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Strongly correlated systems exhibit a rich phenomenology due to the antagonism of a diversity of ordered phases. The aftermath of this interplay can lead to a coexistence which takes place at a microscopic level, or, a phase separation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-15 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Panagiotis Kotetes , Mario Cuoco

We study the effect of an external magnetic field in the Kondo regime of a double-quantum-dot system in which a strongly correlated dot (the "hanging dot") is coupled to a second, noninteracting dot that also bridges the gap between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , Edson Vernek , Kevin Ingersent , Nancy P. Sandler , Sergio E. Ulloa

In the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetic field can drive a proximitized nanowire into a topological superconducting phase. We study transport properties of such nanowires in the Coulomb blockade regime. The associated with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-09 Roman M. Lutchyn , Leonid I. Glazman

Topological superconductors, which support Majorana fermion excitations, have been the subject of intense studies due to their novel transport properties and their potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computations. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-24 James Jun He , Jiansheng Wu , Ting-Pong Choy , Xiong-Jun Liu , Y. Tanaka , K. T. Law

We investigate the Kondo effect in a structure which is constructed by embedding one quantum dot between a normal metal and a \emph{DIII}-class topological superconductor supporting Majorana doublets at its ends. It is observed that Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Zhen Gao , Wei-Jiang Gong

The transport behavior of a double quantum dot side-attached to a topological superconducting wire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes is studied theoretically in the strong correlation regime. It is shown that Majorana modes can leak to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-03 Ireneusz Weymann , Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Piotr Majek

We study three-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric materials such as RhSi, CoSi, and AlPt which host coupled multifold nodes energetically split by the spin-orbit coupling at the same…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-11 Changhee Lee , Chiho Yoon , Taehyeok Kim , Suk Bum Chung , Hongki Min

We study charge transport of a topological superconductor connected to different electromagnetic environments using a low-energy description where only the Majorana bound states in the superconductor are included. Extending earlier findings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Konrad Wölms , Karsten Flensberg

Topological phases of matter are among the most intriguing research directions in Condensed Matter Physics. It is known that superconductivity induced on a topological insulator's surface can lead to exotic Majorana modes, the main…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-20 J. Herbrych , M. Środa , G. Alvarez , M. Mierzejewski , E. Dagotto

We study Coulomb charging effects for transport through a topologically nontrivial superconducting wire, where Majorana bound states are present at the interface to normal-conducting leads. We construct the general Keldysh functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Zazunov , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

We have studied the quantum conductance of the Kondo state in the carbon nanotube quantum dot (CNTQD) with side-attached multi-Majorana fermion states in topological superconductors (TSCs). The zero-energy Majorana fermions interfere with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 D. Krychowski

The Josephson energy of two superconducting islands containing Majorana fermions is a 4\pi-periodic function of the superconducting phase difference. If the islands have a small capacitance, their ground state energy is governed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-07 B. van Heck , F. Hassler , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We propose to use residual parafermions of the overscreened Kondo effect for topological quantum computation. A superconducting proximity gap of $\Delta<T_K$ can be utilized to isolate the parafermion from the continuum of excitations and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-19 Yashar Komijani

Unequivocal signatures of Majorana zero energy modes in condensed matter systems and manipulation of the associated electron parity states are highly sought after for fundamental reasons as well as for the prospect of topological quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-20 Rosa Rodriguez-Mota , Smitha Vishveshwara , T. Pereg-Barnea

The topological Kondo effect arises when conduction electrons in metallic leads are coupled to a mesoscopic superconducting island with Majorana fermions. Working with its minimal setup, we study the lead electron local tunneling density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 A. Latief , B. Béri

In this article, we study the quantum transport through a single-level quantum-dot in Kondo regime, coupled to current leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors, each hosting Majorana zero modes at their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 G. A. Lara , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana

We study theoretically the effects of long-range and on-site Coulomb interactions on the topological phases and transport properties of spin-orbit-coupled quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires imposed on an s-wave superconductor. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-12 Hengyi Xu , Ye Xiong , Jun Wang

Majorana zero modes are leading candidates for topological quantum computation due to non-local qubit encoding and non-abelian exchange statistics. Spatially separated Majorana modes are expected to allow phase-coherent single-electron…

The non-Fermi-liquid properties of an ultrasmall quantum dot coupled to a lead and to a quantum box are investigated. Tuning the ratio of the tunneling amplitudes to the lead and box, we find a line of two-channel Kondo fixed points for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Frithjof B. Anders , Eran Lebanon , Avraham Schiller

We show that Majorana edge modes appear in a strongly correlated phase of semiconducting nanowires with discrete rotational symmetry in the cross section. These modes exist in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, magnetic fields and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Tommy Li , Michele Burrello , Karsten Flensberg