Evidence of topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions

A Fornieri, AM Whiticar, F Setiawan, E Portolés… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes—quasiparticle states localized at the boundaries of topological
superconductors—are expected to be ideal building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum …

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 …

Recent progress on Majorana in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures—engineering and detection

Z Cao, S Chen, G Zhang, DE Liu - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2023 - Springer
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are exotic excitations (in condensed matter systems) of
fundamental scientific interest and hold great promise as the basis of fault-tolerant …

Electric field tunable superconductor-semiconductor coupling in Majorana nanowires

MWA De Moor, JDS Bommer, D Xu… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the effect of external electric fields on superconductor-semiconductor coupling by
measuring the electron transport in InSb semiconductor nanowires coupled to an epitaxially …

Protocol to identify a topological superconducting phase in a three-terminal device

DI Pikulin, B van Heck, T Karzig, EA Martinez… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We develop a protocol to determine the presence and extent of a topological phase with
Majorana zero modes in a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor device. The protocol is …

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 spectroscopy of a hybrid superconducting nanowire using side-coupled quantum dots

A Danilenko, A Pöschl, D Sabonis… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We investigate superconducting hybrid nanowires defined by patterned gates on a two-
dimensional heterostructure of InAs and Al, with lateral quantum dots operating as single …

Transport signatures of Majorana bound states in superconducting hybrid structures: A minireview

A Schuray, D Frombach, S Park, P Recher - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
In this minireview, we outline the recent experimental and theoretical progress in the
creation, characterization and manipulation of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in …

Weak measurement protocols for Majorana bound state identification

J Manousakis, C Wille, A Altland, R Egger… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We propose a continuous weak measurement protocol testing the nonlocality of Majorana
bound states through current shot noise correlations. The experimental setup contains a …

Coherent transport through a Majorana island in an Aharonov–Bohm interferometer

AM Whiticar, A Fornieri, ECT O'Farrell… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes are leading candidates for topological quantum computation due to
non-local qubit encoding and non-abelian exchange statistics. Spatially separated Majorana …