Ubiquitous non-Majorana zero-bias conductance peaks in nanowire devices

J Chen, BD Woods, P Yu, M Hocevar, D Car… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We perform tunneling measurements on indium antimonide nanowire-superconductor
hybrid devices fabricated for the studies of Majorana bound states. At finite magnetic field …

Spin-orbit splitting of Andreev states revealed by microwave spectroscopy

L Tosi, C Metzger, MF Goffman, C Urbina, H Pothier… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We perform microwave spectroscopy of Andreev states in superconducting weak links
tailored in an InAs-Al (core-full shell) epitaxially grown nanowire. The spectra present …

Supercurrent detection of topologically trivial zero-energy states in nanowire junctions

OA Awoga, J Cayao, AM Black-Schaffer - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We report the emergence of zero-energy states in the trivial phase of a short nanowire
junction with a strong spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, formed by strong coupling …

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 …

Majorana splitting from critical currents in Josephson junctions

J Cayao, P San-Jose, AM Black-Schaffer, R Aguado… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
A semiconducting nanowire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling and coupled to a
superconductor can be tuned by an external Zeeman field into a topological phase with …

Parity-preserving and magnetic field–resilient superconductivity in InSb nanowires with Sn shells

M Pendharkar, B Zhang, H Wu, A Zarassi, P Zhang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Improving materials used to make qubits is crucial to further progress in quantum information
processing. Of particular interest are semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures that …

Josephson transistor from the superconducting diode effect in domain wall and skyrmion magnetic racetracks

R Hess, HF Legg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In superconductors, the combination of broken time-reversal and broken inversion
symmetries can result in a critical current being dependent on the direction of current flow …

Josephson diode based on conventional superconductors and a chiral quantum dot

Q Cheng, QF Sun - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose theoretically a Josephson diode consisting of the conventional superconductors
with the plain s-wave pairing and a chiral quantum dot. When an external magnetic field is …

Progress in superconductor-semiconductor topological Josephson junctions

WF Schiela, P Yu, J Shabani - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles. They are
predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological …

Gate-tunable field-compatible fluxonium

M Pita-Vidal, A Bargerbos, CK Yang… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Hybrid superconducting circuits, which integrate nonsuperconducting elements into a circuit
quantum electrodynamics (cQED) architecture, expand the possible applications of cQED …