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We investigate the topological phases of two one-dimensional (1D) interacting superconducting wires and propose topological markers directly measurable from ground state correlation functions. These quantities remain powerful tools in the…

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A superconducting wire described by a p-wave pairing and a Kitaev Hamiltonian exhibits Majorana fermions at its edges and is topologically protected by symmetry. We consider two Kitaev wires (chains) coupled by a Coulomb type interaction…

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We develop a Gaussian variational approach in replica space to investigate the phase diagram of a one-dimensional interacting disordered topological superconducting wire in the strong coupling regime. This method allows for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Francois Crépin , Gergely Zaránd , Pascal Simon

Among the broad spectrum of systems predicted to exhibit topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions, one-dimensional wires with strong spin-orbit coupling provide one of the most promising experimental candidates. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-15 E. M. Stoudenmire , Jason Alicea , Oleg A. Starykh , Matthew P. A. Fisher

An array of quantum wires is a natural starting point in realizing two-dimensional topological phases. We study a system of weakly coupled quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, proximity coupled to a conventional s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Inbar Seroussi , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

Tricritical Ising (TCI) phase transition is known to occur in several interacting spin and Majorana fermion models and is described in terms of a supersymmetric conformal field theory (CFT) with central charge $c=7/10$. The field content of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-15 Chengshu Li , Hiromi Ebisu , Sharmistha Sahoo , Yuval Oreg , Marcel Franz

A spin-orbit coupled quantum wire, with one end proximate to an s-wave superconductor, can become a topological superconductor, with a Majorana mode localized at each end of the superconducting region. It was recently shown that coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-26 Yashar Komijani , Ian Affleck

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

Superconducting wires with broken time-reversal and spin-rotational symmetries can exhibit two distinct topological gapped phases and host bound Majorana states at the phase boundaries. When the wire is tuned to the transition between these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Daniil S. Antonenko , Eslam Khalaf , Pavel M. Ostrovsky , Mikhail A. Skvortsov

We present a comprehensive study of two of the most experimentally relevant extensions of Kitaev's spinless model of a 1D p-wave superconductor: those involving (i) longer range hopping and superconductivity and (ii) inhomogeneous…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-08 Wade DeGottardi , Manisha Thakurathi , Smitha Vishveshwara , Diptiman Sen

In this study, the problem of strong Coulomb interactions in topological superconducting wire is analyzed by means of the density-matrix-renormalization-group (DMRG) approach. To analyze properties of edge states in the BDI-class structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 S. V. Aksenov , A. O. Zlotnikov , M. S. Shustin

We investigate the robustness of Majorana edge modes under disorder and interactions. We exploit a recently found mapping of the interacting Kitaev chain in the symmetric region ($\mu = 0$, $t = \Delta$) to free fermions. Extending the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Max McGinley , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Just like insulators can host topological Dirac states at their edges, superconductors can also exhibit topological phases characterized by Majorana edge states. Remarkable zero-energy states have been recently observed at the two ends of…

Topological insulators (TIs) have attracted immense interest because they host helical surface states. Protected by time-reversal symmetry, they are robust to non-magnetic disorder. When superconductivity is induced in these helical states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-06 A. D. K. Finck , C. Kurter , Y. S. Hor , D. J. Van Harlingen

We study one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductors capacitively coupled to a microwave stripline cavity. By probing the light exiting from the cavity, one can reveal the electronic susceptibility of the $p$-wave superconductor. We analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Olesia Dmytruk , Mircea Trif , Pascal Simon

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

We investigate the topological phases in a coupled one-dimensional p-wave superconducting Fibonacci quasicrystal modeled by the quasiperiodic Kitaev chain. Recent studies have shown that the coupled system can host topological edge modes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-07 Koki Mizuno

Zeeman fields can drive semiconductor quantum wires with strong spin-orbit coupling and in proximity to s-wave superconductors into a topological phase which supports end Majorana fermions and offers an attractive platform for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Piet W. Brouwer , Mathias Duckheim , Alessandro Romito , Felix von Oppen

Superconducting wires without time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetries can be driven into a topological phase that supports Majorana bound states. Direct detection of these zero-energy states is complicated by the proliferation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , J. P. Dahlhaus , F. Hassler , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

Topology and disorder have deep connections and a rich combined influence on quantum transport. In order to probe these connections, we synthesized one-dimensional chiral symmetric wires with controllable disorder via spectroscopic…

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