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 …

Plateau Regions for Zero-Bias Peaks within 5% of the Quantized Conductance Value

Z Wang, H Song, D Pan, Z Zhang, W Miao, R Li… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Probing an isolated Majorana zero mode is predicted to reveal a tunneling conductance
quantized at 2 e 2/h at zero temperature. Experimentally, a zero-bias peak (ZBP) is expected …

Conductance quantization in PbTe nanowires

W Song, Y Wang, W Miao, Z Yu, Y Gao, R Li, S Yang… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
PbTe nanowires coupled to a superconductor have recently been proposed as a potential
Majorana platform. The hallmark of the one-dimensional nature of ballistic nanowires is their …

Ballistic PbTe nanowire devices

Y Wang, F Chen, W Song, Z Geng, Z Yu, L Yang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Disorder is the primary obstacle in the current Majorana nanowire experiments. Reducing
disorder or achieving ballistic transport is thus of paramount importance. In clean and …

Reducing disorder in PbTe nanowires for Majorana research

W Song, Z Yu, Y Wang, Y Gao, Z Li, S Yang… - Nano Letters, 2025 - ACS Publications
Material challenges are the key issue in Majorana research, where surface disorder
constrains device performance. Here, we tackle this challenge by embedding PbTe …

Selective area epitaxy of PbTe-Pb hybrid nanowires on a lattice-matched substrate

Y Jiang, S Yang, L Li, W Song, W Miao, B Tong… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Topological quantum computing is based on the braiding of Majorana zero modes encoding
topological qubits. A promising candidate platform for Majorana zero modes is …

Numerical study of PbTe-Pb hybrid nanowires for engineering Majorana zero modes

Z Cao, DE Liu, WX He, X Liu, K He, H Zhang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Epitaxial semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid nanowires are potential candidates
for implementing Majorana qubits. Recent experimental and theoretical works show that …

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 …

Hard superconducting gap in PbTe nanowires

Y Gao, W Song, S Yang, Z Yu, R Li, W Miao… - Chinese Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Semiconductor nanowires coupled to a superconductor provide a powerful testbed for
quantum device physics such as Majorana zero modes and gate-tunable hybrid qubits. The …

SQUID oscillations in PbTe nanowire networks

Y Gao, W Song, Z Yu, S Yang, Y Wang, R Li, F Chen… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Network structures by semiconductor nanowires hold great promise for advanced quantum
devices, especially for applications in topological quantum computing. In this paper, we …