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We investigate the waiting time distributions (WTDs) of superconducting hybrid junctions, considering both conventional and topologically nontrivial superconductors hosting Majorana bound states at their edges. To this end, we employ a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Shuo Mi , Pablo Burset , Christian Flindt

The analysis of waiting times of electron transfers has recently become experimentally accessible owing to advances in noninvasive probes working in the short-time regime. We study electron waiting times in a topological Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-21 Paramita Dutta , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Pablo Burset

We consider a biased Normal-Superconducting junction with various types of superconductivity. Depending on the class of superconductivity, a Majorana bound state may appear at the interface. We show that this has important consequences on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 D. Chevallier , M. Albert , P. Devillard

We have studied the Waiting Time Distributions (WTDs) for sub-gap transport through a single-level quantum dot tunnel coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead. The WTDs reveal the internal dynamics of the system in particular the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Leila Rajabi , Christina Pöltl , Michele Governale

Superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect are considered to be two cornerstones of condensed matter physics. The realization of hybrid structures where these two effects coexist has recently become an active field of research. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

A quantum spin Hall strip where different edges are contacted by $s$-wave superconductors with a phase difference $\phi$ supports Majorana bound states protected by time-reversal symmetry. We study signatures of these states in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xue Yang , Pablo Burset , Bo Lu

To guide the search for the Majorana fermion, we theoretically study superconductor/topological/superconductor (S/TI/S) junctions in an experimentally relevant regime. We find that the striking features present in these systems, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 M. Snelder , M. Veldhorst , A. A. Golubov , A. Brinkman

A theory of dispersionless Andreev bound states on surfaces of time-reversal invariant unconventional superconductors is presented. The generalized criterion for the dispersionless Andreev bound state is derived from the bulk-edge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-18 Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka , Keiji Yada , Takehito Yokoyama

We study the spin transport through a 1D quantum Ising-XY-Ising spin link that emulates a topological superconducting-normal-superconducting structure via Jordan-Wigner (JW) transformation. We calculate, both analytically and numerically,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Pei-Xin Shen , Silas Hoffman , Mircea Trif

Majorana fermions are fascinating and not yet confirmed quasiparticles in condensed matter physics. Here we propose using microwave spectra to distinguish Majorana bound states (MBSs) from topological trivial Andreev bound states. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Zhen-Tao Zhang

The distribution of waiting times between elementary tunneling events is of fundamental importance for understanding the stochastic charge transfer processes in nanoscale conductors. Here we investigate the waiting time distributions (WTDs)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Mathias Albert , Christian Flindt , Markus Büttiker

We consider a sequence of quantized Lorentzian pulses of non-interacting electrons impinging on a quantum point contact (QPC) and study the waiting time distribution (WTD), for any transmission and any number of pulses. As the degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Mathias Albert , Pierre Devillard

We describe the mean-field model of a one-dimensional topological superconductor with two orbitals per unit cell. Time-reversal symmetry is absent, but a nonsymmorphic symmetry, involving a translation by a fraction of the unit cell, mimics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Max Tymczyszyn , Edward McCann

We investigate the sub gap properties of a three terminal Josephson T-junction composed of topologically superconducting wires connected by a normal metal region. This system naturally hosts zero energy Andreev bound states which are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Christian Spånslätt , Eddy Ardonne

A topological superfluid phase characterized by an emergent chiral-p-wave pair potential is expected to form in a two-dimensional Fermi superfluid subject to s-wave pairing, spin-orbit coupling and a large-enough Zeeman splitting. Andreev…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-17 Kadin Thompson , Joachim Brand , Ulrich Zülicke

We investigate the Josephson effect in TNT and NTN junctions, consisting of topological (T) and normal (N) phases of semiconductor-superconductor 1D heterostructures in the presence of a Zeeman field. A key feature of our setup is that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Panagiotis Kotetes , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

We propose a feasible route to engineer one and two dimensional time reversal invariant (TRI) topological superconductors (SC) via proximity effects between nodeless extended s wave iron-based SC and semiconductors with large Rashba…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-06 Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

We study edge states of non-centrosymmetric superconductors where spin-singlet d-wave pairing mixes with spin-triplet p (or f)-wave one by spin-orbit coupling. For dxy-wave pairing, the obtained Andreev bound state has an anomalous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-09-10 Yukio Tanaka , Yoshihiro Mizuno , Takehito Yokoyama , Keiji Yada , Masatoshi Sato

Topological Josephson junctions enable nonreciprocal transport involving Majorana fermions (MFs). Here we examine a topological Josephson junction with mixed $s$+$p$-wave pairing, where topological phase transition can be driven by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Shu-Tong Guan , Jin An

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka
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