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The realization and manipulation of Majorana zero modes is a key step in achieving topological quantum computation. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of Majorana corner states in a superconductor-insulators-superconductor vertical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-17 Cheng-Ming Miao , Yu-Hao Wan , Ying-Tao Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

We propose a topological qubit in which braiding and readout are mediated by the $4\pi$ Majorana-Josephson effect. The braidonium device consists of three Majorana nanowires that come together to make a tri-junction; in order to control the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 John P. T. Stenger , Michael Hatridge , Sergey M. Frolov , David Pekker

The non-Abelian braiding of Majorana fermions is one of the most promising operations providing a key building block for the realization of topological quantum computation. Recently, the chiral Majorana fermions were observed in a hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

We study Majorana devices featuring a competition between superconductivity and multi-channel Kondo physics. Our proposal extends previous work on single-channel Kondo systems to a topologically nontrivial setting of non-Fermi liquid type,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 A. Zazunov , F. Buccheri , P. Sodano , R. Egger

We investigate a topological superconducting wire with balanced gain and loss that is effectively described by the non-Hermitian Kitaev/Majorana chain with parity-time symmetry. This system is shown to possess two distinct types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Kohei Kawabata , Yuto Ashida , Hosho Katsura , Masahito Ueda

Majorana fermions are the only fermionic particles that are expected to be their own antiparticles. While elementary particles of the Majorana type were not identified yet, quasi-particles with Majorana like properties, born from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 Anindya Das , Yuval Ronen , Yonatan Most , Yuval Oreg , Moty Heiblum , Hadas Shtrikman

Developing a gate-tunable, scalable, and topologically-protectable supercurrent qubit and integrating it into a quantum circuit are crucial for applications in the fields of quantum information technology and topological phenomena. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 Hong-Seok Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

Protecting qubits from noise is essential for building reliable quantum computers. Topological qubits offer a route to this goal by encoding quantum information non-locally, using pairs of Majorana zero modes. These modes form a shared…

We propose theoretically an effective scheme for braiding Majorana bound states by manipulating the point potential. The vortex pinning effect is carefully elucidated. This effect may be used to control the vortices and Majorana bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-15 Hai-Dan Wu , Tao Zhou

Majorana fermions act as their own antiparticle, and they have long been thought to be confined to the realm of pure theory. However, interest in them has recently resurfaced, as it was realized through the work of Kitaev that some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 T. C. Bartolo , J. S. Smith , B. Muralidharan , C. Müller , T. M. Stace , J. H. Cole

We consider the correlated parallel transport through two quantum dots which are tunnel-coupled to the ends of a semiconductor nanowire where the Majorana bound states (MBSs) may emerge under proper conditions. In terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Peiyue Wang , Yunshan Cao , Ming Gong , Gang Xiong , Xin-Qi Li

In this paper we find that confining a second-order topological superconductor with a harmonic potential leads to a proliferation of Majorana corner modes. As a consequence, this results in the formation of Majorana corner flat bands which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-05 Majid Kheirkhah , Yuki Nagai , Chun Chen , Frank Marsiglio

A Majorana-based qubit can form within the fermion parity subspace of a two-island topological superconductor setup consisting of four Majorana zero modes. We study the relaxation time of this Majorana qubit induced by the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Yang Song , S. Das Sarma

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

The study of non-Abelian Majorana zero modes advances our understanding of the fundamental physics in quantum matter, and pushes the potential applications of such exotic states to topological quantum computation. It has been shown that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Xiong-Jun Liu , Chris L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

Motivated by a recent breakthrough transport experiment [Phys. Rev. B.107.245423 (2023)] in Majorana nanowires, we theoretically investigate local and nonlocal transport in Majorana nanowires in various disorder regimes, correlating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sankar Das Sarma , Haining Pan

We present designs for scalable quantum computers composed of qubits encoded in aggregates of four or more Majorana zero modes, realized at the ends of topological superconducting wire segments that are assembled into superconducting…

We show that nonzero drag current in a double quantum-dot system, consisting of a biased drive dot and an unbiased passive dot coupled capacitively, can be generated by a Majorana bound state located at one of the leads connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xiao Xiao , Jian-Xin Zhu

In this work we investigate Majorana correlations in quantum impurities coupled to a topological superconducting wire. By employing a density matrix renormalization group approach, we have calculated the Majorana correlation functions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-27 G. S. Diniz , E. Vernek

Artificial Kitaev chains have emerged as a promising platform for realizing topological quantum computing. Once the chains are formed and the Majorana zero modes are braided/fused, reading out the parity of the chains is essential for…