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Theory of electronic transport through a triangular triple quantum dot subject to a perpendicular magnetic field is developed using a tight binding model. We show that magnetic field allows to engineer degeneracies in the triple quantum dot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , P. Hawrylak

We propose a minimalist architecture for achieving various crystalline-symmetry-protected Majorana modes in an array of coupled quantum dots. Our framework is motivated by the recent experimental demonstrations of two-site and three-site…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Bradraj Pandey , Gonzalo Alvarez , Elbio Dagotto , Rui-Xing Zhang

The possibility to engineer artificial Kitaev chains in arrays of quantum dots coupled via narrow superconducting regions has emerged as an attractive way to overcome the disorder issues that complicate the realization and detection of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Athanasios Tsintzis , Rubén Seoane Souto , Karsten Flensberg , Jeroen Danon , Martin Leijnse

We study a dimerised spin chain with biaxial magnetic interacting ions in the presence of an externally induced three-site interactions out of equilibrium. In the general case, the three-site interactions play a role in renormalizing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-06 Wen-Long You , Cheng-Jie Zhang , Weihai Ni , Ming Gong , Andrzej M. Oleś

We introduce a density matrix-based network analysis to explore the ground state of the Kitaev chain, uncovering previously hidden structural and entanglement features. This approach successfully identifies the critical point associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Guillem Llodrà , Roberta Zambrini , Gian Luca Giorgi

The Majorana tetron is a prototypical topological qubit stemming from the ground state degeneracy of a superconducting island hosting four Majorana modes. This degeneracy manifests as an effective non-local spin degree of freedom, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Maximilian Nitsch , Lorenzo Maffi , Virgil V. Baran , Rubén Seoane Souto , Jens Paaske , Martin Leijnse , Michele Burrello

We show that the pair of Majorana modes at each end of a 1D spin triplet superconductor with total Cooper pair spin S_x=0 (i.e., Delta_{up,up} = -Delta_{down,down} = p*Delta_0; two uncoupled time reversed copies of the Kitaev p-wave chain)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 E. Dumitrescu , Sumanta Tewari

Topological stability is an important property for topological materials. However, the non-Hermitian effects may change this situation. Here, we investigate the robustness of edge states in the non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with imbalanced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-08 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Cui-Xian Guo , Su-Peng Kou , Lin-Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

Noncentrosymmetric superconductors with line nodes are expected to possess topologically protected flat zero-energy bands of surface states, which can be described as Majorana modes. We here investigate their fate if residual interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-05 Janna E. Rückert , Gergő Roósz , Carsten Timm

The magnetic character of the ground-state of two electrons on a double quantum dot, connected in series to left and right single-channel leads, is considered. By solving exactly for the spectrum of the two interacting electrons, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Levinson

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 study the possibility to realize Majorana zero mode that's robust and may be easily manipulated for braiding in quantum computing in the ground state of the Kitaev model in this work. To achieve this we first apply a uniform [111]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Lu Yang , Jia-Xing Zhang , Shuang Liang , Wei Chen , Qiang-Hua Wang

We study one-dimensional topological superconductivity in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. This phase is characterized by having a bulk gap, while supporting a Kramers' pair of zero-energy Majorana bound states at each of its ends.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Arbel Haim , Konrad Wölms , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg , Karsten Flensberg

Recent experiments engineered special spin-degenerate Andreev bound states in atomic cages of adatoms on superconductors, the Machida-Shibata states, a promising building block for quantum matter. Here, we investigate the formation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-13 Ioannis Ioannidis , Ching-Kai Chiu , Thore Posske

We study the properties of a quantum dot coupled to a one-dimensional topological superconductor and a normal lead and discuss the interplay between Kondo and Majorana-induced couplings in quantum dot. The latter appears due to the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Meng Cheng , Michael Becker , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn

Quantum dot-superconductor arrays have emerged as a new and promising material platform for realizing topological Kitaev chains. So far, experiments have implemented a two-site chain with limited protection. Here we propose an…

Majorana modes emerge in non-trivial topological phases at the edges of some specific materials, like proximitized semiconducting nanowires under a external magnetic field. Ideally, they are non-local states that are charge neutral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Samuel D. Escribano , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

We study a one-dimensional (1D) chain of $2N$ Majorana bound states, which interact through a local quartic interaction. This model describes for example the edge physics of a quasi 1D stack of $2N$ Kitaev chains with modified time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz , Alessandro Romito , Dganit Meidan

We suggest a way to overcome the obstacles that disorder and high density of states pose to the creation of unpaired Majorana fermions in one-dimensional systems. This is achieved by splitting the system into a chain of quantum dots, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Ion C. Fulga , Arbel Haim , Anton R. Akhmerov , Yuval Oreg

A quantum computer based on Majorana qubits would contain a large number of zero-energy Majorana states. This system can be modelled as a connected network of the Ising-Kitaev chains alternating the "trivial" and "topological" regions, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 B. N. Narozhny