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One fundamental difficulty in realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs) is the required high magnetic field, which causes serious issues, e.g., shrinks the superconducting gap, reduces topological region, and weakens their robustness against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Xiao-Hong Pan , Li Chen , Dong E. Liu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Xin Liu

The combination of a superconductor (SC) and a topological insulator (TI) nanowire was proposed as a potential candidate for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In this study, we adopt the Schr\"odinger-Poisson formalism to incorporate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Li Chen , Xiao-Hong Pan , Zhan Cao , Dong E. Liu , Xin Liu

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems represent promising platforms to host Majorana zero modes (MZMs), the elemental building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Theoretical description of such MSH structures is mostly based…

We evaluate theoretically the possibility to realize Majorana zero modes in hybrid devices made from topological-insulator (TI) nanowires proximity-coupled to a superconductor. Such systems have been suggested as building blocks of future…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Leonard Kaufhold , Achim Rosch

Topological insulator (TI) nanoribbons with proximity-induced superconductivity are a promising platform for Majorana bound states (MBSs). In this work, we consider a detailed modeling approach for a TI nanoribbon in contact with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Dennis Heffels , Declan Burke , Malcolm R. Connolly , Peter Schüffelgen , Detlev Grützmacher , Kristof Moors

The recent realization of pristine Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in vortices of iron-based superconductors (FeSCs) provides a promising platform for long-sought-after fault-tolerant quantum computation. A large topological gap between the MZMs…

Quantum engineering of topological superconductors and of the ensuing Majorana zero modes might hold the key for realizing a new paradigm for the implementation of topological quantum computing and topology-based devices.…

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are central to fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Planar Josephson junctions provide a particularly versatile platform for realizing robust topological superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-29 Richang Huang , Yongliang Hu , Xianzhang Chen , Peng Yu , Siwei Tan , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to show such a topological state rely on proximity-induced…

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…

Majorana Zero Modes (MZMs) are prime candidates for robust topological quantum bits, holding a great promise for quantum computing. Semiconducting nanowires with strong spin orbit coupling offers a promising platform to harness…

It was recently suggested that proximitized gate-defined Ge hole nanowires could serve as an alternative materials platform for the realization of topological Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Here, we theoretically study the expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Katharina Laubscher , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

Signatures of Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which are the building blocks for fault-tolerant topological quantum computing, have been observed in semiconductor nanowires (NW) with strong spin-orbital-interaction (SOI), such as InSb and InAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Zedong Yang , Brett Heischmidt , Sasa Gazibegovic , Ghada Badawy , Diana Car , Paul A. Crowell , Erik P. A. M. Bakkers , Vlad S. Pribiag

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are of central importance for modern condensed matter physics and quantum information due their non-Abelian nature, which thereby offers the possibility of realizing topological quantum bits. We here show that a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-30 Morten Amundsen , Vladimir Juričić

We consider the superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrid Majorana platform ("Majorana nanowire") in the presence of a deterministic spatially slowly varying inhomogeneous chemical potential and a random spatial quenched potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) emerge as edge states in topological superconductors and are promising for topological quantum computation, but their detection has so far been elusive. Here we show that non-Hermiticity can be used to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 R. Arouca , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

The iron-based superconductors (FeSCs) have recently emerged as a promising single-material Majorana platform by hosting isolated Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at relatively high temperatures. To further verify its Majorana nature and move…

The search for robust topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states continues, exploring both one-dimensional (1D) systems such as semiconducting nanowires and two-dimensional (2D) platforms. In this work we study a 2D approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Fernando Peñaranda , Ramón Aguado , Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose

Heterostructures comprised of a magnetic topological insulator (MTI) placed in the proximity of an $s$-wave superconductor have emerged as a platform for the practical realization of Majorana bound states (MBSs). More specifically, it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Eduárd Zsurka , Daniele Di Miceli , Julian Legendre , Llorenç Serra , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas L. Schmidt , Kristof Moors

We consider a new model system supporting Majorana zero modes based on semiconductor nanowires with a full superconducting shell. We demonstrate that, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling in the semiconductor induced by a radial electric…

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