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 …

Next steps of quantum transport in Majorana nanowire devices

H Zhang, DE Liu, M Wimmer… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange
statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum …

InAs-Al hybrid devices passing the topological gap protocol

M Aghaee, A Akkala, Z Alam, R Ali, A Alcaraz Ramirez… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We present measurements and simulations of semiconductor-superconductor
heterostructure devices that are consistent with the observation of topological …

Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires

G Wang, T Dvir, GP Mazur, CX Liu, N van Loo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins form Cooper
pairs. This includes both conventional s-wave superconductors such as aluminium, as well …

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 …

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 …

Tunable superconducting coupling of quantum dots via Andreev bound states in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires

CX Liu, G Wang, T Dvir, M Wimmer - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
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 …

Estimating disorder and its adverse effects in semiconductor Majorana nanowires

S Ahn, H Pan, B Woods, TD Stanescu… - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
We use the available transport measurements in the literature to develop a dataset for the
likely amount of disorder in semiconductor (InAs and InSb) materials which are used in …

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 …

Effects of gate-induced electric fields on semiconductor Majorana nanowires

AE Antipov, A Bargerbos, GW Winkler, B Bauer… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We study the effect of gate-induced electric fields on the properties of semiconductor-
superconductor hybrid nanowires which represent a promising platform for realizing …