Dissipation-Induced Steady States in Topological Superconductors - Mechanisms and Design Principles

Attend a research seminar exploring the mechanisms and design principles for creating dissipation-induced steady states in topological superconductors, presented by Dr. Maksim S. Shustin from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. Discover how environmental dissipative fields can influence topological superconductors hosting unpaired Majorana modes and learn about the correspondence between equilibrium Majorana zero modes and non-equilibrium kinetic zero modes established through the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad framework and third quantization formalism. Explore the algebraic relationship between the numbers of these excitations expressed through hybridization between single-particle wavefunctions and linear dissipative fields. Examine practical recipes for stabilizing degenerate steady states in topological superconductors through controlled dissipation engineering, with implementation demonstrated in the BDI-class Kitaev chain featuring long-range hopping and pairing terms that host robust edge-localized Majorana modes. Gain insights into dissipative quantum engineering applications and the advancement of nonequilibrium topological superconductor research based on recent findings published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11242.