Motivated by recent experiments, we investigate the excitation energy of a proximitized
Rashba wire in the presence of a position dependent pairing. In particular, we focus on the …

The simplest possible structural transition that an electronic system can undergo is Wigner
crystallization. The aim of this short review is to discuss the main aspects of three recent …

We investigate the performance of a one-dimensional dimerized XY chain as a spin
quantum battery. Such integrable model shows a rich quantum phase diagram that emerges …

Understanding the properties of far-from-equilibrium quantum systems is becoming a major
challenge of both fundamental and applied physics. For instance, the lack of thermalization …

We study the universal dynamical relaxation behaviors of a quantum XY chain following a
quench, paying special attention to the case in which the initial state is a critical ground …

We consider a quantum battery that is based on a two-level system coupled with a cavity
radiation by means of a two-photon interaction. Various figures of merit, such as stored …

Hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanowires with Rashba spin–orbit coupling are
arguably becoming the leading platform for the search of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in …

Landau theory's implicit assumption that microscopic details cannot affect the global phases
has been challenged only recently in systems such as antiferromagnetic quantum spin …

Topological superconductors give rise to unconventional superconductivity, which is mainly
characterized by the symmetry of the superconducting pairing amplitude. However, since the …

We study the light-cone velocity for global quenches in the noninteracting XY chain starting
from a class of initial states that are eigenstates of the local z component of the spin. We …