The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions—whose defining property is that they
are their own anti-particles—has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino …

A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological
insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as …

Motivated by an important recent experiment [Deng, Science 354, 1557 (2016) SCIEAS
0036-8075 10.1126/science. aaf3961], we theoretically consider the interplay between …

Motivated by the need to understand and simulate the ubiquitous experimentally observed
zero-bias conductance peaks in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures, we …

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana
fermion—the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles—has …

We show that an ordinary semiconducting thin film with spin-orbit coupling can, under
appropriate circumstances, be in a quantum topologically ordered state supporting exotic …

We study multiband semiconducting nanowires proximity coupled with an s-wave
superconductor and calculate the topological phase diagram as a function of the chemical …

We model theoretically a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) covered by a
superconductor and demonstrate that topological superconducting channels are formed …

We study the non-Abelian statistics characterizing systems where counterpropagating
gapless modes on the edges of fractional quantum Hall states are gapped by proximity …