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Semiconductor-s-type superconductor nanowires host spinful fermions and cannot be reduced to a single spinless Kitaev chain hosting single Majorana zero mode. Instead, such systems can be converted into two coupled p-wave Kitaev-like chains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mijanur Islam , Mahan Mohseni , Ibsal Assi , Daniel Miravet , Pawel Hawrylak

We show that networks of topological nanowires can realize the physics of exactly solvable Kitaev spin models with two-body interactions. This connection arises from the description of the low-energy theory of both systems in terms of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Graham Kells , Ville Lahtinen , Jiri Vala

Majorana zero modes in a superconductor-semiconductor nanowire have been extensively studied during the past decade. Disorder remains a serious problem, preventing the definitive observation of topological Majorana bound states. Thus, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Haining Pan , S. Das Sarma

The realization of Majorana zero modes is in the centre of intense theoretical and experimental investigations. Unfortunately, their exchange that can reveal their exotic statistics needs manipulations that are still beyond our experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Jin-Shi Xu , Kai Sun , Yong-Jian Han , Chuan-Feng Li , Jiannis K. Pachos , Guang-Can Guo

Kitaev chain is a theoretical model of a one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana zero modes at the two ends of the chain. With the goal of emulating this model, we build a chain of three quantum dots in a semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Hao Wu , Po Zhang , John P. T. Stenger , Zhaoen Su , Jun Chen , Ghada Badawy , Sasa Gazibegovic , Erik P. A. M. Bakkers , Sergey M. Frolov

We theoretically investigate Majorana zero modes emerging in an anisotropic XY spin chain with second neighbor interactions. The spin chain is mathematically equivalent to the Kitaev chain composing of spinless fermions if only…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Kazuhiro Wada , Takanori Sugimoto , Takami Tohyama

We study the possibility to realize Majorana zero mode that's robust and may be easily manipulated for braiding in quantum computing in the ground state of the Kitaev model in this work. To achieve this we first apply a uniform [111]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Lu Yang , Jia-Xing Zhang , Shuang Liang , Wei Chen , Qiang-Hua Wang

We simulate the smallest building block of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, a system of four interacting Majorana modes. We propose a 1D Kitaev chain that has been split into three segments, i.e., two topological segments separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Tasnum Reza , Sergey M. Frolov , David Pekker

Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such states can arise at the ends of a spinless $p$-wave…

Artificial Kitaev chains engineered from semiconducting quantum dots coupled by superconducting segments offer a promising route to realize and control Majorana bound states for topological quantum computation. We study a dimerized Kitaev…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Rafael Pineda Medina , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

Majorana fermions are particles identical to their antiparticles proposed theoretically in 1937 by Ettore Majorana as real solutions of the Dirac equation. Alexei Kitaev suggested that Majorana particles should emerge in condensed matter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-17 Antônio Lucas Rigotti Manesco , Gabriel Weber , Durval Rodrigues

Motivated by the InSb nanowire superconductor system, we investigate a system where one-dimensional topological superconductors are placed in parallel. It would be simulated well by a ladder of the Kitaev chains. The system undergoes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-26 Ryohei Wakatsuki , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

We propose a simple model consisting of a magnetic domain wall proximity-coupled to an $s$-wave superconductor for realization of Majorana zero-energy modes. A spin-dependent gauge transformation translates the rotating magnetic profile…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-24 Babak Zare Rameshti , Yaser Hajati , Imam Makhfudz

We investigate Majorana modes in a quantum spin chain with bond-dependent exchange interactions by studying its dynamics. Specifically, we consider two-time correlations for the Kitaev-Heisenberg (KH) Hamiltonian close to the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Johannes Bjerlin , Anders S. Sørensen , Stephan Haas

The hybrid nanowire consisting of semiconductor with proximity to superconductor is expected to serve as an experimental platform to display Majorana zero modes. By rederiving its effective Kitaev model with spins, we discover a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Guo-Jian Qiao , Sheng-Wen Li , C. P. Sun

We construct a class of exactly solvable generalized Kitaev spin-$1/2$ models in arbitrary dimensions, which is beyond the category of quantum compass models. The Jordan-Wigner transformation is employed to prove the exact solvability. An…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-16 Jian-Jian Miao , Hui-Ke Jin , Fu-Chun Zhang , Yi Zhou

The fermionic Kitaev chain is a canonical model featuring topological Majorana zero modes. We report the experimental realization of its bosonic analogue in a nano-optomechanical network where parametric interactions induce two-mode…

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is zero-dimensional model simulating quantum chaos using interacting Majorana fermions.Previously proposals have been made to realize the SYK model in fermionic systems that can support majorana zero modes.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-13 Han-yuan Zuo , Zheng-xin Liu

We introduce a tunable synthetic-dimension platform for realizing Kitaev-chain physics with high degree of control over Majorana zero modes. It is based on a generic Landau-quantized two dimensional electron system coupled to the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Adel Ali , Alexey Belyanin

The fermionic and bosonic zero modes of the 1D interacting Kitaev chain at the symmetric point are unveiled. The many-body structures of the Majorana zero modes in the topological region are given explicitly by carrying out perturbation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-11 Yiming Wang , Zhidan Li , Qiang Han
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