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Planar Josephson junctions are theoretically predicted to harbor zero-energy Majorana bound states (MBS) in a tunable two-dimensional geometry, at the two ends of the middle metallic channel. Here we show that three distinct topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

The proximity effect in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor structures, crucial for realizing Majorana edge modes, is complicated to control due to its dependence on many unknown microscopic parameters. In addition, defects can spoil the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 T. Ö. Rosdahl , A. Vuik , M. Kjaergaard , A. R. Akhmerov

We study all possible Majorana modes in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled ferromagnetic superconductor-normal state-superconductor (SNS) Josephson junctions and propose experiments to detect them. With the S region in a non-trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jacob Linder

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 present an analytical formulation of the thermodynamics, free energy and entropy, of any generic Bogoliubov de Genes model which develops exceptional point (EP) bifurcations in its complex spectrum when coupled to reservoirs. We apply…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 D. Michel Pino , Yigal Meir , Ramón Aguado

We propose a theoretical model describing a Josephson junction featuring a magnetically textured barrier within two-dimensional (2D) $p$-wave superconductor, considering both $p_x + p_y$ and $p_x + ip_y$ type pairing symmetries. Our study…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-29 Minakshi Subhadarshini , Amartya Pal , Pritam Chatterjee , Arijit Saha

Kitaev chain (KC) is a prototypical model for the study of Majorana fermions (MFs). In the topological phase, a KC hosts two MFs at its ends. Being separated in space, these two MFs are nonlocal. The nonlocal transport in a KC biased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Abhiram Soori

In condensed matter physics, non-Abelian statistics for Majorana zero modes (or Majorana Fermions) is very important, really exotic, and completely robust. The race for searching Majorana zero modes and verifying the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Cui-Xian Guo , Meng-Lei Yang , Heng-Wang , Wu-Ming Liu , Su-Peng Kou

A junction between two topological superconductors containing a pair of Majorana fermions exhibits a `fractional' Josephson effect, $4\pi$ periodic in the superconductors' phase difference. An additional fractional Josephson effect,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Liang Jiang , David Pekker , Jason Alicea , Gil Refael , Yuval Oreg , Felix von Oppen

We study the joint dynamics of the phase bias $\phi$ and the propagating Majorana fermions of the edge modes in Josephson junctions containing 2D time-reversal invariant topological superconductors (TRITOPS). We consider TRITOPS-TRITOPS…

We propose a phase-biased non-Hermitian Josephson junction (NHJJ) composed of two superconductors mediated by a short non-Hermitian link. Such a NHJJ is described by an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian derived based on the Lindblad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Chang-An Li , Hai-Peng Sun , Björn Trauzettel

A prominent signature of Majorana bound states is the exotic Josephson effects they produce, the classic example being a fractional Josephson current with 4\pi periodicity in the phase difference across the junction. Recent work established…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-06 Falko Pientka , Liang Jiang , David Pekker , Jason Alicea , Gil Refael , Yuval Oreg , Felix von Oppen

The fractional Josephson effect is known to be a characteristic phenomenon of topological Josephson junctions hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs), where the Josephson current has a $4\pi$ (rather than a $2\pi$) periodicity in the phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Shuntaro Sumita , Akira Furusaki

We perform switching current measurements of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) coupled by a common superconducting electrode, with independent control over the two superconducting phase differences. We observe an anomalous phase shift in the…

Majorana edge modes are candidate elements of topological quantum computing. In this work, we purpose a Floquet engineering approach to generate arbitrarily many non-Hermitian Majorana zero and $\pi$ modes at the edges of a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Longwen Zhou

Unequivocal signatures of Majorana zero energy modes in condensed matter systems and manipulation of the associated electron parity states are highly sought after for fundamental reasons as well as for the prospect of topological quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-20 Rosa Rodriguez-Mota , Smitha Vishveshwara , T. Pereg-Barnea

We study superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) Josephson junctions in one-dimensional topological superconductors which support more than one Majorana end mode. The variation of the energy spectrum with the superconducting phase is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Doru Sticlet , Cristina Bena , Pascal Simon

Josephson junctions coupled through magnetic textures provide a controllable platform for odd-frequency superconductivity and Majorana physics. Within a tight-binding Green function framework, induced pair correlations and spectral…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Ignacio Sardinero , Jorge Cayao , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

Majorana and trivial Andreev bound states are predicted to appear in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems, but their identification is still a challenging task. Here we consider superconducting junctions with Rashba spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-09 Eslam Ahmed , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

The analysis of waiting times of electron transfers has recently become experimentally accessible owing to advances in noninvasive probes working in the short-time regime. We study electron waiting times in a topological Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-21 Paramita Dutta , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Pablo Burset