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We study a system of interacting spinless fermions in one dimension which, in the absence of interactions, reduces to the Kitaev chain [A. Yu Kitaev, Phys.-Usp. \textbf{44}, 131 (2001)]. In the non-interacting case, a signal of topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-22 Hosho Katsura , Dirk Schuricht , Masahiro Takahashi

We consider Josephson junctions on surfaces of three dimensional topological insulator nanowires. We find that in the presence of a parallel magnetic field, short junctions on nanowires show signatures of a perfectly transmitted mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-12 Roni Ilan , Jens H. Bardarson , H. -S. Sim , Joel E. Moore

A quantum computer based on Majorana qubits would contain a large number of zero-energy Majorana states. This system can be modelled as a connected network of the Ising-Kitaev chains alternating the "trivial" and "topological" regions, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 B. N. Narozhny

We show that a one dimensional ultra-cold Fermi gas with Rashba-like spin orbit coupling, a Zeeman field and intrinsic attractive interactions exhibits a novel topological superfluid state, which forms in spite of total number conservation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-09 Jonathan Ruhman , Ehud Altman

In this work we study interacting spinless fermions on a two-chain ladder with inter-chain pair tunneling while single-particle tunneling is suppressed at low energy. The model embodies a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry associated with the fermion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-03 Meng Cheng , Hong-Hao Tu

A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chaitanya Murthy , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

We investigate the Majorana fermions in a $T$-shaped semiconductor nanostructure with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic field in the proximity of an s-wave superconductor. It is found that the properties of the low-energy modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

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

The search for Majorana bound states in solid-state physics has been limited to materials which display a gap in their bulk spectrum. We show that such unpaired states appear in certain quasi-one-dimensional Josephson junctions arrays with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 M. Pino , A. M. Tsvelik , L. B. Ioffe

One promising avenue to study one-dimensional ($1$D) topological phases is to realize them in synthetic materials such as cold atomic gases. Intriguingly, it is possible to realize Majorana boundary modes in a $1$D number-conserving system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-17 Chun Chen , Wei Yan , C. S. Ting , Yan Chen , F. J. Burnell

A phase from an adiabatic exchange of Majorana bound states (MBS) reveals their exotic anyonic nature. For detecting this exchange phase, we propose an experimental setup consisting of a Corbino-geometry Josephson junction on the surface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-17 Sunghun Park , Patrik Recher

One-dimensional topological phases can host localized zero-energy modes that enable high-fidelity storage and manipulation of quantum information. Majorana fermion chains support a classic example of such a phase, having zero modes that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 Adam S. Jermyn , Roger S. K. Mong , Jason Alicea , Paul Fendley

It has been predicted that superconducting junctions made with topological nanowires hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) exhibit an anomalous 4\pi-periodic Josephson effect. Finding an experimental setup with these unconventional properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Ramon Aguado

Semiconducting nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the proximity with a superconductor and under a strong Zeeman field can potentially manifest Majorana zero modes at their edges and are a topical candidate for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Arnav Arora , Abhishek Kejriwal , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We investigate the collisions of Majorana zero modes, which are presented as inter-soliton collisional events in fermionic superfluids with spin-orbit coupling. Our results demonstrate that, the zero energy splitting, induced by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-27 Liang-Liang Wang , Wenjun Shao , Jian Li

We investigate the Josephson current in a Fano-Josephson junction formed by the direct coupling between two topological superconducting wires and their indirect coupling via a quantum dot. It is found that when two Majorana zero modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Gao Zhen , Shu-Feng Zhang , Ying Zhao , Guangyu Yi , Wei-Jiang Gong

We present a novel controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes. The platform consists of a ferromagnetic metallic wire placed among conventional superconductors, which are in proximity to ferromagnetic insulators. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Giorgos Livanas , Nikolaos Vanas , Georgios Varelogiannis

We present a scheme to use physical Majorana quasi-zero modes at each junction of a two-dimensional nanowire network to build a logical Majorana zero mode, the location of which is controllable through gate voltages. The wire-network is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Sayandip Dhara , Garry Goldstein , Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

Experimental signatures of Majorana zero modes in a single superconducting quantum wire with spin-orbit coupling have been reported as zero bias peaks in the tunneling spectroscopy. We study whether these zero modes can persist in an array…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Da Wang , Zhoushen Huang , Congjun Wu

Motivated by recent experimental progress in the realization of hybrid structures with a topologically superconducting nanowire coupled to a quantum dot, viewed through the lens of the emerging field of correlated Majorana fermions, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 G. Shankar , Joseph Maciejko