Nanowires are natural one-dimensional channels and offer new opportunities for advanced
electronic quantum transport experiments. We review recent progress on the synthesis of …

Engines are systems and devices that convert one form of energy into another, typically into
a more useful form that can perform work. In the classical setup, physical, chemical, and …

Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian
excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such …

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 …

In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins form Cooper
pairs. This includes both conventional s-wave superconductors such as aluminium, as well …

A short superconducting segment can couple attached quantum dots via elastic cotunneling
(ECT) and crossed Andreev reflection (CAR). Such coupled quantum dots can host …

The formation of a topological superconducting phase in a quantum-dot–based Kitaev chain
requires nearest neighbor crossed Andreev reflection and elastic cotunneling. Here, we …

We propose and theoretically investigate an alternative way to create the poor man's
Majorana bound states (MBSs) introduced in Phys. Rev. B 86, 134528 (2012) …

Semiconductor quantum dots have proven to be a useful platform for quantum simulation in
the solid state. However, implementing a superconducting coupling between quantum dots …

The physics and operating principles of hybrid superconductor–semiconductor devices rest
ultimately on the magnetic properties of their elementary subgap excitations, usually called …