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We study the interacting dimerized Kitaev chain at the symmetry point $\Delta=t$ and the chemical potential $\mu=0$ under open boundary conditions, which can be exactly solved by applying two Jordan-Wigner transformations and a spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-03 Yucheng Wang , Jian-Jian Miao , Hui-Ke Jin , Shu Chen

We present a detailed study of the phase diagram of the Kitaev-Hubbard chain, that is the Kitaev chain in the presence of a nearest-neighbour density-density interaction, using both analytical techniques as well as DMRG. In the case of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-21 Iman Mahyaeh , Eddy Ardonne

We study the static and dynamical properties of a long-range Kitaev chain, i.e., a $p$-wave superconducting chain in which the superconducting pairing decays algebraically as $1/l^{\alpha}$, where $l$ is the distance between the two sites…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Utso Bhattacharya , Somnath Maity , Amit Dutta , Diptiman Sen

It is interesting to ask whether electron interaction can turn a topologically trivial superconductor into a nontrivial one without the presence of spin-obital coupling. In this paper we solve a correlated $s$-wave superconducting model…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-27 Huai-Shuang Zhu , Zhidan Li , Qiang Han , Z. D. Wang

We propose a theoretical model to investigate the interplay between altermagnetism and $p$-wave superconductivity, with a particular focus on topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional (2D) $p$-wave superconductor, considering both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Pritam Chatterjee , Vladimir Juričić

We consider electron transport in a model of a spinless superconductor described by a Kitaev type lattice Hamiltonian where the electron interactions are modelled through a superconducting pairing term. The superconductor is sandwiched…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar

In the study of quantum spin liquids, the Kitaev model plays a pivotal role due to the fact that its ground state is exactly known as well as the fact that it may be realized in strongly frustrated materials such as ${\alpha}$-RuCl${}_3$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Axel Fünfhaus , Mikel García-Díez , M. G. Vergniory , Thilo Kopp , Stephen M. Winter , Roser Valentí

The spinless Falicov-Kimball model exhibits outside the particle-hole symmetric point different stable nonhomogeneous charge orderings. These include the well known charge stripes and a variety of orderings with phase separated domains,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-07 Rudolf Smorka , Martin Žonda , Michael Thoss

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

The topological characteristics of the $p$-wave Kitaev chains on a square lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor inter-chains hopping and pairing are investigated. Besides gapless exact zero-energy modes, this model…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-08 S. Srinidhi , Aayushi Agrawal , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

We investigate the topological properties of a dimerized Kitaev chain with long-range interactions, including the intercell hopping and superconducting pairing terms. It is found that even only when the intercell hopping term appears, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Xue-Si Li , Jia-Rui Li , Shu-Feng Zhang , Lian-Lian Zhang , Wei-Jiang Gong

Recent experimental investigations of arrays of magnetic atoms deposited on top of a superconductor have opened a new chapter in the search of topological superconductivity. We generalize the microscopic model derived by Pientka et al.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joel Röntynen , Teemu Ojanen

We elaborate on the topological order in the Kitaev chain, a p-wave superconductor with nearest-neighbor pairing amplitude equal to the hopping term Delta=t, and chemical potential mu=0. In particular, we write out the explicit eigenstates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-20 Martin Greiter , Vera Schnells , Ronny Thomale

We consider an exact solvable interacting spinful Kitaev chain which is a generalization of the Mattis-Nam model. A nearest-neighbor dimerized interaction favoring the production of disjoint molecules drives the quantum phase into an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Gianluca Francica , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

We show that networks of topological nanowires can realize the physics of exactly solvable Kitaev spin models with two-body interactions. This connection arises from the description of the low-energy theory of both systems in terms of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Graham Kells , Ville Lahtinen , Jiri Vala

We discover novel topological effects in the one-dimensional Kitaev chain modified by long-range Hamiltonian deformations in the hopping and pairing terms. This class of models display symmetry-protected topological order measured by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-20 O. Viyuela , D. Vodola , G. Pupillo , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We investigate the non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with non-reciprocal hopping amplitudes and asymmetric superconducting pairing. We work out the symmetry structure of the model and show that particle-hole symmetry (PHS) is preserved throughout…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Ayush Raj , Soham Ray , Sai Satyam Samal

We present a detailed study of the topological properties of the Kitaev chain with long-range pairing terms and in the presence of an Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper on-site potential. Specifically, we consider algebraically decaying superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Joana Fraxanet , Utso Bhattacharya , Tobias Grass , Debraj Rakshit , Maciej Lewenstein , Alexandre Dauphin

In this general article, we map the one-dimensional transverse field quantum Ising model of ferromagnetism to Kitaev's one-dimensional p-wave superconductor, which has its application in fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Mapping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Kartik Chhajed

The Kitaev superconducting chain is a model of spinless fermions with triplet-like superconductivity. It has raised interest since for some values of its parameters it presents a non-trivial topological phase that host Majorana fermions.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-22 Edine Silva , R. C. Bento Ribeiro , Heron Caldas , Mucio A. Continentino