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In this minireview, we outline the recent experimental and theoretical progress in the creation, characterization and manipulation of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in semiconductor-superconductor (SC) hybrid structures. After an introductory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Alexander Schuray , Daniel Frombach , Sunghun Park , Patrik Recher

A hallmark of topological superconductivity is the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS), its chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. The resulting fractionalization of a single electron, stored nonlocally as a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Kasra Sardashti , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

We propose an alternative route to transport experiments for detecting Majorana bound states (MBSs) by combining topological superconductivity with quantum optics in a superconducting $pn$ junction containing a quantum dot (QD). We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 L. Bittermann , C. De Beule , D. Frombach , P. Recher

In this work, we study the bound states in the continuum (BICs) in a system formed by a triple quantum dot array embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors, both hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs) at its ends. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 D. Zambrano , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , P. A. Orellana

The presence of a Majorana bound state in condensed matter systems is often associated to a zero bias peak in conductance measurements. Here, we analyze a system were this paradigm is violated. A Majorana bound state is always present at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Christoph Fleckenstein , Felix Keidel , Bjoern Trauzettel , Niccolo Traverso Ziani

We study a ring geometry, coupled to two normal metallic leads, which has a Majorana bound state (MBS) embedded in one of its arm and is threaded by Aharonov Bohm ($\mathcal{A}\mathcal{B}$) flux $\phi$. We show that by varying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Krashna Mohan Tripathi , Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

In this article we analyze the efficiency of operations based on transferring charge from a quantum dot (QD) to two coupled topological superconductors, which can be used for performing nonabelian operations on Majorana bound states (MBSs).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 R. Seoane Souto , K. Flensberg , M. Leijnse

We study the transport properties of a quantum dot-Majorana hybrid system, in which each of paired Majorana bound states is connected to one quantum dot. With the help of non-equilibrium Green's function method, we obtain an exact solution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hai-Feng Lu , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

We propose and theoretically investigate an alternative way to create the poor man's Majorana bound states (MBSs) introduced in Phys. Rev. B 86, 134528 (2012). Our proposal is based on two quantum dots (QDs) with strong electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Athanasios Tsintzis , Rubén Seoane Souto , Martin Leijnse

We consider the correlated parallel transport through two quantum dots which are tunnel-coupled to the ends of a semiconductor nanowire where the Majorana bound states (MBSs) may emerge under proper conditions. In terms of the…

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

We study the thermoelectric transport through a single-level quantum dot (QD) coupled to two normal metallic leads and side-coupled to Majorana bound state (MBS). The Coulomb interaction in QD is considered. To investigate only the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Chol Won Ri , Kum Hyok Jong , Song Jin Im , Hak Chol Pak

Electron teleportation via two separate Majorana bound states(MBSs) is a manifestation of the non-locality of MBSs. A superconductor may host multiple separate or partial overlapping MBSs, and it is difficult to distinguish them. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Bao-Long Liang , Zhen-Shan Yang

Topologically protected qubits based on nanostructures hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs) hold great promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing. We study the transport properties of nanowire networks hosting MBSs with a focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Johan Ekström , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

Topological superconductivity supports exotic Majorana bound states (MBS) which are chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. With their non-Abelian exchange statistics and fractionalization of a single electron stored nonlocally as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , William Mayer , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

We study the conductance afforded by a normal-metal probe which is directly contacting the helical edge modes of a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI). We show a $2e^2/h$ conductance peak at zero temperature in QSHI-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Bo Lu , Guanxin Cheng , Pablo Burset , Yukio Tanaka

We study a chain of magnetic impurities on a conventional superconductor with spin-orbit coupling, treating the superconducting order fully self-consistently. We find and quantify strong hybridization between the topological edge Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-11 Andreas Theiler , Kristofer Björnson , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Majorana Bound States (MBS) have emerged as promising candidates for robust quantum computing due to their non-Abelian statistics and topological protection. In this study, we focus on the dynamical transport of MBS in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Dibyajyoti Sahu , Suhas Gangadharaiah

We show that nonzero drag current in a double quantum-dot system, consisting of a biased drive dot and an unbiased passive dot coupled capacitively, can be generated by a Majorana bound state located at one of the leads connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xiao Xiao , Jian-Xin Zhu

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 two interacting quantum dots coupled by standard superconductors. We derive an effective Hamiltonian, and show that over a wide parameter range a degenerate ground state can be obtained. An exotique form of Majorana bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Thomas E. O'Brien , Anthony R. Wright , Menno Veldhorst