From Andreev to Majorana bound states in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanowires

E Prada, P San-Jose, MWA de Moor, A Geresdi… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Inhomogeneous superconductors can host electronic excitations, known as Andreev bound
states (ABSs), below the superconducting energy gap. With the advent of topological …

InAs-Al hybrid devices passing the topological gap protocol

M Aghaee, A Akkala, Z Alam, R Ali, A Alcaraz Ramirez… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We present measurements and simulations of semiconductor-superconductor
heterostructure devices that are consistent with the observation of topological …

Flux-induced topological superconductivity in full-shell nanowires

S Vaitiekėnas, GW Winkler, B Van Heck, T Karzig… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Majorana zero modes (MZMs) localized at the ends of one-dimensional
topological superconductors are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing …

Diamagnetic mechanism of critical current non-reciprocity in multilayered superconductors

A Sundaresh, JI Väyrynen, Y Lyanda-Geller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The suggestion that non-reciprocal critical current (NRC) may be an intrinsic property of non-
centrosymmetric superconductors has generated renewed theoretical and experimental …

Majorana nanowires for topological quantum computation

P Marra - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

Estimating disorder and its adverse effects in semiconductor Majorana nanowires

S Ahn, H Pan, B Woods, TD Stanescu… - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
We use the available transport measurements in the literature to develop a dataset for the
likely amount of disorder in semiconductor (InAs and InSb) materials which are used in …

Singlet-doublet transitions of a quantum dot Josephson junction detected in a transmon circuit

A Bargerbos, M Pita-Vidal, R Žitko, J Ávila, LJ Splitthoff… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We realize a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device in which the
Josephson effect is controlled by a gate-defined quantum dot in an In As-Al nanowire …

Recent progress on Majorana in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures—engineering and detection

Z Cao, S Chen, G Zhang, DE Liu - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2023 - Springer
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are exotic excitations (in condensed matter systems) of
fundamental scientific interest and hold great promise as the basis of fault-tolerant …

Electrostatic control of the proximity effect in the bulk of semiconductor-superconductor hybrids

N van Loo, GP Mazur, T Dvir, G Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is expected to generate an
induced gap in the semiconductor. The magnitude of this induced gap, together with the …

Signatures of a topological phase transition in a planar Josephson junction

A Banerjee, O Lesser, MA Rahman, HR Wang, MR Li… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
A growing body of work suggests that planar Josephson junctions fabricated using
superconducting hybrid materials provide a highly controllable route toward one …