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We develop an analytical approach to the study of one-dimensional free fermions subject to random projective measurements of local site occupation numbers, based on the Keldysh path-integral formalism and replica trick. In the limit of rare…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Igor Poboiko , Paul Pöpperl , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

We investigate experimentally an exotic state of electronic matter obtained by fine-tuning to a quantum critical point (QCP), realized in a spin-polarized resonant level coupled to strongly dissipative electrodes. Several transport scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. T. Mebrahtu , I. V. Borzenets , H. Zheng , Y. V. Bomze , A. I. Smirnov , S. Florens , H. U. Baranger , G. Finkelstein

Majorana fermion dynamics may arise at the edge of Kitaev wires or superconductors. Alternatively, it can be engineered by using trapped ions or ultracold atoms in an optical lattice as quantum simulators. This motivates the theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 M. H. Al-Hashimi , A. M. Shalaby , U. -J. Wiese

The coupling between fermionic matter and gauge fields plays a fundamental role in our understanding of nature, while at the same time posing a challenging problem for theoretical modeling. In this situation, controlled information can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-05 Lukas Janssen , Wei Wang , Michael M. Scherer , Zi Yang Meng , Xiao Yan Xu

Dynamical quantum phase transitions, encompassing phenomena like many-body localization transitions and measurement-induced phase transitions, are often characterized and identified through the analysis of quantum entanglement. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Wei Xia , Jie Zou , Xiaopeng Li

We consider a helical spin liquid system which shows majorana fermion modes at the edge. The interaction between the quasiparticles in this system induces phase transition, Majorana-Ising transition. We comply the density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Dayasindhu Dey , Sudip Kumar Saha , P. Singha Deo , Manoranjan Kumar , Sujit Sarkar

We study transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to a Majorana zero mode and two normal leads. We investigate the full counting statistics of charge tunneling events which allows one to extract complete information about current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Dong E. Liu , Alex Levchenko , Roman M. Lutchyn

In recent years, the study of Majorana signatures in quantum transport has become a central focus in condensed matter physics. Here, we present a rigorous and systematic derivation of the fermionic superoperator describing the open quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jia-Lin Pan , Zi-Fan Zhu , Shixuan Chen , Yu Su , Yao Wang

Pairing between spinless fermions can generate Majorana fermion excitations that exhibit intriguing properties arising from non-local correlations. But simple models indicate that non-local correlation between Majorana fermions becomes…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-02 Fei Lin , V. W. Scarola

The search for Majorana fermions in p-wave paired fermionic systems has recently moved to the forefront of condensed-matter research. Here we propose an alternative route and show theoretically that Majorana-like modes can be realized and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-07 C. -E. Bardyn , A. Imamoglu

One-dimensional topological phases can host localized zero-energy modes that enable high-fidelity storage and manipulation of quantum information. Majorana fermion chains support a classic example of such a phase, having zero modes that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 Adam S. Jermyn , Roger S. K. Mong , Jason Alicea , Paul Fendley

We study temporal entanglement in dual-unitary Clifford circuits with probabilistic measurements preserving spatial unitarity. We exactly characterize the temporal entanglement barrier in the measurement-free regime, exhibiting ballistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Jiangtian Yao , Pieter W. Claeys

The simplest continuum model of a one-dimensional non-interacting superconducting fermionic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase is studied in great detail using analytical methods. In a first step, we present a full exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Victor Chua , Katharina Laubscher , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Parafermion zero modes are generalizations of Majorana modes that underlie comparatively rich non-Abelian-anyon properties. We introduce exact mappings that connect parafermion chains, which can emerge in two-dimensional fractionalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

Recent numerical advances in the field of strongly correlated electron systems allow the calculation of the entanglement spectrum and entropies for interacting fermionic systems. An explicit determination of the entanglement (modular)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-16 Francesco Parisen Toldin , Fakher F. Assaad

We describe a scheme to exchange fermion parity between two pairs of Majorana bound states mediated by coupling with a centralized quantum dot. We specifically formulate such a scheme for Majorana bound states nucleated in the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Varsha Subramanyan , Jukka I Vayrynen , Alex Levchenko , Smitha Vishveshwara

By making use of conformal mapping, we construct various time-evolution operators in (1+1) dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), which take the form $\int dx\, f(x) \mathcal{H}(x)$, where $\mathcal{H}(x)$ is the Hamiltonian density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

The possibility to observe and manipulate Majorana fermions as end states of one-dimensional topological superconductors has been actively discussed recently. In a quantum wire with strong spin-orbit coupling placed in proximity to a bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-31 Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana fermion - the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles - has produced the first positive experimental results, but is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-14 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

We consider directed polymers in 1+1 spatial dimension under action of an external repulsive potential along a line. Using the exact mapping onto imaginary time evolution of free fermions we find that for sufficiently strong potential the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-22 James S. Pallister , Samuel H. Pickering , Dimitri M. Gangardt , Alexander G. Abanov