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Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are bound midgap topological excitations at the ends of a 1D topological superconductor, which must come in pairs. If the two MZMs in the pair are sufficiently well-separated by a distance much larger than their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

We consider theoretically the physics of bulk topological superconductivity accompanied by boundary non-Abelian Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid systems consisting of finite wires in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu

1D superconductor-semiconductor nanowires are the leading candidates for topological quantum computation due to their ability to host non-Abelian Majorana zero modes (MZMs). However, the standard methods for identifying MZMs are often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Jacob R. Taylor , Sankar Das Sarma

Motivated by a recent breakthrough transport experiment [Phys. Rev. B.107.245423 (2023)] in Majorana nanowires, we theoretically investigate local and nonlocal transport in Majorana nanowires in various disorder regimes, correlating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sankar Das Sarma , Haining Pan

Disorder remains a major obstacle to realizing topological Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in superconductor-semiconductor nanowires, and we show how deep learning can be used to recover topological MZMs mitigating disorder even when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Jacob R. Taylor , Sankar Das Sarma

Majorana fermions in some model semiconductor nanowires proximity coupled with \emph{s}-wave superconductor have been investigated, as well as other intragap bound states in topological phase of a Rashba nanowire with non-uniform spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-11 Zhen-Hua Wang , Eduardo V. Castro , Hai-Qing Lin

The braiding of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) forms the fundamental building block for topological quantum computation. Braiding protocols which involve the physical exchange of MZMs are typically envisioned on a network of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Bill P. Truong , Kartiek Agarwal , T. Pereg-Barnea

We investigate the effect of correlated disorder on Majorana zero modes (MZMs) bound to magnetic vortices in two-dimensional topological superconductors. By starting from a lattice model of interacting fermions with a $p_x \pm i p_y$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-21 Casey Christian , Eugene F. Dumitrescu , Gábor B. Halász

We study a disordered superconducting nanowire, with broken time-reversal and spin-rotational symmetry, which can be driven into a topological phase with end Majorana bound states by an externally applied magnetic field. As a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

It was recently suggested that proximitized gate-defined Ge hole nanowires could serve as an alternative materials platform for the realization of topological Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Here, we theoretically study the expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Katharina Laubscher , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

We address an outstanding problem that represents a critical roadblock in the development of the Majorana-based topological qubit using semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures: the quantitative characterization of disorder effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Benjamin D. Woods , Sankar Das Sarma , Tudor D. Stanescu

Motivated by the recent experimental observation of the topological Anderson insulator in disordered atomic wires based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, we study disorder effects on a dimerized Kitaev superconductor chain which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Chun-Bo Hua , Rui Chen , Dong-Hui Xu , Bin Zhou

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical potential and magnetic field. The non-trivial topological state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 Tudor Stanescu , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

Disorder effects in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) nanowires, widely recognized as the main obstacle to realizing stable Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in these structures, have been systematically investigated theoretically in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-08 Purna P. Paudel , Nathan O. Smith , Tudor D. Stanescu

We develop a practical machine learning approach to determine the disorder landscape of Majorana nanowires by using training of the conductance matrix and inverting the conductance data in order to obtain the disorder details in the system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Jacob R. Taylor , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

Odd-frequency superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which Cooper pairing between electrons is entirely dynamical in nature. Majorana zero modes exhibit pure odd-frequency superconducting correlations due to their specific…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

Multi-channel spin-orbit quantum wires, when subjected to a magnetic field and proximity coupled to s-wave superconductor, may support Majorana states. We study what happens to these systems in the presence of disorder. Inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Patrick Neven , Dmitry Bagrets , Alexander Altland

Recent work on Majorana-bound states in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures has elucidated the key role of unintentional (and unknown) disorder (producing low-energy Andreev-bound states) in the system, which is detrimental to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Haining Pan , Jacob R. Taylor , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

We use the available transport measurements in the literature to develop a dataset for the likely amount of disorder in semiconductor (InAs and InSb) materials which are used in fabricating the superconductor-semiconductor nanowire samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Seongjin Ahn , Haining Pan , Benjamin Woods , Tudor D. Stanescu , Sankar Das Sarma

We study the interplay between disorder and interaction in one-dimensional topological superconductors which carry localized Majorana zero-energy states. Using Abelian bosonization and the perturbative renormalization group (RG) approach,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 Alejandro M. Lobos , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma
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