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Majorana zero modes are well studied in the gapped phases of topological systems. We investigate Majorana zero modes at the topological quantum criticality in one dimensional topological superconducting model with longer range interaction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-15 S Rahul , Ranjith R Kumar , Y R Kartik , Sujit Sarkar

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

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

Majorana fermions are spin-1/2 neutral particles that are their own antiparticles and were initially predicted by Ettore Majorana in particle physics but their observation still remains elusive. The concept of Majorana fermions has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Yukio Tanaka , Shun Tamura , Jorge Cayao

Josephson radiation is a powerful method to probe Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors. Recently, Josephson radiation with half the Josephson frequency has been experimentally observed in a HgTe-based junction, possibly from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-30 Jia-Jin Feng , Zhao Huang , Zhi Wang , Qian Niu

We propose a semiconductor-superconductor hybrid device for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes consisting of a planar Josephson junction structure with periodically modulated junction width. By performing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Purna P. Paudel , Trey Cole , Benjamin D. Woods , Tudor D. Stanescu

In recent years there has been an intensive search for Majorana fermion states in condensed matter systems. Predicted to be localized on cores of vortices in certain non-conventional superconductors, their presence is known to render the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-30 Eytan Grosfeld , Ady Stern

In search of fault-tolerant topological quantum computation (TQC), zero-bias conductance peak as a necessary signature of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) has been observed in a number of solid-state systems. Here, we present the signature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Guang Yang , Zhaozheng Lyu , Junhua Wang , Jianghua Ying , Xiang Zhang , Jie Shen , Guangtong Liu , Jie Fan , Zhongqing Ji , Xiunian Jing , Fanming Qu , Li Lu

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 mode is an exotic quasi-particle excitation with non-Abelian statistics in topological superconductor systems, and can serve as the cornerstone for topological quantum computation, a new type of fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-27 Xianxin Wu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Gang Xu , Jiangping Hu , Chao-Xing Liu

Majorana zero modes are anyons obeying non-Abelian exchange statistics distinct from fermions or bosons. While significant progresses have been achieved in the past two decades in searching for these exotic excitations in solid-state…

We present a pedagogical review of topological superconductivity and its consequences in spin-orbit coupled semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures. We start by reviewing the historical origins of the notions of Dirac and Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-22 Jay Sau , Sumanta Tewari

Majorana bound states are interesting candidates for applications in topological quantum computation. Low energy models allowing to grasp their properties are hence conceptually important. The usual scenario in these models is that two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 N. Traverso Ziani , C. Fleckenstein , L. Vigliotti , B. Trauzettel , M. Sassetti

Under certain conditions, a fermion in a superconductor can separate in space into two parts known as Majorana zero modes, which are immune to decoherence from local noise sources and are attractive building blocks for quantum computers.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-14 Sujit Manna , Peng Wei , Yingming Xie , Kam Tuen Law , Patrick Lee , Jagadeesh Moodera

Among the major approaches that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-based platform has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits which store quantum information in a topologically-protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Karsten Flensberg , Felix von Oppen , Ady Stern

Ettore Majorana, in his short life, unintendedly has uncovered the most profound problem in quantum computation by his discovery of Majorana fermion, a particle which is its own anti-particle. Owing to its non-Abelian exchange statistics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nur R. Ayukaryana , Mohammad H. Fauzi , Eddwi H. Hasdeo

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

We study the joint dynamics of the phase bias $\phi$ and the propagating Majorana fermions of the edge modes in Josephson junctions containing 2D time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS). We consider TRITOPS-TRITOPS…

Recently, superconductors with higher-order topology have stimulated extensive attention and research interest. Higher-order topological superconductors exhibit unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence, thus allow exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Xiao-Ting Chen , Chun-Hui Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

Majorana qubits offer a promising way to store and manipulate quantum information by encoding it into the state of Majorana zero modes. As the information is stored in a topological property of the system, local noise cannot lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Christoph Ohm , Fabian Hassler