Quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional superconductors: a review on recent experimental progress

Z Wang, Y Liu, C Ji, J Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconductor-insulator/metal transition (SIT/SMT) as a paradigm of quantum phase
transition has been a research highlight over the last three decades. Benefit from recent …

Nontopological zero-bias peaks in full-shell nanowires induced by flux-tunable Andreev states

M Valentini, F Peñaranda, A Hofmann, M Brauns… - Science, 2021 - science.org
A semiconducting nanowire fully wrapped by a superconducting shell has been proposed
as a platform for obtaining Majorana modes at small magnetic fields. In this study, we …

Zero-bias peaks at zero magnetic field in ferromagnetic hybrid nanowires

S Vaitiekėnas, Y Liu, P Krogstrup, CM Marcus - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Hybrid quantum materials allow for quantum phases that otherwise do not exist in nature,.
For example, a one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana states bound to …

Majorana-like Coulomb spectroscopy in the absence of zero-bias peaks

M Valentini, M Borovkov, E Prada, S Martí-Sánchez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor devices hold great promise for realizing topological
quantum computing with Majorana zero modes,,,–. However, multiple claims of Majorana …

A perspective on semiconductor-based superconducting qubits

R Aguado - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Following the demonstration of semiconductor-based Josephson junctions, which are fully
tunable by electrical means, new routes have been opened for the study of hybrid …

Joule spectroscopy of hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanodevices

A Ibabe, M Gomez, GO Steffensen, T Kanne… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices offer highly tunable platforms, potentially
suitable for quantum technology applications, that have been intensively studied in the past …

Supercurrent reversal in ferromagnetic hybrid nanowire Josephson junctions

D Razmadze, RS Souto, L Galletti, A Maiani, Y Liu… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We report supercurrent transport measurements in hybrid Josephson junctions comprising
semiconducting InAs nanowires with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator EuS and …

Dynamical vortex transitions in a gate-tunable two-dimensional Josephson junction array

CGL Bøttcher, F Nichele, J Shabani, CJ Palmstrøm… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We explore vortex dynamics in a two-dimensional Josephson junction array of micron-size
superconducting islands fabricated from an epitaxial Al/InAs superconductor-semiconductor …

Supercurrent transport through -periodic full-shell Coulomb islands

D Razmadze, RS Souto, ECT O'Farrell, P Krogstrup… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We experimentally investigate supercurrent through Coulomb islands, where island and
leads are fabricated from semiconducting nanowires with fully surrounding superconducting …

Phenomenology of Majorana zero modes in full-shell hybrid nanowires

C Payá, SD Escribano, A Vezzosi, F Peñaranda… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Full-shell nanowires have been proposed as an alternative nanowire design in the search of
topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes (MZMs). They are hybrid …