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The "Poor Man's Majoranas" (PMMs) [Phys. Rev. B 86, 134528 (2012)] devoid of topological protection can "spill over" from one edge into another of the minimal Kitaev chain when perturbed electrostatically. As aftermath, this leads to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 J. E. Sanches , L. T. Lustosa , L. S. Ricco , H. Sigurðsson , M. de Souza , M. S. Figueira , E. Marinho , A. C. Seridonio

The "Poor Man's Majorana" [Phys. Rev. B 86, 134528 (2012)] devoid of topological protection has been theoretically predicted to rely on the minimal Kitaev chain. Afterward, a pair of superconducting and spinless quantum dots turned the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 J. E. Sanches , L. T. Lustosa , L. S. Ricco , H. Sigurðsson , M. de Souza , M. S. Figueira , E. Marinho , A. C. Seridonio

It was predicted that a minimal chain of two quantum dots (QDs) connected via a superconductor can host perfectly localized zero-energy states, known as poor man's Majoranas (PMMs). It is expected that these states are related to Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Melina Luethi , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Poor man's Majoranas (PMMs) hold the promise to engineer Majorana bound states in a highly tunable setup consisting of a chain of quantum dots that are connected via superconductors. Due to recent progress in controlling the amplitudes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Melina Luethi , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Artificial Kitaev chains based on arrays of quantum dots are promising platforms for realizing Majorana Bound States (MBSs). In a two-site Kitaev chain, it is possible to find these non-Abelian zero-energy excitations at certain points in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Rodrigo A. Dourado , J. Carlos Egues , Poliana H. Penteado

Majorana modes can be engineered in arrays where quantum dots (QDs) are coupled via grounded superconductors, effectively realizing an artificial Kitaev chain. Minimal Kitaev chains, composed by two QDs, can host fully-localized Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 R. Seoane Souto , V. V. Baran , M. Nitsch , L. Maffi , J. Paaske , M. Leijnse , M. Burrello

Kitaev chains realized in quantum dots coupled via superconducting segments provide a controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In these systems, subgap states in the hybrid region mediate the effective coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 M. Alvarado , R. Seoane Souto , María José Calderón , Ramón Aguado

Quantum dot based platforms offer a promising route towards realizing the Kitaev chain Hamiltonian hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). Poor man's MBSs arise in a two-site Kitaev chain when the parameters of the system are fine-tuned to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Francesco Buonemani , Alvaro Gómez-León , Marco Schirò , Olesia Dmytruk

A minimal Kitaev chain, consisting of two quantum dots connected via a superconductor, can host highly localized near-zero-energy states, known as poor man's Majoranas (PMMs). These states have been proposed as promising candidates to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Melina Luethi , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

In a hybrid system consisting of two quantum dots (QDs) coupled to a superconductor (SC), zero-bias peaks in the differential conductance spectrum have been reported as potential signatures of Majorana fermions (MFs). However, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Zhi-Lei Zhang , Guo-Jian Qiao , C. P. Sun

Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such states can arise at the ends of a spinless $p$-wave…

Two semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) coupled through a superconductor constitute a minimal realisation of a Kitaev chain with Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Such MZMs can be detected by e.g., tunneling conductance between each QD and normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Miguel Alvarado , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Ramón Aguado , Rubén Seoane Souto

In a hybrid system where two quantum dots (QDs) are coupled to a conventional $s$-wave superconductor, Poor Man's Majorana modes (PMMs) have been proposed. Existing theories often idealize the superconductor (SC) as a bulk system or an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Zhi-Lei Zhang , Xin Yue , Guo-Jian Qiao , C. P. Sun

The possibility to engineer artificial Kitaev chains in arrays of quantum dots coupled via narrow superconducting regions has emerged as an attractive way to overcome the disorder issues that complicate the realization and detection of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Athanasios Tsintzis , Rubén Seoane Souto , Karsten Flensberg , Jeroen Danon , Martin Leijnse

We theoretically explore the emergence of strong zero modes in a two-site chain consisting of two quantum dots coupled due to a central dot that mediates electron hopping and singlet superconducting pairing. In the presence of time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 A. Mert Bozkurt , Sebastian Miles , Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf , Chun-Xiao Liu , Fabian Hassler , Michael Wimmer

We investigate Majorana modes in a quantum spin chain with bond-dependent exchange interactions by studying its dynamics. Specifically, we consider two-time correlations for the Kitaev-Heisenberg (KH) Hamiltonian close to the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Johannes Bjerlin , Anders S. Sørensen , Stephan Haas

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are non-Abelian excitations predicted to emerge at the edges of topological superconductors. One proposal for realizing a topological superconductor in one dimension involves a chain of spinless fermions, coupled…

Semiconductor-s-type superconductor nanowires host spinful fermions and cannot be reduced to a single spinless Kitaev chain hosting single Majorana zero mode. Instead, such systems can be converted into two coupled p-wave Kitaev-like chains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mijanur Islam , Mahan Mohseni , Ibsal Assi , Daniel Miravet , Pawel Hawrylak

Exchangeless braiding of Majorana modes is studied in minimal networks of weakly hybridized Kitaev chains of finite length using a rigorous many-body framework. In particular, for two coupled chains it is shown that exchangeless braiding is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Robin Quade , Michael Potthoff

We propose a nanodevice based on multi-terminal Josephson junctions for the creation and detection of poor man's Majorana (PMM) modes. The device consists of a double three-terminal Josephson junction (3TJJ) embedded in a planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Samuel D. Escribano , Anders Enevold Dahl , Karsten Flensberg , Yuval Oreg
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