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We investigate the magnetic characteristics and tunnelling signatures of a planar Josephson junction with Rashba spin-orbit coupling during the fusion of two Majorana vortices. By employing the topological phase diagram and conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Krishnan Ganesh , Derek K. K. Lee , Jiannis K. Pachos

We consider an experimentally feasible setup to demonstrate the existence and coherent dynamics of Majorana fermion. The transport setup consists of a quantum dot and a tunnel-coupled semiconductor nanowire which is anticipated to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Yunshan Cao , Peiyue Wang , Gang Xiong , Xin-Qi Li

We present certain exact analytical results for dynamical spin correlation functions in the Kitaev Model. It is the first result of its kind in non-trivial quantum spin models. The result is also novel: in spite of presence of gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Baskaran , Saptarshi Mandal , R. Shankar

Majorana Zero Modes (MZMs) are prime candidates for robust topological quantum bits, holding a great promise for quantum computing. Semiconducting nanowires with strong spin orbit coupling offers a promising platform to harness…

We investigate the admittance of a metallic quantum RC circuit with a spinful single-channel lead or equally with two conducting spin-polarized channels, in which Majorana fermions play a crucial role in the charge dynamics. We address how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Christophe Mora , Karyn Le Hur

The simplest continuum model of a one-dimensional non-interacting superconducting fermionic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase is studied in great detail using analytical methods. In a first step, we present a full exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Victor Chua , Katharina Laubscher , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Majorana qubits offer a promising way to store and manipulate quantum information by encoding it into the state of Majorana zero modes. As the information is stored in a topological property of the system, local noise cannot lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Christoph Ohm , Fabian Hassler

Majorana zero mode is an exotic quasi-particle excitation with non-Abelian statistics in topological superconductor systems, and can serve as the cornerstone for topological quantum computation, a new type of fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-27 Xianxin Wu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Gang Xu , Jiangping Hu , Chao-Xing Liu

Realizing Majorana modes in topological superconductors, i.e., the condensed-matter counterpart of Majorana fermions in particle physics, may lead to a major advance in the field of topologically-protected quantum computation. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

Demonstrating the non-Abelian Ising anyon statistics of Majorana zero modes in a physical platform still represents a major open challenge in physics. We here show that the linear low-frequency charge conductance of a Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-07 Andrea Nava , Reinhold Egger , Fabian Hassler , Domenico Giuliano

One-dimensional topological superconductors treated at the mean-field level host zero-energy edge Majorana modes, which encode topological degeneracy of their ground states. Geometric manipulations (braiding) of multiple wires can be used…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-19 Ivar Martin , Kartiek Agarwal

Majorana zero modes in condensed matter systems have been the subject of much interest in recent years. Their non-Abelian exchange statistics, making them a unique state of matter, and their potential applications in topological quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

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

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

The aim of this Tutorial is to give a pedagogical introduction into realizations of Majorana fermions, usually termed as Majorana bound states (MBS), in condensed matter systems with magnetic textures. We begin by considering the Kitaev…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Utkan Güngördü , Alexey A. Kovalev

We analyse an exactly solvable spin-$1/2$ chain which is a generalised version of Kitaev's honeycomb model. We show that every state of the system has a $2^{N/4}$ fold degeneracy, where $N$ is the number of sites. We present analytic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Abhinav Saket , S. R. Hassan , R. Shankar

We study quantum phase transitions in the honeycomb Kitaev model under a magnetic field, focusing on the topological nature of Majorana fermion excitations. We find a gapless phase between the low-field gapless quantum spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Joji Nasu , Yasuyuki Kato , Yoshitomo Kamiya , Yukitoshi Motome

Recent experimental advances in the field of cold atoms led to the development of novel techniques for producing synthetic dimensions and synthetic magnetic fields, thus greatly expanding the utility of cold atomic systems for exploring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-28 Or Golan , Eran Sela , Kirill Shtengel

Quantum spin liquids realized in the Kitaev model offer a platform for fractionalization of spin into two quasiparticles: itinerant Majoranas and localized visons. Introducing a uniform weak magnetic field associates a Majorana zero mode…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-23 Chihiro Harada , Atsushi Ono , Joji Nasu

Magnetic skyrmions are nanoscale spin configurations that can be efficiently created and manipulated. They hold great promises for next-generation spintronics applications. In parallel to these developments, the interplay of magnetism,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-24 Maxime Garnier , Andrej Mesaros , Pascal Simon