Nanowires are natural one-dimensional channels and offer new opportunities for advanced
electronic quantum transport experiments. We review recent progress on the synthesis of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor nanowires are promising candidates as quantum
information processing devices. The need for scalability and complex designs calls for the …

Planar Josephson junctions are predicted to host Majorana zero modes. The material
platforms in previous studies are two-dimensional electron gases (InAs, InSb, InAsSb, and …

Degeneracy and symmetry have a profound relation in quantum systems. Here, we report
gate-tunable subband degeneracy in PbTe nanowires with a nearly symmetric cross …

PbTe is a semiconductor with promising properties for topological quantum computing
applications. Here, we characterize electron quantum dots in PbTe nanowires selectively …

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 …

Epitaxial semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid nanowires are potential candidates
for implementing Majorana qubits. Recent experimental and theoretical works show that …