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We propose a planar tunneling setup to probe vacancy-bound Majorana modes in the chiral Kitaev spin liquid. In this geometry, the inelastic tunneling conductance can be expressed directly in terms of real-space spin correlations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Weiyao Li , Vitor Dantas , Wen-Han Kao , Natalia B. Perkins

Tunneling spectroscopy measurements are often used to probe the energy spectrum of Andreev bound states (ABSs) in semiconductor-superconductor hybrids. Recently, this spectroscopy technique has been incorporated into planar Josephson…

The nonlocal nature of unpaired Majorana bound states (MBSs) in topological superconductors can be exploited to create topologically protected qubits and perform gate operations fault-tolerantly via braidings. However, the time-dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-14 Roya Radgohar , Mehdi Kargarian

We consider theoretically the physics of bulk topological superconductivity accompanied by boundary non-Abelian Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid systems consisting of finite wires in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu

We study charge transport through a topological superconductor with a pair of Majorana end states, coupled to leads via quantum dots with resonant levels. The non-locality of the Majorana bound states opens the possibility of crossed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Björn Zocher , Bernd Rosenow

A robust zero-bias conductance peak in putative $p$-wave superconductors is often regarded as the primary signature of a Majorana zero mode. Yet similar features can also arise from trivial bound states. This ambiguity has limited the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-30 A. Maiti , G. D. Gu , F. Massee

Detecting anomalies in multivariate time series(MTS) data plays an important role in many domains. The abnormal values could indicate events, medical abnormalities,cyber-attacks, or faulty devices which if left undetected could lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Usman Anjum , Samuel Lin , Justin Zhan

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 consider a superconducting film exchange-coupled to a close-by chiral magnetic layer and study how magnetic skyrmions can induce the formation of Majorana bound states (MBS) in the superconductor. Inspired by a proposal by Yang et al.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-09 Stefan Rex , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

Majorana zero modes (MZMs), emerging as exotic quasiparticles that carry non-Abelian statistics, hold great promise for achieving fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. A key signature of the presence of MZMs is the zero-bias peaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Mouyang Cheng , Ryotaro Okabe , Abhijatmedhi Chotrattanapituk , Mingda Li

Identifying experimental probes capable of diagnosing extreme quantum behavior is widely regarded as one of the foremost challenges in modern condensed matter physics. Here, we propose a novel approach for detecting chiral Kitaev spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Shang-Shun Zhang , Gábor B. Halász , Cristian D. Batista

A chain of quantum dots (QDs) in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems can form an artificial Kitaev chain hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). These zero-energy states are expected to be localised on the edges of the chain, at the…

We study a chain of magnetic impurities on a conventional superconductor with spin-orbit coupling, treating the superconducting order fully self-consistently. We find and quantify strong hybridization between the topological edge Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-11 Andreas Theiler , Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The easily accessible experimental signatures of Majorana modes are ambiguous and only probe topology indirectly: for example, quasi-Majorana states mimic most properties of Majoranas. Establishing a correspondence between an experiment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Isidora Araya Day , Antonio L. R. Manesco , Michael Wimmer , Anton R. Akhmerov

This is a shortened, clarified, and mathematically more rigorous version of the original arXiv version. Its first four findings remain unchanged from the original: 1) measurement-to-track associations (MTAs) in multitarget tracking (MTT)…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-01 Ronald Mahler

In this work, we investigate a quantum-ring coupled to a topological superconductor, hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). We study the MBSs effects over the spectrum and persistent current along the quantum-ring. To obtain physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 F. G. Medina , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , L. Rosales , P. A. Orellana

We propose a set of interferometric methods on how to detect Majorana bound states induced by a topological insulator. The existence of these states can be easily determined by the conductance oscillations as function of magnetic flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-18 Colin Benjamin , Jiannis K. Pachos

It has been argued that fluctuations of fermion parity are harmful for the demonstration of non-Abelian anyonic statistics. Here, we demonstrate a striking exception in which such fluctuations are actively used. We present a theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Sunghun Park , H. -S. Sim , Patrik Recher

Majorana bound states are expected to appear in one-dimensional semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems, provided they are homogenous enough to host a global topological phase. In order to experimentally investigate the uniformity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Qingzhen Wang , Yining Zhang , Saurabh Karwal , Srijit Goswami

A semiconducting nanowire fully wrapped by a superconducting shell has been proposed as a platform for obtaining Majorana modes at small magnetic fields. In this study, we demonstrate that the appearance of subgap states in such structures…