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We study the variational perturbations for the mean-field solution of an interacting spinor system with underlying rotational symmetries. An approach based upon the Majorana stellar representation for mixed states and group theory is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-08 E. Serrano-Ensástiga , F. Mireles

We introduce a class of superconductors termed "quantized quadrupole superconductors" that support Majorana corner modes according to the bulk-corner correspondence, distinct from previous works on the second-order topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Yun-Mei Li , Yongwei Huang , Kai Chang

We introduce the concept of a Majorana molecule, a topological bound state appearing in the geometry of a double quantum dot (QD) structure flanking a topological superconducting nanowire. We demonstrate that, if the Majorana bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 J. E. Sanches , L. S. Ricco , W. N. Mizobata , Y. Marques , M. de Souza , I. A. Shelykh , A. C. Seridonio

I describe how the states of a discrete automata with p sites, each of which may be off or on, can be represented as Majorana spinors associated to a spacetime with signature (p,p). Some ideas about the quantization of such systems are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 G W Gibbons

We study the Majorana bound states arising in quasi-one-dimensional systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane Zeeman magnetic field. Using two different methods, first, the numerical diagonalization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Julien Despres , Ipsita Mandal , Cristina Bena

The quantum-mechanical many-body system with the potential proportional to the pairwise inverse-square distance possesses a strong-weak coupling duality. Based on this duality, particle and/or quasiparticle states are described as SU(1,1)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ivan Andric , Larisa Jonke

In terms of spin coherent states we have investigated topological defects in 2D S=1 (pseudo)spin quantum system with the bilinear and biquadratic isotropic exchange in the continuum limit. The proper Hamiltonian of the model can be written…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 N. A. Mikushina , A. S. Moskvin

It is nowadays accepted that truly quantum correlations can exist even in the absence of entanglement. For the case of symmetric states, a physically trivial unitary transformation can alter a quantum state from entangled to separable and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Markus Grassl , Gerd Leuchs , Luis L. Sánchez-Soto

We review the properties of Majorana fermions in particle physics and point out that Majorana modes in solid state systems are significantly different. The key reason is the concept of anti-particle in solid state systems is different from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

We investigate the classical nature of the spin coherent states. In addition to being minimum uncertainty states, as the size of the spin, S, increases, the classical nature is seen to increase in two respects: in their resistance to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Markham , V. Vedral

Detection and manipulation of excitations with non-Abelian statistics, such as Majorana fermions, are essential for creating topological quantum computers. To this end, we show the connection between the existence of such localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-15 Oles Shtanko , Ramis Movassagh

We study the formation of Majorana states in superconductors using the Majorana polarization, which can locally evaluate the Majorana character of a given state. We introduce the definition of the Majorana polarization vector and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-30 Cristina Bena

We introduce the concept of spinful many-particle Majorana modes with local odd operator products, thereby preserving their local statistics. We consider a superconductor-double-quantum-dot system where these modes can arise with negligible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Anthony R. Wright , Menno Veldhorst

We introduce multi-soliton sets in the two-dimensional medium with the second-harmonic-generating nonlinearity subject to spatial modulation in the form of a triangle of singular peaks. Various families of symmetric and asymmetric sets are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-14 Vitaly Lutsky , Boris A. Malomed

The symmetries of a spinning particle in the field of a self-dual monopole are studied from the viewpoint of supersymmetric quantum mechanics.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 L. Feher , P. Horvathy , L. O'Raifeartaigh

The one-mode and the two-mode multiboson systems with sl(2,R) symmetry are investigated.Hamiltonians of these systems are integrated using the theory of orthogonal polynomials. The coherent state representation for these systems is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 Tomasz Golinski , Maciej Horowski , Anatol Odzijewicz , Aneta Slizewska

Majorana fermions (MFs) in a topological superconductor exhibit anisotropic electromagnetic responses, called Majorana multipole responses, when MFs are degenerate under time-reversal and crystalline symmetries. In time-reversal symmetric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-21 Yuki Yamazaki , Shingo Kobayashi

We study theoretically second-order topological superconductors characterized by the presence of pairs of zero-energy Majorana corner states. We uncover a quadrupole spin polarization at the system edges that provides a striking signature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Kirill Plekhanov , Niclas Müller , Yanick Volpez , Dante M. Kennes , Herbert Schoeller , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

In this paper we show that for a range of configurations of inhomogeneous magnetic fields it is possible to create flat bands of Majorana states localized on the edges of 2-d lattices. Majorana bound states have been predicted to exist in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 N. Sedlmayr , J. M. Aguiar-Hualde , C. Bena

A two-dimensional second-order topological superconductor exhibits a finite gap in both bulk and edges, with the nontrivial topology manifesting itself through Majorana zero modes localized at the corners, i.e., Majorana corner states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Xiaoyu Zhu