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Electron transport through the T-shaped quantum-dot (QD) structure is theoretically investigated, by considering a Majorana zero mode coupled to the terminal QD. It is found that in the double-QD case, the presence of the Majorana zero mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Wei-Jiang Gong , Shu-Feng Zhang , Zhi-Chao Li , Guangyu Yi , Yi-Song Zheng

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems that have been proposed as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers [1]. They are expected to exhibit non-Abelian particle statistics, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 S. M. Albrecht , A. P. Higginbotham , M. Madsen , F. Kuemmeth , T. S. Jespersen , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

Majorana zero modes are expected to arise in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems, with potential topological quantum computing applications. One limitation of this approach is the need for a relatively high external magnetic field…

Manipulation of decoupled Majorana zero modes (MZMs) could enable topologically-protected quantum computing. However, the practical realization of a large number of perfectly decoupled MZMs needed to perform nontrivial quantum computation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 D. B. Karki , K. A. Matveev , Ivar Martin

In this article, we study the quantum transport through a single-level quantum-dot in Kondo regime, coupled to current leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors, each hosting Majorana zero modes at their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 G. A. Lara , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana

We consider a quantum wire, containing two Majorana bound states (MBS) at its ends that are coupled to a current lead on one side and to a quantum dot (QD) on the other side. Using the method of full counting statistics we calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Alexander Schuray , Luzie Weithofer , Patrik Recher

Motivated by recent experiments we consider transport across an interacting magnetic impurity coupled to the Majorana zero mode (MZM) observed at the boundary of a topological superconductor (SC). In the presence of a finite tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Daniele Guerci , Andrea Nava

A minimal model for the hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire Majorana platform is developed that fully captures the effects of the low-energy renormalization of the nanowire modes arising from the presence of the parent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sankar Das Sarma

Majorana zero modes at the boundaries of topological superconductors are charge-neutral, an equal superposition of electrons and holes. This ideal situation is, however, hard to achieve in physical implementations, such as proximitised…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 Fernando Domínguez , Jorge Cayao , Pablo San-Jose , Ramón Aguado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

We present a theoretical analysis of quasiparticle poisoning in Coulomb-blockaded Majorana fermion systems tunnel-coupled to normal-conducting leads. Taking into account finite-energy quasiparticles, we derive the effective low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 S. Plugge , A. Zazunov , E. Eriksson , A. M. Tsvelik , R. Egger

The nonlocal nature of the fermionic mode spanned by a pair of Majorana bound states in a one-dimensional topological superconductor has inspired many proposals aiming at demonstrating this property in transport. In particular, transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Jascha Ulrich , Fabian Hassler

The topological Kondo effect is a genuine manifestation of the nonlocality of Majorana modes. We investigate its out-of-equilibrium signatures in a model with a Cooper-pair box hosting four of these topological modes, each connected to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-27 Matteo M. Wauters , Chia-Min Chung , Lorenzo Maffi , Michele Burrello

We study quantum entanglement in a system comprising two quantum dots interconnected through the short topological superconducting nanowire, which hosts overlapping boundary Majorana modes. Inspecting the fermionic negativity, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 C. Jasiukiewicz , A. Sinner , I. Weymann , T. Domański , L. Chotorlishvili

Coulomb blockaded transport of topological superconducting nanowires provides an opportunity to probe the localization of states at both ends of the system in a two-terminal geometry. In addition, it provides a way for checking for subgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Yi-Hua Lai , Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau

We study the dynamics and readout of topological qubits encoded by zero-energy Majorana bound states in a topological superconductor. We take into account bosonic modes due to the electromagnetic environment which couple the Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 Morten I. K. Munk , Reinhold Egger , Karsten Flensberg

Spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot side attached to a topological superconductor and coupled to a pair of normal leads is discussed in Coulomb and Kondo regimes. For discussion of Coulomb range equation of motion method with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński , G. Cuniberti

We present a theoretical analysis of low-energy quantum transport in coupled Majorana box devices. A single Majorana box represents a Coulomb-blockaded mesoscopic superconductor proximitizing two or more long topological nanowires. The box…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Matthias Gau , Stephan Plugge , Reinhold Egger

We consider a quantum dot coupled to a topological superconductor and two normal leads and study transport properties of the system. Using Keldysh path-integral approach, we study current fluctuations (shot noise) within the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Dong E. Liu , Meng Cheng , Roman M. Lutchyn

We consider transport properties of a hybrid device composed by a quantum dot placed between normal and superconducting reservoirs, and coupled to a Majorana nanowire: a topological superconducting segment hosting Majorana zero-modes at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-03 L. S. Ricco , J. E. Sanches , Y. Marques , M. de Souza , M. S. Figueira , I. A. Shelykh , A. C. Seridonio

We investigate the subgap spectrum and transport properties of the quantum dot placed on interface between metallic and superconducting leads and additionally side-coupled to the edge of topological superconducting (TS) chain, hosting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 J. Baranski , A. Kobialka , T. Domanski