interacting networks of Majorana bound states in topological superconductor/semiconductor heterostructures hold several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 S. Plugge , L. A. Landau , E. Sela , A. Altland , K. Flensberg , R. Egger

In the space of less than one decade, the search for Majorana quasiparticles in condensed matter has become one of the hottest topics in physics. The aim of this review is to provide a brief perspective of where we are with strong focus on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-08 Ramón Aguado

Obeying non-Abelian statistics, Majorana fermions holds a promise to implement fault-tolerant quantum computing. It was found that Majorana fermions can be simulated by the zero-energy excitation in a nanowire with strong spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ming-Jian Gao , Yu-Peng Ma , Jun-Hong An

Majorana modes, typically arising at the edges of one-dimensional topological superconductors, are considered to be a promising candidate for encoding nonlocal qubits in fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here we propose to exploit the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

We study Coulomb charging effects for transport through a topologically nontrivial superconducting wire, where Majorana bound states are present at the interface to normal-conducting leads. We construct the general Keldysh functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Zazunov , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

We theoretically investigate electronic transport through a junction where a quantum dot (QD) is tunnel coupled on both sides to semiconductor nanowires with strong spin-orbit interaction and proximity-induced superconductivity. The results…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-09 Guang-Yao Huang , Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg , Hongqi Xu

We numerically compute the low-energy spectrum of a gate-controlled superconducting topological nanowire segmented into two islands, each Josephson-coupled to a bulk superconductor. This device may host two pairs of Majorana bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Michael Hell , Jeroen Danon , Karsten Flensberg , Martin Leijnse

We investigate the impact of introducing Majorana bound states, formed by a proximitized semiconducting nanowire in the topological regime, into a current biased capacitive Josephson junction, thereby adding delocalized states below the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Ian J. van Beek , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Bernd Braunecker

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana fermions, their role in topological quantum computation, and the possibility of realizing them in condensed matter systems, has attracted considerable attention. While there have been recent reports of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 David Nozadze , Nandini Trivedi

We consider theoretically the transport properties of a spinless resonant electronic level coupled to strongly dissipative leads, in the regime of circuit impedance near the resistance quantum. Using the Luttinger liquid analogy, one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Huaixiu Zheng , Serge Florens , Harold U. Baranger

A beam splitter consisting of two normal leads coupled to one end of a topological superconducting nanowire via double quantum dot is investigated. In this geometry, the linear current cross-correlations at zero temperature change signs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Zhan Cao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qiao Chen , Hong-Gang Luo