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Recent tunneling conductance measurements on semiconductor-superconductor nanowires find zero-bias peaks to be ubiquitous across wide ranges of chemical potential and Zeeman energy. Motivated by this, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Benjamin D. Woods , Jun Chen , Sergey M. Frolov , Tudor D. Stanescu

Non-Abelian anyons such as Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have the potential to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing through topological protection. Experimentally reported InSb topological superconductor nanowires (TSNW) are investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Mirko Poljak

We analyze Andreev bound states (ABSs) that form in normal sections of a Rashba nanowire that is only partially covered by a superconducting layer. These ABSs are localized close to the ends of the superconducting section and can be pinned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Richard Hess , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We demonstrate how to design various nonstandard types of Andreev-bound-state (ABS) dispersions, via a composite construction relying on Majorana bound states (MBSs). Here, the MBSs appear at the interface of a Josephson junction consisting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-23 Panagiotis Kotetes , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems that have been proposed as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers [1]. They are expected to exhibit non-Abelian particle statistics, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 S. M. Albrecht , A. P. Higginbotham , M. Madsen , F. Kuemmeth , T. S. Jespersen , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

A hallmark of topological superconductivity is the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS), its chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. The resulting fractionalization of a single electron, stored nonlocally as a two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , Kasra Sardashti , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

Majorana bound states emerge in topological superconductors as zero-energy edge states exhibiting spatial nonlocality. Despite the enormous advances, the detection of Majorana bound states is still challenging mainly because topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Vimalesh Kumar Vimal , Jorge Cayao

Majorana zero mode (MZM) exhibits inherent resilience to local parametric fluctuations, due to the topological protection mechanism in the non-Abelian braiding statistics of the anyonic quasiparticles. In this paper, we construct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Zhu-yao Jin , Jun Jing

Recent studies in the realization of Majorana fermion (MF) quasiparticles have focused on engineering topological superconductivity by combining conventional superconductors and spin-textured electronic materials. We propose an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Ruizhi Pan , Charles W. Clark

We propose Majorana-assisted nonlocal spin correlation as a manifestation of Majorana nonlocality in quasi-one-dimensional (1D) Kitaev spin liquids. Focusing on the flux-free sector of the Kitaev honeycomb model in a quasi-1D geometry, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-27 Yuki Yamazaki , Shingo Kobayashi , Akira Furusaki

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 relation between band topology and Majorana zero energy modes (MZMs) in topological superconductors had been well studied in the past decades. However, the relation between the quantum metric and MZMs has yet to be understood. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-26 Xingyao Guo , Xinglei Ma , Xuzhe Ying , K. T. Law

We demonstrate how the boundary-driven reconstruction of the superconducting order parameter can be employed to manipulate the zero-energy Majorana bound states (MBSs) occurring in a topological Josephson junction. We focus on an interface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-23 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Panagiotis Kotetes , Mario Cuoco

The emergence of Majorana bound states in finite length superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems has been predicted to occur in the form of oscillatory energy levels with parity crossings around zero energy. Each zero-energy crossing is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Jorge Cayao

Topological orders have been intrinsically identified in a class of systems such as fractional quantum Hall states and spin liquids. Accessing such states often requires extreme conditions such as low temperatures, high magnetic fields,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-09 Fatemeh Mohammadi , Mehdi Kargarian

Hybrid superconductor-semiconducting nanowire devices provide an ideal platform to investigating novel intragap bound states, such as the Andreev bound states (ABSs), Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states, and the Majorana bound states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 S. Li , N. Kang , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

Here we show the first experimental implementation of the fully general Kitaev chain with complex-valued order parameter $\Delta$ and site-varying synthetic chemical potential $\mu$, using a passive multilayer acoustic resonator design and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jackson Saunders , Emil Prodan , Camelia Prodan

There has been recent interest in superconductor-magnetic insulator hybrid Rashba nanowire setups for potentially hosting Majorana zero modes at smaller external Zeeman fields. Using the non-equilibrium Green's function technique, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Roshni Singh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Braiding and fusion of Majorana zero modes are key elements of any future topological Majorana-based quantum computer. Here, we investigate the fusion dynamics of Majorana zero modes in the spinless Kitaev model, as well as in a spinful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Themba Hodge , Tuan Kieu , Jasmin Bedow , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Two-dimensional electron gases with strong spin-orbit coupling covered by a superconducting layer offer a flexible and potentially scalable platform for Majorana networks. We predict Majorana bound states (MBSs) to appear for experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Michael Hell , Karsten Flensberg , Martin Leijnse