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It has been predicted that superconducting junctions made with topological nanowires hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) exhibit an anomalous 4\pi-periodic Josephson effect. Finding an experimental setup with these unconventional properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Ramon Aguado

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

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle states localized at the boundaries of topological superconductors that are expected to be ideal building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Several observations of zero-bias conductance peaks…

Disorder has appeared as one of the main mechanisms to induce topologically trivial zero-energy states in superconductor-semiconductor systems, thereby challenging the detection of topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-05 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Martin Leijnse , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

We study a semiconductor wire with strong spin-orbit coupling, which is proximity-coupled to a superconductor with chemical potential disorder. When tunneling at the semiconductor- superconductor interface is very weak, it is known that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-02 William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We theoretically consider transport properties of a normal metal (N)- superconducting semiconductor nanowire (S)-normal metal (N) structure (NSN) in the context of the possible existence of Majorana bound states in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

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

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems represent promising platforms to host Majorana zero modes (MZMs), the elemental building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Theoretical description of such MSH structures is mostly based…

We theoretically study topological planar Josephson junctions (JJs) formed from spin-orbit-coupled two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) proximitized by two superconductors and subjected to an in-plane magnetic field $B_\parallel$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 F. Setiawan , Ady Stern , Erez Berg

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) have emerged as a promising platform for the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes. To obtain robust quasi one-dimensional (1D) topological superconducting states using planar…

We study the low-energy physics of planar Josephson junction structures realized in a quasi-two dimensional semiconductor system proximity-coupled to narrow superconducting films. Using both a recursive Green's function approach and an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-27 Purna P. Paudel , Javad Shabani , Tudor D. Stanescu

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We study a superconductor-normal state-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction along the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) with a superconducting $\pi$-phase across the junction. We solve self-consistently for the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-05 Umberto Borla , Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

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.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 A. Zazunov , A. Iks , M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati , R. Egger

We theoretically investigate the localization properties of Majorana states (MSs) in proximitized, planar Josephson Junctions (JJs) oriented along different crystallographic orientations and in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-11 A. P. Garrido , P. A. Orellana , A. Matos-Abiague

We study how the shape of a periodic magnetic field affects the presence of Majorana bound states (MBS) in a nanowire-superconductor system. Motivated by the field configurations that can be produced by an array of nanomagnets, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Viktoriia Kornich , Maxim G. Vavilov , Mark Friesen , M. A. Eriksson , S. N. Coppersmith

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are central to fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Planar Josephson junctions provide a particularly versatile platform for realizing robust topological superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-29 Richang Huang , Yongliang Hu , Xianzhang Chen , Peng Yu , Siwei Tan , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity-coupled with an s-wave superconductor. We show that when odd number of subbands are occupied the system realizes non-trivial topological state supporting Majorana modes localized at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-03-31 Roman M. Lutchyn , Tudor Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

The interplay of interactions and disorder in low-dimensional superconductors supports the formation of multiple quantum phases, as possible instabilities of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition (SIT) at a singular quantum critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-09 Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni

The Josephson diode effect (JDE) has attracted significant attention for enabling directional, dissipationless supercurrents, positioning Josephson junctions as promising building blocks for next-generation quantum devices. Hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ardamon Sten , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh