Emerging Dirac and Majorana fermions for carbon nanotubes with   proximity-induced pairing and spiral magnetic field
  We study the low-energy bandstructure of armchair and small-bandgap semiconducting carbon nanotubes with proximity-induced superconducting pairing when a spiral magnetic field creates strong effective spin-orbit interactions from the Zeeman term and a periodic potential from the orbital part. We find that gapless Dirac fermions can be generated by variation of a single parameter. For a semiconducting tube with the field in the same plane, a non-degenerate zero mode at momentum k=0 can be induced, allowing for the generation of topologically protected Majorana fermion end states. 
Reinhold Egger and Karsten Flensberg
cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.supr-con