21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Majorana Fermions in semiconductor-superconducting quantum dots with Rashba SOC and magnetic field

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15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e)) Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM) (DCMMP) T2-4 | (DPMCM)

Speaker

Mijanur Islam (Post Doctorate fellow, University of Ottawa)

Description

Semiconductor–superconductor nanowires are intrinsically spinful and cannot, in general, be reduced to a single spinless Kitaev chain. We show that such systems are naturally described as two coupled $p$-wave (Kitaev-like) chains associated with different spin sectors. Using bond Fermion formulation and exact diagonalization, we analyze parity resolved spectra and local spectral functions, demonstrating that a zero-energy mode emerges only in one effective chain and is strongly localized at the system boundaries, while the bulk remains gapped. Inter-chain coupling lifts parity degeneracy and redistributes low-energy spectral weight, providing a controlled framework to assess the stability of Majorana like modes in finite spinful nanowires.

Keyword-1 Majorana Fermions
Keyword-2 SM-SC quantum dots
Keyword-3 Topology

Authors

Dr Daniel Miravet Dr Ibsal Assi Mr Mahan Mohseni Mijanur Islam (Post Doctorate fellow, University of Ottawa) Prof. Pawel Hawrylak

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