Perspective on Majorana bound-states in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires

L Kouwenhoven - Modern Physics Letters B, 2025 - World Scientific
A personal perspective is given on a decade of research on Majorana bound states (MBS) in
hybrid devices of semiconducting nanowires covered with a superconductor. Predicted …

Hard superconducting gap in germanium

A Tosato, V Levajac, JY Wang, CJ Boor… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The co-integration of spin, superconducting, and topological systems is emerging as an
exciting pathway for scalable and high-fidelity quantum information technology. High …

Gate-tunable Josephson diode

GP Mazur, N van Loo, D van Driel, JY Wang… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Superconducting diodes are recently-discovered quantum analogues of classical diodes.
The superconducting diode effect relies on the breaking of both time-reversal and inversion …

Signatures of Majorana protection in a three-site Kitaev chain

A Bordin, CX Liu, T Dvir, F Zatelli, SLD ten Haaf… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are non-Abelian excitations predicted to emerge at the edges
of topological superconductors. One proposal for realizing a topological superconductor in …

Adversarial Hamiltonian learning of quantum dots in a minimal Kitaev chain

R Koch, D Van Driel, A Bordin, JL Lado, E Greplova - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Determining Hamiltonian parameters from noisy experimental measurements is a key task
for the control of experimental quantum systems. An interesting experimental platform where …

Superconducting tunnel junctions with layered superconductors

X Bi, G Chen, Z Li, H Yuan - Quantum Frontiers, 2024 - Springer
The superconducting tunneling effect in heterostructures, describing the process where
single electrons or Cooper pairs tunnel through the barrier, can always play a significant role …

Progress in superconductor-semiconductor topological Josephson junctions

WF Schiela, P Yu, J Shabani - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles. They are
predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological …

Spin-filtered measurements of Andreev bound states in semiconductor-superconductor nanowire devices

D Van Driel, G Wang, A Bordin, N van Loo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Semiconductor nanowires coupled to superconductors can host Andreev bound states with
distinct spin and parity, including a spin-zero state with an even number of electrons and a …

Interfacially Enhanced Superconductivity in Fe(Te,Se)/Bi4Te3 Heterostructures

AH Chen, Q Lu, E Hershkovitz, ML Crespillo… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Realizing topological superconductivity by integrating high‐transition‐temperature (TC)
superconductors with topological insulators can open new paths for quantum computing …

Hybridization induced triplet superconductivity with

E Silva, RCB Ribeiro, H Caldas, MA Continentino - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The Kitaev superconducting chain is a model of spinless fermions with tripletlike
superconductivity. It has raised interest since for some values of its parameters it presents a …