Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes

K Flensberg, F von Oppen, A Stern - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Among the major avenues that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-
based approach has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits that …

Majorana zero modes in superconductor–semiconductor heterostructures

RM Lutchyn, EPAM Bakkers, LP Kouwenhoven… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the laboratory is a
major goal in condensed-matter physics. In this Review, we survey the current status of this …

Majorana qubits and non-abelian physics in quantum dot–based minimal Kitaev chains

A Tsintzis, RS Souto, K Flensberg, J Danon, M Leijnse - PRX quantum, 2024 - APS
The possibility of engineering artificial Kitaev chains in arrays of quantum dots coupled via
narrow superconducting regions has emerged as an attractive way to overcome the disorder …

Majorana quasiparticles in condensed matter

R Aguado - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2017 - Springer
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 …

Scaling of Majorana zero-bias conductance peaks

F Nichele, ACC Drachmann, AM Whiticar… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report an experimental study of the scaling of zero-bias conductance peaks compatible
with Majorana zero modes as a function of magnetic field, tunnel coupling, and temperature …

RETRACTED: Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator–superconductor structure

QL He, L Pan, AL Stern, EC Burks, X Che, G Yin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Majorana fermion is a hypothetical particle that is its own antiparticle. We report transport
measurements that suggest the existence of one-dimensional chiral Majorana fermion …

Physical mechanisms for zero-bias conductance peaks in Majorana nanowires

H Pan, S Das Sarma - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the need to understand and simulate the ubiquitous experimentally observed
zero-bias conductance peaks in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures, we …

Disorder-induced zero-bias peaks in Majorana nanowires

S Das Sarma, H Pan - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Focusing specifically on the recently retracted work by Zhang et al.[H. Zhang et al., Nature
(London) 556, 74 (2018) NATUAS 0028-0836 10.1038/nature26142; Retraction, Nature …

Colloquium: Majorana fermions in nuclear, particle, and solid-state physics

SR Elliott, M Franz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Ettore Majorana (1906–1938) disappeared while traveling by ship from Palermo to Naples
in 1938. His fate has never been fully resolved and several articles have been written that …