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In two-dimensional topological nodal superconductors, Majorana edge states have been conventionally believed to exhibit only spin-triplet pairing correlations. However, we reveal a substantial spin-singlet pairing component in Majorana edge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-10 Junjie Zeng , James Jun He , Zhen Ning , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanowires with Zeeman splitting in proximity contact with bulk $s$-wave superconductivity have recently been proposed as a promising platform for realizing Majorana fermions. However, in this setup the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-21 Ming Gong , Li Mao , Sumanta Tewari , Chuanwei Zhang

A remarkable feature of topological superconductors is the emergence of Majorana fermions in electron systems. Whereas the emergent Majorana fermions share the self-anti-particle property with Majorana fermions in particle physics, they may…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-11 Shingo Kobayashi , Masatoshi Sato

We study the spin and charge currents flowing at the interface of an itinerant ferromagnet with a topological spin-triplet superconductor having different number of time-reversal-invariant Majorana helical modes. Depending on the number of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-30 Damien Terrade , Dirk Manske , Mario Cuoco

Through a systematic symmetry and topology analysis we establish that three-dimensional chiral superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling and odd-parity pairing generically host low-energy nodal quasiparticles that are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-07 Vladyslav Kozii , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu

One of the goals of modern spectroscopy is to invent techniques which detect neutral excitations that have been theoretically proposed. For superconductors, two point transport measurements detect the Andreev crossed reflection which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 D. Schmeltzer

Topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk with a finite band gap and conducting edge or surface states, where charge carriers are protected against backscattering. These states give rise to the quantum spin Hall effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-23 M. Veldhorst , M. Snelder , M. Hoek , T. Gang , X. L. Wang , V. K. Guduru , U. Zeitler , W. G. v. d. Wiel , A. A. Golubov , H. Hilgenkamp , A. Brinkman

We investigate persistent currents in metallic rings interrupted by a Coulomb blockaded topological superconducting segment. We show that the presence of Majorana bound states in the superconductor is reflected in the emergence of an h/e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Philippe Jacquod , Markus Buttiker

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin configurations that can be efficiently created and manipulated. They hold great promises for next-generation spintronics applications. In parallel to these developments, the interplay of magnetism,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-24 Maxime Garnier , Andrej Mesaros , Pascal Simon

We found parity-violating Majorana fermions in a chiral superconductor Sr2RuO4. The current-voltage curves show an anomalous behavior: The induced voltage is an even function of the bias current. The magnetic field dependent results suggest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-08 Hiroyoshi Nobukane , Akiyuki Tokuno , Toyoki Matsuyama , Satoshi Tanda

We investigate the effect of helical Majorana fermions at the surface of superconducting topological insulators (STI) on the Josephson current by referring to possible pairing states of Cu-doped Bi2Se3. The surface state in the present STI…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-02 Ai Yamakage , Masatoshi Sato , Keiji Yada , Satoshi Kashiwaya , Yukio Tanaka

We consider Majorana fermions (MFs) in quasi-one-dimensional nanowire systems containing normal and superconducting sections where the topological phase based on Rashba spin orbit interaction can be tuned by magnetic fields. We derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

In this work, we show that a giant spin current can be injected into a nodal topological superconductor, using a normal paramagnetic lead, through a large number of zero energy Majorana fermions at the superconductor edge. The giant spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-09 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Yao Lu , James J. He , K. T. Law

We present a novel controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes. The platform consists of a ferromagnetic metallic wire placed among conventional superconductors, which are in proximity to ferromagnetic insulators. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Giorgos Livanas , Nikolaos Vanas , Georgios Varelogiannis

In metallic ferromagnets, an electric current is accompanied by a flux of angula r momentum, also called spin current. In multilayers, spatial variations of the spin current correspond to drive torques exerted on a magnetic layer. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Berger

In this work, we find that Majorana fermions induce selective equal spin Andreev reflections (SESARs), in which incoming electrons with certain spin polarization in the lead are reflected as counter propagating holes with the same spin. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 James J. He , T. K. Ng , Patrick A. Lee , K. T. Law

Topological insulator edges and spin-orbit-coupled quantum wires in proximity to s-wave super- conductors can be tuned through a topological quantum phase transition by a Zeeman field. Here we show that a supercurrent flowing in the s-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alessandro Romito , Jason Alicea , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

We investigate the admittance of a metallic quantum RC circuit with a spinful single-channel lead or equally with two conducting spin-polarized channels, in which Majorana fermions play a crucial role in the charge dynamics. We address how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Christophe Mora , Karyn Le Hur

A junction between two boundaries of a topological superconductor (TSC), mediated by localized edge modes of Majorana fermions, is investigated. The tunneling of fermions across the junction depends on the magnetic flux. It breaks the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-04 Igor N. Karnaukhov

The non-Abelian topological order for superconductors is characterized by the existence of zero-energy Majorana fermions in edges of systems and in a vortex of a macroscopic condensate, which obey the non-Abelian statistics. This paper is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-13 Masatoshi Sato , Yoshiro Takahashi , Satoshi Fujimoto