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We investigate the low-energy theory of a one-dimensional finite capacitance topological Josephson junction. Charge fluctuations across the junction couple to resonant microwave fields and can be used to probe microscopic excitations such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Konstantin Yavilberg , Eran Ginossar , Eytan Grosfeld

We study low-lying electron levels in an "antidot" capturing a coreless vortex on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of disorder. The surface is covered with a superconductor film with a hole of size R…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 P. A. Ioselevich , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. V. Feigel'man

We study Andreev bound state (ABS) and surface density of state (SDOS) of non-centrosymmetric superconductor where spin-singlet $d$-wave pairing mixes with spin-triplet $p$ (or $f)$-wave one by spin-orbit coupling. For $d_{xy} + p$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-05 Keiji Yada , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama

Majorana modes are zero-energy excitations of a topological superconductor that exhibit non-Abelian statistics. Following proposals for their detection in a semiconductor nanowire coupled to an s-wave superconductor, several tunneling…

Kitaev chain is a theoretical model of a one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana zero modes at the two ends of the chain. With the goal of emulating this model, we build a chain of three quantum dots in a semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Hao Wu , Po Zhang , John P. T. Stenger , Zhaoen Su , Jun Chen , Ghada Badawy , Sasa Gazibegovic , Erik P. A. M. Bakkers , Sergey M. Frolov

The goal of creating topologically protected qubits using non-Abelian anyons is currently one of the most exciting areas of research in quantum condensed matter physics. Majorana zero modes (MZM), which are non-Abelian anyons predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Berthold Jäck , Yonglong Xie , Ali Yazdani

Majorana-zero-modes (MZMs) were predicted to exist as edge states of a physical system called the Kitaev chain. MZMs should host particles that are their own antiparticles and could be used as a basis for a qubit which is robust-to-noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Marko J. Rančić

Majorana bound states are expected to appear in one-dimensional semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems, provided they are homogenous enough to host a global topological phase. In order to experimentally investigate the uniformity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Qingzhen Wang , Yining Zhang , Saurabh Karwal , Srijit Goswami

We theoretically investigate the transport and shot noise properties of a one-dimensional semiconducting nanowire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling~(SOC) placed in closed proximity to a bulk $s$-wave superconductor and an altermagnet with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Debashish Mondal , Amartya Pal , Arijit Saha , Tanay Nag

We theoretically study scanning gate microscopy of a superconductor-proximitized semiconducting wire focusing on the potential for detection of Majorana bound states. We exploit the possibility to create a local potential perturbation by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 S. Maji , M. P. Nowak

Andreev bound states (ABS) at the surface of superconductors are expected for any pair potential showing a sign change in different k-directions with their spectral weight depending on the relative orientation of the surface and the pair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Alff , S. Kleefisch , U. Schoop , M. Zittartz , T. Kemen , T. Bauch , A. Marx , R. Gross

To guide experimental work on the search for Majorana zero-energy modes, we calculate the superconducting pairing symmetry of a three-dimensional topological insulator in combination with an s-wave superconductor. In analogy to the case of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-28 M. Snelder , A. A. Golubov , Y. Asano , A. Brinkman

This paper studies an extended Kitaev chain with three sublattices per unit cell. This extended version is obtained by hybridizing a modified Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model featuring trimerized unit cells with the standard Kitaev chain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Mohammad Ghuneim , Raditya Weda Bomantara

Braiding Majorana zero modes (MZMs) is the key procedure toward topological quantum computation. However, the complexity of the braiding manipulation hinders its experimental realization. Here we propose an experimental setup composing of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Jie Liu , Wenqin Chen , Ming Gong , Yijia Wu , X. C. Xie

We investigate the spectral and transport properties of a double quantum dot laterally attached to a topological superconducting nanowire, hosting the Majorana zero-energy modes. Specifically, we consider a geometry, in which the outer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Piotr Majek , Grzegorz Górski , Tadeusz Domański , Ireneusz Weymann

Majorana zero modes can appear at the wire ends of a 1D topological superconductor and manifest themselves as a quantized zero-bias conductance peak in the tunneling spectroscopy of normal-superconductor junctions. However, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Haining Pan , Chun-Xiao Liu , Michael Wimmer , Sankar Das Sarma

Andreev bound states (ABSs) are studied in quantum dot coupled to conventional BCS superconducting leads on the basis of effective slave boson Hamiltonian in an infinite-U (Coulomb interaction) limit followed by Green's function technique.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Tanuj Chamoli , Ajay

In this work, we investigate the tunneling characteristics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in vortex lattices based on scanning tunneling microscopy measurement. We find that zero bias conductance does not reach the quantized value owing to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-27 Jiong Mei , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

We propose a scheme to detect the Majorana bound states (MBSs) by a thermodynamically stable D.C. Josephson current with $4\pi$-periodicity in the superconducting phase difference, which is distinct from the previous A.C. $4\pi$-periodicity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-22 Zhan Cao , Tie-Feng Fang , Hong-Gang Luo

Recently, exciting progress has been made in using the superconducting nanowires coupled to gate-defined quantum dots (QDs) to mimic the Kiteav chain and realize the Majorana-bound states via a poor man's route. The essential ingredient is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Zhi-Hai Liu , Chuanchang Zeng , H. Q. Xu