Nontrivial fusion of Majorana zero modes in interacting quantum-dot arrays

B Pandey, S Okamoto, E Dagotto - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Motivated by recent experimental reports of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in quantum-dot
systems at the “sweet spot,” where the electronic hop** th is equal to the superconducting …

Multilocational Majorana zero modes

Y Nagae, AP Schnyder, Y Tanaka, Y Asano, S Ikegaya - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We show the appearance of an unconventional Majorana zero mode whose wave function
splits into multiple parts located at different ends of different one-dimensional topological …

Effect of interatomic repulsion on Majorana zero modes in a coupled quantum-dot–superconducting-nanowire hybrid system

RK Takagui Pérez, AA Aligia - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the low-energy eigenstates of a topological superconductor wire modeled by a
Kitaev chain, which is connected at one of its ends to a quantum dot through nearest …

Crystalline-symmetry-protected Majorana modes in coupled quantum dots

B Pandey, G Alvarez, E Dagotto, RX Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a minimalist architecture for achieving various crystalline-symmetry-protected
Majorana modes in an array of coupled quantum dots. Our framework is motivated by the …

Superconducting magnetoelectric effects in mesoscopic hybrid structures

M Tanhayi Ahari, Y Tserkovnyak - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In superconductors that lack inversion symmetry, a supercurrent flow can lead to
nondissipative magnetoelectric effects. We offer a straightforward formalism to obtain a …

Secondary proximity effect in a side-coupled double quantum dot structure

JN Wang, YC **ong, WH Zhou, T Peng, Z Wang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Semiconductor quantum dots in close proximity to superconductors may provoke localized
bound states within the superconducting energy gap known as the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov state …

Anomalous topology and synthetic flat band in multi-terminal Josephson Junctions

A Mukhopadhyay, U Khanna, S Das - arxiv preprint arxiv:2309.15159, 2023 - arxiv.org
Andreev bound states trapped in a multi-terminal Josephson junction (JJ) can be assigned a
synthetic band topology owing to their periodic dependence on the Josephson phase bias …

Superconducting triangular islands as a platform for manipulating Majorana zero modes

A Winblad, H Chen - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Current proposals for topological quantum computation (TQC) based on Majorana zero
modes (MZMs) have mostly been focused on coupled-wire architecture which can be …