Inhomogeneous superconductors can host electronic excitations, known as Andreev bound
states (ABSs), below the superconducting energy gap. With the advent of topological …

Abstract Majorana fermions are spin-1/2 neutral particles that are their own antiparticles and
were initially predicted by Ettore Majorana in particle physics but their observation still …

In the space of less than one decade, the search for Majorana quasiparticles in condensed
matter has become one of the hottest topics in physics. The aim of this review is to provide a …

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

A classical battery converts chemical energy into a persistent voltage bias that can power
electronic circuits. Similarly, a phase battery is a quantum device that provides a persistent …

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 …

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 …

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external
magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of …

Superconducting circuits based on hybrid InAs Josephson Junctions (JJs) play a starring
role in the design of fast and ultra‐low power consumption solid‐state quantum electronics …

The emergence of zero-energy states in nontopological superconductors represents an
inevitable problem that obscures the proper identification of zero-energy Majorana bound …