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 …

Theory of Majorana zero modes in unconventional superconductors

Y Tanaka, S Tamura, J Cayao - Progress of Theoretical and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Majorana fermions are spin-1/2 neutral particles that are their own antiparticles and
were initially predicted by Ettore Majorana in particle physics but their observation still …

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 …

Reproducing topological properties with quasi-Majorana states

A Vuik, B Nijholt, AR Akhmerov, M Wimmer - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
Andreev bound states in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices can have near-zero
energy in the topologically trivial regime as long as the confinement potential is sufficiently …

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 …

Quantized zero-bias conductance plateau in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures without topological Majorana zero modes

C Moore, C Zeng, TD Stanescu, S Tewari - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recent observations of robust zero-bias quantized conductance plateaus of height 2 e 2/h in
quantum dot-semiconductor-superconductor nanowire heterostructures have been …

Zero-energy Andreev bound states from quantum dots in proximitized Rashba nanowires

C Reeg, O Dmytruk, D Chevallier, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We study an analytical model of a Rashba nanowire that is partially covered by and coupled
to a thin superconducting layer, where the uncovered region of the nanowire forms a …

Three-terminal nonlocal conductance in Majorana nanowires: Distinguishing topological and trivial in realistic systems with disorder and inhomogeneous potential

H Pan, JD Sau, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We develop a theory for the three-terminal nonlocal conductance in Majorana nanowires as
existing in the superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures in the presence of …

Trivial andreev band mimicking topological bulk gap reopening in the nonlocal conductance of long rashba nanowires

R Hess, HF Legg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We consider a one-dimensional Rashba nanowire in which multiple Andreev bound states
in the bulk of the nanowire form an Andreev band. We show that, under certain …