Interplay between Majorana and Shiba states in a minimal Kitaev chain coupled to a superconductor

Miguel Alvarado, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, Ramón Aguado +1

Two semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) coupled through a superconductor constitute a minimal realisation of a Kitaev chain with Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Such MZMs can be detected…