Inhomogeneous superconductors can host electronic excitations, known as Andreev bound
states (ABSs), below the superconducting energy gap. With the advent of topological …

A semiconducting nanowire fully wrapped by a superconducting shell has been proposed
as a platform for obtaining Majorana modes at small magnetic fields. In this study, we …

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor devices hold great promise for realizing topological
quantum computing with Majorana zero modes,,,–. However, multiple claims of Majorana …

Following the demonstration of semiconductor-based Josephson junctions, which are fully
tunable by electrical means, new routes have been opened for the study of hybrid …

Hybrid structures of semiconducting (SM) nanowires, epitaxially grown superconductors
(SC), and ferromagnetic-insulator (FI) layers have been explored experimentally and …

Full-shell nanowires have been proposed as an alternative nanowire design in the search of
topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes (MZMs). They are hybrid …

Full-shell nanowires are hybrid nanostructures consisting of a semiconducting core
encapsulated in an epitaxial superconducting shell. When subject to an external magnetic …

Majorana bound states (MBSs) located at the ends of a hybrid superconductor-
semiconductor nanowire are only true zero modes if their characteristic localization length is …

Little–Parks oscillations of a hollow superconducting cylinder are of interest for flux-driven
topological superconductivity in single Rashba nanowires. The oscillations are typically …