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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

Motivated by recent experimental reports of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in quantum-dot systems at the ``sweet spot'', where the electronic hopping $t_h$ is equal to the superconducting coupling $\Delta$, we study the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Bradraj Pandey , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

Few-site implementations of the Kitaev chain offer a minimal platform to study the emergence and stability of Majorana bound states. Here, we realize two- and three-site chains in semiconducting quantum dots coupled via superconductors, and…

Braiding and fusion of Majorana zero modes are key elements of any future topological Majorana-based quantum computer. Here, we investigate the fusion dynamics of Majorana zero modes in the spinless Kitaev model, as well as in a spinful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Themba Hodge , Tuan Kieu , Jasmin Bedow , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Kitaev chains realized in quantum dots coupled via superconducting segments provide a controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In these systems, subgap states in the hybrid region mediate the effective coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 M. Alvarado , R. Seoane Souto , María José Calderón , Ramón Aguado

Artificial Kitaev chains, formed by quantum dots coupled via superconductors, have emerged as a promising platform for realizing Majorana bound states. Even a minimal Kitaev chain (a quantum dot--superconductor--quantum dot setup) can host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Rubén Seoane Souto , Athanasios Tsintzis , Martin Leijnse , Jeroen Danon

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) realize a representation of non-abelian braid groups that enable topological quantum computation, wherein the storage and manipulation of information occur in decoherence-free degrees of freedom. This paper is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-17 Sihao Huang

In a recent breakthrough experiment [Nature (London) 614, 445 (2023)], signatures of Majorana zero modes have been observed in tunnel spectroscopy for a minimal Kitaev chain constructed from coupled quantum dots. However, as Ising anyons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Chun-Xiao Liu , Haining Pan , F. Setiawan , Michael Wimmer , Jay D. Sau

We investigate Majorana modes in a quantum spin chain with bond-dependent exchange interactions by studying its dynamics. Specifically, we consider two-time correlations for the Kitaev-Heisenberg (KH) Hamiltonian close to the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Johannes Bjerlin , Anders S. Sørensen , Stephan Haas

Recent advances in quantum dot platforms have opened new pathways for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs) and simulating topological quantum computation. Here we propose an experimentally feasible setup for implementing topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Bradraj Pandey , Satoshi Okamoto , Pontus Laurell , Stephan Rachel , Elbio Dagotto

We employ a time-dependent real-space local density-of-states method to study the movement and fusion of Majorana zero modes in the 1D interacting Kitaev model, based on the time evolution of many-body states. We analyze the dynamics and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-04 Bradraj Pandey , Narayan Mohanta , Elbio Dagotto

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are non-Abelian excitations predicted to emerge at the edges of topological superconductors. One proposal for realizing a topological superconductor in one dimension involves a chain of spinless fermions, coupled…

Connecting double quantum dots via a semiconductor-superconductor hybrid segment offers a platform for creating a two-site Kitaev chain that hosts a pair of "poor man's Majoranas" at a finely tuned sweet spot. However, the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Chun-Xiao Liu , A. Mert Bozkurt , Francesco Zatelli , Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf , Tom Dvir , Michael Wimmer

Majorana modes can be engineered in arrays where quantum dots (QDs) are coupled via grounded superconductors, effectively realizing an artificial Kitaev chain. Minimal Kitaev chains, composed by two QDs, can host fully-localized Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 R. Seoane Souto , V. V. Baran , M. Nitsch , L. Maffi , J. Paaske , M. Leijnse , M. Burrello

We investigate the effects of coupling a local electromagnetic cavity to a segment of a topological Kitaev chain (KC), with particular emphasis on the interplay between photons and Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In addition to the well-known…

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

Topological phases in one-dimensional superconducting systems are commonly characterized by symmetry-protected invariants. These invariants determine the number of Majorana zero-energy boundary modes but do not specify their corresponding…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-11 Vijay Pathak , Vaishnav Mallya , Sujit Sarkar

A tunneling junction between normal electrode and a topological superconducting wire, mediated by a quantum dot, is considered theoretically. We show that the presence of the dot in the junction can be advantageous to Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Piotr Stefański

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 discuss a network of Kitaev wires coupled to several individually-tunable quantum dots as an extension of the recent experiments on a quantum dot coupled to a nanowire hosting Majorana zero modes [Deng et al. Science 354 1557 (2016) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Corneliu Malciu , Leonardo Mazza , Christophe Mora
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