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We consider a 1D topological superconductor (TSC) constructed by coupling a pair of Kitaev's Majorana chains with opposite spin configurations. Such a 1D lattice model is known to be protected by a $T^2 = -1$ time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Alestin Mawrie

We demonstrate the successful simulation of $\sqrt{Z}$-, $\sqrt{X}$- and $X$-quantum gates using Majorana zero modes (MZMs) that emerge in magnetic vortices located in topological superconductors. We compute the transition probabilities and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Maxwell Buss , Jasmin Bedow , Prashant Gupta , Dirk K. Morr

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of minimal Kitaev chains using quantum dots, we investigate the Majorana zero modes (MZM) in $Y$-shape Kitaev wires. We solve the associated Kitaev models analytically at the sweet spot…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-03 Bradraj Pandey , Nitin Kaushal , Gonzalo Alvarez , Elbio Dagotto

We consider the correlated parallel transport through two quantum dots which are tunnel-coupled to the ends of a semiconductor nanowire where the Majorana bound states (MBSs) may emerge under proper conditions. In terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Peiyue Wang , Yunshan Cao , Ming Gong , Gang Xiong , Xin-Qi Li

Unpaired Majorana zero-modes are central to topological quantum computation schemes as building blocks of topological qubits, and are therefore under intense experimental and theoretical investigation. Their generalizations to parafermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Shu-Wei Liu , Li-kun Shi , Ashley M. Cook

The prospect of using semiconductor quantum dots as an experimental tool to distinguish Majorana zero modes (MZMs) from other zero-energy excitations such as Kondo resonances has brought up the fundamental question of whether topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Joelson F. Silva , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , E. Vernek

We propose a scheme to braid Majorana zero modes (MZMs) through steering the spin degree of freedom, without moving, measuring, or more generically fusing the modes. For a spinful Majorana system, we show that braiding two MZMs is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Xun-Jiang Luo , Ying-Ping He , Ting Fung Jeffrey Poon , Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

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

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) enables nonreciprocal dissipationless transport when inversion and time-reversal symmetries are simultaneously broken. Rashba nanowires proximitized by conventional s-wave superconductors provide a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-03 Sagar Santra , Dibyendu Samanta , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

Hybrid nanowires combining semiconductor and superconductor materials appear well suited for the creation, detection, and control of Majorana bound states (MBSs). We demonstrate the emergence of MBSs from coalescing Andreev bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 M. T. Deng , S. Vaitiekenas , E. B. Hansen , J. Danon , M. Leijnse , K. Flensberg , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

Magnetic skyrmions are highly mobile nanoscale topological spin textures. We show, both analytically and numerically, that a magnetic skyrmion of an even azimuthal winding number placed in proximity to an s-wave superconductor hosts a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-06 Guang Yang , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We study Majorana edge states and their topological properties of one-dimensional(1D) and two-dimensional(2D) Rashba semiconductor deposited on iron-based superconductor under the applied Zeeman field for various directions. Using the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-14 Hiromi Ebisu , Keiji Yada , Hideaki Kasai , Yukio Tanaka

We investigate the collisions of Majorana zero modes, which are presented as inter-soliton collisional events in fermionic superfluids with spin-orbit coupling. Our results demonstrate that, the zero energy splitting, induced by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-27 Liang-Liang Wang , Wenjun Shao , Jian Li

We study numerically the formation of Majorana bound states in a finite-size quasi-one-dimensional square-lattice strip with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, in the presence of a proximity-induced superconducting pairing and a magnetic field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-23 Selma Franca , Vardan Kaladzhyan , Cristina Bena

Two semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) coupled through a superconductor constitute a minimal realisation of a Kitaev chain with Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Such MZMs can be detected by e.g., tunneling conductance between each QD and normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Miguel Alvarado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Ramón Aguado , Rubén Seoane Souto

We show that confined Majorana fermions can exist in nanowires with proximity induced s-wave superconducting pairing if the direction of an external magnetic field rotates along the wire. The system is equivalent to nanowires with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Morten Kjaergaard , Konrad Wölms , Karsten Flensberg

We evaluate theoretically the possibility to realize Majorana zero modes in hybrid devices made from topological-insulator (TI) nanowires proximity-coupled to a superconductor. Such systems have been suggested as building blocks of future…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Leonard Kaufhold , Achim Rosch

We show that nonzero drag current in a double quantum-dot system, consisting of a biased drive dot and an unbiased passive dot coupled capacitively, can be generated by a Majorana bound state located at one of the leads connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xiao Xiao , Jian-Xin Zhu

Time-reversal breaking topological superconductors are new states of matter which can support Majorana zero modes at the edge. In this paper, we propose a new realization of one-dimensional topological superconductivity and Majorana zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Gang Xu , Jing Wang , Binghai Yan , Xiao-Liang Qi

We theoretically investigate the transport signature of single and multiple Floquet Majorana end modes~(FMEMs), appearing in an experimentally feasible setup with Rashba nanowire~(NW) placed in closed proximity to a conventional $s$-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Debashish Mondal , Rekha Kumari , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha