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We study the low-energy transport properties of a hybrid device composed by a native quantum dot coupled to both ends of a topological superconducting nanowire section hosting Majorana zero-modes. The account of the coupling between the dot…

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We study the Kitaev chain under generalized twisted boundary conditions, for which both the amplitudes and the phases of the boundary couplings can be tuned at will. We explicitly show the presence of exact zero modes for large chains…

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We present a theoretical analysis of the equilibrium Josephson current-phase relation in hybrid devices made of conventional s-wave spin-singlet superconductors (S) and topological superconductor (TS) wires featuring Majorana end states.…

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We consider a finite-size topological Josephson junction formed at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator in proximity to conventional superconductors and study the impact of Cooper pair symmetries on the electron transport. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Jorge Cayao , Paramita Dutta , Pablo Burset , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study Andreev reflection and Andreev levels $\varepsilon$ in Zeeman-split superconductor/Rashba wire/Zeeman-split superconductor junctions by solving the Bogoliubov de-Gennes equation. We theoretically demonstrate that the Andreev levels…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 Tatsuki Hashimoto , Alexander A. Golubov , Yukio Tanaka , Jacob Linder

In this paper, we introduce a concise theoretical framework for the equilibrium three-terminal Josephson effect in spin-orbit-interacting systems, inspired by recent experiments on an InAs/Al heterostructure [Phys. Rev. X 14, 031024…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Kiryl Piasotski , Aleksandr Svetogorov , Wolfgang Belzig , Mikhail Pletyukhov

We introduce a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with staggered imbalance in the $p$-wave superconducting pairing. By tuning the chemical potential and the pairing imbalance, we find that the eigenenergy spectrum undergoes…

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Ferromagnetic-insulator (FI) based Josephson junctions are promising candidates for a coherent superconducting quantum bit as well as a classical superconducting logic circuit. Recently the appearance of an intriguing atomic-scale 0-pi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yukio Tanaka , Alexander A. Golubov , Andrey S. Vasenko , Yasuhiro Asano

We use a superconducting microresonator as a cavity to sense absorption of microwaves by a superconducting quantum point contact defined by surface gates over a proximitized two-dimensional electron gas. Renormalization of the cavity…

We study the interacting dimerized Kitaev chain at the symmetry point $\Delta=t$ and the chemical potential $\mu=0$ under open boundary conditions, which can be exactly solved by applying two Jordan-Wigner transformations and a spin…

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We theoretically analyze the Andreev bound states and their coupling to external radiation in superconductor-nanowire-superconductor Josephson junctions. We provide an effective Hamiltonian for the junction projected onto the Andreev level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-18 Sunghun Park , A. Levy Yeyati

We use boundary field theory to describe the phases accessible to a tetrahedral qubit coupled to Josephson junction chains acting as Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid leads. We prove that, in a pertinent range of the fabrication and control…

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To guide the search for the Majorana fermion, we theoretically study superconductor/topological/superconductor (S/TI/S) junctions in an experimentally relevant regime. We find that the striking features present in these systems, including…

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Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are arguably becoming the leading platform for the search of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in engineered topological superconductors. We perform a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

This work systematically investigates the phase diagram of a parallel double-quantum-dot Andreev molecule, where the two quantum dots are coupled to a common superconducting lead. Using the numerical renormalization group method, we map out…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Peter Zalom , Kacper Wrześniewski , Tomáš Novotný , Ireneusz Weymann

We develop a general perturbative framework based on a superconducting atomic limit for the description of Andreev bound states (ABS) in interacting quantum dots connected to superconducting leads. A local effective Hamiltonian for dressed…

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Hybrid superconductor-semiconducting nanowire devices provide an ideal platform to investigating novel intragap bound states, such as the Andreev bound states (ABSs), Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states, and the Majorana bound states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 S. Li , N. Kang , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

We study the subgap spectrum of the interacting single-level quantum dot coupled between two superconducting reservoirs, forming the Josephson-type circuit, and additionally hybridized with a metallic normal lead. This system allows for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Tadeusz Domański , Martin Žonda , Vladislav Pokorný , Grzegorz Górski , Václav Janiš , Tomáš Novotný

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a superconductor-quantum dot-superconductor Josephson junction coupled to a ferromagnetic metal reservoir in the presence of an external magnetic field. The device is described by an…

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