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We investigate the mesoscopic resistor-capacitor circuit consisting of a quantum dot coupled to spatially separated Majorana fermion modes in a chiral topological superconductor. We find substantially enhanced relaxation resistance due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-08 Minchul Lee , Mahn-Soo Choi

Despite extensive experimental efforts over the past two decades, the quest for Majorana fermions in superconductors remains inconclusive. We propose an experimental method that can conclusively confirm, or rule out, the existence of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 S. Forstner , H. Choi , G. I. Harris , A. Sawadsky , W. P. Bowen , C. G. Baker

Topological superconductors are associated with the appearance of Majorana bound states, with promising applications in topologically protected quantum computing. In this Letter, we study a system where a skyrmion crystal is interfaced with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-14 Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

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

Recently, Majorana Fermions (MFs) have attracted intensive attention due to their exotic statistics and possible applications in topological quantum computation (TQC). They are proposed to exist in various two-dimensional (2D) topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Qiu-Bo Cheng , Jing He , Su-Peng Kou

Majorana fermion (MF) whose antiparticle is itself has been predicted in condensed matter systems. Signatures of the MFs have been reported as zero energy modes in various systems. More definitive evidences are highly desired to verify the…

Majorana fermions that emerge on the surface of topological superconductors are charge neutral but can have higher-rank electric multipoles by allowing for account time-reversal and crystalline symmetries. Applying the general…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-21 Yuki Yamazaki , Takumi Funato , Ai Yamakage

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 propose an optical approach to monitor superconductors in conjunction with a normal metal layer. Effectively such a hybrid system represents a resonator, where electrons are strongly coupled with light. We show that the interaction of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-15 K. H. A. Villegas , V. M. Kovalev , F. V. Kusmartsev , I. G. Savenko

We investigate the persistent currents, spin-polarized local density of states, and spectral functions of topological superconductors constructed by placing ferromagnetic impurities on top of an s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit…

I. Introduction (What is new in RMT, Superconducting quasiparticles, Experimental platforms) II. Topological superconductivity (Kitaev chain, Majorana operators, Majorana zero-modes, Phase transition beyond mean-field) III. Fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 C. W. J. Beenakker

The non-Abelian topological order for superconductors is characterized by the existence of zero-energy Majorana fermions in edges of systems and in a vortex of a macroscopic condensate, which obey the non-Abelian statistics. This paper is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-13 Masatoshi Sato , Yoshiro Takahashi , Satoshi Fujimoto

We study the condition for a topological superconductor (TS) phase with end Majorana fermions to appear when a quasiperiodic lattice modulation is applied to a one-dimensional quantum wire with strong spin-orbit interaction situated under a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

The search for a Majorana Fermion has been an area of intense interest in condensed matter research of late. This elusive particle, predicted to exist in 1937, has been sought after for both fundamental and practical reasons. On the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-20 Aaron Farrell

We theoretically study the emergence of topological magnons in electron-magnon coupled systems. The magnon dispersion in a ferromagnet usually possesses an effective time reversal symmetry in the absence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-02 Kosuke Fujiwara , Takahiro Morimoto

We consider a wire network of ferromagnetic impurities on the surface of an $s$-wave superconductor with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Within the topological phase, zero-energy Majorana fermions appear at wire end-points as well as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-14 Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions--whose defining property is that they are their own anti-particles--has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino physics and dark matter searches to the fractional quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason Alicea

We propose a one-dimensional Hamiltonian $H_{1D}$ which supports Majorana fermions when $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$-wave superfluid appears in the ultracold atomic system and obtain the phase-separation diagrams both for the time-reversal-invariant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-06 Zhongbo Yan , Xiaosen Yang , Shaolong Wan

Topological superconductors are believed to host exotic quasiparticle excitations known as Majorana zero-modes, with much of the evidence based on BCS mean-field theory. The direct application of mean-field arguments is tenuous in finite,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaden Thomas-Markarian , Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

Motivated by recent experiments searching for Majorana zero modes in tripartite semiconductor nanowires with epitaxial superconductor and ferromagnetic-insulator layers, we explore the emergence of topological superconductivity in such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Josias Langbehn , Sergio Acero Gonzalez , Piet W. Brouwer , Felix von Oppen