Measuring Majorana nonlocality and spin structure with a quantum dot

E Prada, R Aguado, P San-Jose - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Robust zero-bias transport anomalies in semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced
superconductivity have been convincingly demonstrated in various experiments. While …

Two-dimensional platform for networks of Majorana bound states

M Hell, M Leijnse, K Flensberg - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We model theoretically a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) covered by a
superconductor and demonstrate that topological superconducting channels are formed …

Spin effects on transport and zero-bias anomaly in a hybrid Majorana wire-quantum dot system

A Huguet, K Wrześniewski, I Weymann - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We examine the impact of spin effects on the nonequilibrium transport properties of a
nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes at its ends, coupled to a quantum dot …

Probing Majorana physics in quantum-dot shot-noise experiments

DE Liu, M Cheng, RM Lutchyn - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We consider a quantum dot coupled to a topological superconductor and two normal leads
and study the transport properties of the system. Using a Keldysh path-integral approach, we …

Detection of a Majorana fermion zero mode by a T-shaped quantum-dot structure

WJ Gong, SF Zhang, ZC Li, G Yi, YS Zheng - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We investigate the electron transport through the T-shaped quantum-dot (QD) structure
theoretically, by coupling a Majorana zero mode to the terminal QD. It is found that in the …

Quantifying wave-function overlaps in inhomogeneous Majorana nanowires

F Peñaranda, R Aguado, P San-Jose, E Prada - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A key property of Majorana zero modes is their protection against local perturbations. In the
standard picture, this protection is guaranteed by a high degree of spatial nonlocality of the …

Topological phase detection in Rashba nanowires with a quantum dot

D Chevallier, P Szumniak, S Hoffman, D Loss… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We study theoretically the detection of the topological phase transition occurring in Rashba
nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity using a quantum dot. The bulk states …

Majorana wave-function oscillations, fermion parity switches, and disorder in Kitaev chains

SS Hegde, S Vishveshwara - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We study the decay and oscillations of Majorana fermion wave functions and ground-state
(GS) fermion parity in one-dimensional topological superconducting lattice systems. Using a …

Majorana/Andreev crossover and the fate of the topological phase transition in inhomogeneous nanowires

P Marra, A Nigro - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Majorana bound states (MBS) and Andreev bound states (ABS) in realistic Majorana
nanowires setups have similar experimental signatures which make them hard to …

Single-electron charge transfer into putative Majorana and trivial modes in individual vortices

JF Ge, KM Bastiaans, D Chatzopoulos, D Cho… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Majorana bound states are putative collective excitations in solids that exhibit the self-
conjugate property of Majorana fermions—they are their own antiparticles. In iron-based …