1/f noise: Implications for solid-state quantum information

E Paladino, YM Galperin, G Falci, BL Altshuler - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
The efficiency of the future devices for quantum information processing is limited mostly by
the finite decoherence rates of the individual qubits and quantum gates. Recently …

Shot noise in mesoscopic conductors

YM Blanter, M Büttiker - Physics reports, 2000 - Elsevier
Theoretical and experimental work concerned with dynamic fluctuations has developed into
a very active and fascinating subfield of mesoscopic physics. We present a review of this …

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 …

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 …

Single-electron current sources: Toward a refined definition of the ampere

JP Pekola, OP Saira, VF Maisi, A Kemppinen… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
The control of electrons at the level of the elementary charge e was demonstrated
experimentally already in the 1980s. Ever since, the production of an electrical current ef, or …

Andreev tunneling, Coulomb blockade, and resonant transport of nonlocal spin-entangled electrons

P Recher, EV Sukhorukov, D Loss - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We propose and analyze a spin-entangler for electrons based on an s-wave superconductor
coupled to two quantum dots, each of which is coupled to normal Fermi leads. We show that …

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 …

Quantum transport in semiconductor-superconductor microjunctions

CWJ Beenakker - Physical Review B, 1992 - APS
A formula is derived that relates the conductance of a normal-metal–superconductor (NS)
junction to the single-electron transmission eigenvalues. The formula is applied to a …

Majorana-like Coulomb spectroscopy in the absence of zero-bias peaks

M Valentini, M Borovkov, E Prada, S Martí-Sánchez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor devices hold great promise for realizing topological
quantum computing with Majorana zero modes,,,–. However, multiple claims of Majorana …

[LIVRE][B] Computational single-electronics

C Wasshuber - 2012 - books.google.com
Single-electronics is a fascinating technology which reveals new physical effects of charge
transport. It has many benefits and great figure of merits but also several open challenges …