Majorana zero modes in superconductor–semiconductor heterostructures

RM Lutchyn, EPAM Bakkers, LP Kouwenhoven… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the laboratory is a
major goal in condensed-matter physics. In this Review, we survey the current status of this …

Topological quantum matter with cold atoms

DW Zhang, YQ Zhu, YX Zhao, H Yan… - Advances in Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This is an introductory review of the physics of topological quantum matter with cold atoms.
Topological quantum phases, originally discovered and investigated in condensed matter …

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 …

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 …

Disorder-induced zero-bias peaks in Majorana nanowires

S Das Sarma, H Pan - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Focusing specifically on the recently retracted work by Zhang et al.[H. Zhang et al., Nature
(London) 556, 74 (2018) NATUAS 0028-0836 10.1038/nature26142; Retraction, Nature …

Exact mobility edges, -symmetry breaking, and skin effect in one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystals

Y Liu, Y Wang, XJ Liu, Q Zhou, S Chen - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We propose a general analytic method to study the localization transition in one-
dimensional quasicrystals with parity-time (PT) symmetry, described by complex …

Localization transition, spectrum structure, and winding numbers for one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystals

Y Liu, Q Zhou, S Chen - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
By analyzing the Lyapunov exponent (LE), we develop a rigorous, fundamental scheme for
the study of general non-Hermitian quasicrystals with both a complex phase factor and …

[BOK][B] Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Models

A Dutta - 2015 - books.google.com
The transverse field Ising and XY models (the simplest quantum spin models) provide the
organising principle for the rich variety of interconnected subjects which are covered in this …

Quantized zero-bias conductance plateau in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures without topological Majorana zero modes

C Moore, C Zeng, TD Stanescu, S Tewari - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recent observations of robust zero-bias quantized conductance plateaus of height 2 e 2/h in
quantum dot-semiconductor-superconductor nanowire heterostructures have been …

Two-terminal charge tunneling: Disentangling Majorana zero modes from partially separated Andreev bound states in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures

C Moore, TD Stanescu, S Tewari - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We show that a pair of overlap** Majorana bound states (MBSs) forming a partially
separated Andreev bound state (ps-ABS) represents a generic low-energy feature in spin …