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We study fermionic zero modes in the domain wall background. The fermions have Dirac and left- and right-handed Majorana mass terms. The source of the Dirac mass term is the coupling to a scalar field $\Phi$. The source of the Majorana mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dejan Stojkovic

We study Majorana zero modes properties in cylindrical cross-section semiconductor quantum wires based on the $k \cdot p$ theory and a discretized lattice model. Within this model, the influence of disorder potentials in the wire and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Chao Lei , Guru Khalsa , Jiangfeng Du , Allan H. MacDonald

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

We construct a supersymmetric model of interacting Majorana fermions on the kagome lattice. In the infinite-coupling limit, the model exhibits an extensively degenerate ground state manifold separated in two topological sectors, in addition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-02 Chengshu Li , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Marcel Franz

If a quantum dot is coupled to a topological superconductor via tunneling contacts, each contact hosts a Majorana zero mode in the limit of zero transmission. Close to a resonance and at a finite contact transparency, the resonant level in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Max Geier , Svend Krøjer , Felix von Oppen , Charles M. Marcus , Karsten Flensberg , Piet W. Brouwer

We show that the microwave (MW) spectra in semiconductor-nanowire-based transmon qubits provide a strong signature of the presence of Majorana bound states in the junction. This occurs as an external magnetic field tunes the wire into the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 J. Avila , E. Prada , P. San-Jose , R. Aguado

We show that Majorana edge modes appear in a strongly correlated phase of semiconducting nanowires with discrete rotational symmetry in the cross section. These modes exist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, magnetic fields and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Tommy Li , Michele Burrello , Karsten Flensberg

One-dimensional topological superconductors are known to host Majorana zero modes at domain walls terminating the topological phase. Their nonabelian nature allows for processing quantum information by braiding operations which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Torsten Karzig , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum operations which could in principle significantly reduce qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu , Michael Wimmer , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Starting from a double quantum dot realization of a minimal Kitaev chain, we demonstrate that non-Hermicity stabilizes the so-called poor man's Majorana zero modes in a region of parameter space that is much broader than in the Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Jorge Cayao , Ramón Aguado

We propose a very accurate and efficient variational scheme for the ground state of the system of $p$-wave attractively interacting fermions confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap. By the construction, the method takes the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-21 Przemysław Kościk , Tomasz Sowiński

We propose heterostructures that realize first and second order topological superconductivity with vanishing net magnetization by utilizing altermagnetism. Such platforms may offer a significant improvement over conventional platforms with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Taylor L. Hughes , Jennifer Cano

We theoretically explore quench dynamics in a finite-sized topological fermionic p-wave superconducting wire with the goal of demonstrating that topological order can have marked effects on such non-equilibrium dynamics. In the case studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-26 Suraj Hegde , Vasudha Shivamoggi , Smitha Vishveshwara , Diptiman Sen

We propose a minimalist architecture for achieving various crystalline-symmetry-protected Majorana modes in an array of coupled quantum dots. Our framework is motivated by the recent experimental demonstrations of two-site and three-site…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Bradraj Pandey , Gonzalo Alvarez , Elbio Dagotto , Rui-Xing Zhang

Majorana fermions are rising as a promising key component in quantum computation. While the prevalent approach is to use a quadratic (i.e. non-interacting) Majorana Hamiltonian, when expressed in terms of Dirac fermions, generically the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-24 Zhoushen Huang , P. Wolfle , A. V. Balatsky

Topological phases of matter have been used as a fertile realm of intensive discussions about fermionic fractionalization. In this work, we study the effects of anisotropic superconducting correlations in the fermionic fractionalization on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 M. A. R. Griffith , E. Mamani , L. Nunes , H. Caldas

Realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the laboratory is one of the major goals in condensed matter physics. We review the current status of this rapidly-developing field, focusing on semiconductor-superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-11 R. M. Lutchyn , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus , Y. Oreg

We study Majorana zero modes bound to giant vortices in topological superconductors or topological insulator/normal superconductor heterostructures. By expanding in inverse powers of a large winding number $n$, we find an analytic solution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Logan Gates , Alexander A. Penin

We demonstrate operation of a small Fabry-Perot interferometer in which highly coherent Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are observed in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes. Using a novel heterostructure design, Coulomb effects are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 James Nakamura , Saeed Fallahi , Harshad Sahasrabudhe , Rajib Rahman , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

It is argued that Majorana zero modes in a system of quantum fermions can mediate a teleportation-like process with the actual transfer of electronic material between well separated points. The problem is formulated in the context of a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon W. Semenoff , Pasquale Sodano