Electronic Transport and Quantum Phenomena in Nanowires

G Badawy, EPAM Bakkers - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanowires are natural one-dimensional channels and offer new opportunities for advanced
electronic quantum transport experiments. We review recent progress on the synthesis of …

Exponential protection of zero modes in Majorana islands

SM Albrecht, AP Higginbotham, M Madsen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems that have
been proposed as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers. They are expected to …

Zero-bias peaks and splitting in an Al–InAs nanowire topological superconductor as a signature of Majorana fermions

A Das, Y Ronen, Y Most, Y Oreg, M Heiblum… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Majorana fermions are the only fermionic particles that are expected to be their own
antiparticles. Although elementary particles of the Majorana type have not been identified …

Anomalous zero-bias conductance peak in a Nb–InSb nanowire–Nb hybrid device

MT Deng, CL Yu, GY Huang, M Larsson, P Caroff… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor InSb nanowires are expected to provide an excellent material platform for
the study of Majorana fermions in solid state systems. Here, we report on the realization of a …

Anomalous modulation of a zero-bias peak in a hybrid nanowire-superconductor device

ADK Finck, DJ Van Harlingen, PK Mohseni, K Jung… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We report on transport measurements of an InAs nanowire coupled to niobium nitride leads
at high magnetic fields. We observe a zero-bias anomaly (ZBA) in the differential …

Cooper pair splitter realized in a two-quantum-dot Y-junction

L Hofstetter, S Csonka, J Nygård, C Schönenberger - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Non-locality is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics that manifests itself as
correlations between spatially separated parts of a quantum system. A fundamental route for …

Parity lifetime of bound states in a proximitized semiconductor nanowire

AP Higginbotham, SM Albrecht, G Kiršanskas… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Quasiparticle excitations can compromise the performance of superconducting devices,
causing high-frequency dissipation, decoherence in Josephson qubits,,,,,, and braiding …

Giant, Level-Dependent g Factors in InSb Nanowire Quantum Dots

HA Nilsson, P Caroff, C Thelander, M Larsson… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We report on magnetotransport measurements on InSb nanowire quantum dots. The
measurements show that the quantum levels of the InSb quantum dots have giant g factors …

Spectroscopy of spin-split Andreev levels in a quantum dot with superconducting leads

A Bargerbos, M Pita-Vidal, R Žitko, LJ Splitthoff… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
We use a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device to perform spectroscopy of
a quantum dot Josephson junction tuned to be in a spin-1/2 ground state with an unpaired …

Small Charging Energies and g-Factor Anisotropy in PbTe Quantum Dots

SC Ten Kate, MF Ritter, A Fuhrer, J Jung… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
PbTe is a semiconductor with promising properties for topological quantum computing
applications. Here, we characterize electron quantum dots in PbTe nanowires selectively …