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 …

Topological quantum materials from the viewpoint of chemistry

N Kumar, SN Guin, K Manna, C Shekhar… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly
transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and …

Evidence for Majorana bound states in an iron-based superconductor

D Wang, L Kong, P Fan, H Chen, S Zhu, W Liu, L Cao… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The search for Majorana bound states (MBSs) has been fueled by the prospect of using their
non-Abelian statistics for robust quantum computation. Two-dimensional superconducting …

Evidence of topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions

A Fornieri, AM Whiticar, F Setiawan, E Portolés… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes—quasiparticle states localized at the boundaries of topological
superconductors—are expected to be ideal building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum …

Topological superconductivity in a phase-controlled Josephson junction

H Ren, F Pientka, S Hart, AT Pierce, M Kosowsky… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries,,,–.
These quasi-particle excitations obey non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and …

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 …

Robust and Clean Majorana Zero Mode in the Vortex Core of High-Temperature Superconductor

Q Liu, C Chen, T Zhang, R Peng, YJ Yan, CHP Wen… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The Majorana fermion, which is its own antiparticle and obeys non-Abelian statistics, plays a
critical role in topological quantum computing. It can be realized as a bound state at zero …

Ballistic Majorana nanowire devices

Ö Gül, H Zhang, JDS Bommer, MWA de Moor… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Majorana modes are zero-energy excitations of a topological superconductor that exhibit
non-Abelian statistics,–. Following proposals for their detection in a semiconductor nanowire …

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 …

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 …