From Andreev to Majorana bound states in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanowires

E Prada, P San-Jose, MWA de Moor, A Geresdi… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Inhomogeneous superconductors can host electronic excitations, known as Andreev bound
states (ABSs), below the superconducting energy gap. With the advent of topological …

Retracted article: Quantized majorana conductance

H Zhang, CX Liu, S Gazibegovic, D Xu, JA Logan… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Majorana zero-modes—a type of localized quasiparticle—hold great promise for topological
quantum computing. Tunnelling spectroscopy in electrical transport is the primary tool for …

Andreev bound states versus Majorana bound states in quantum dot-nanowire-superconductor hybrid structures: Trivial versus topological zero-bias conductance …

CX Liu, JD Sau, TD Stanescu, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2017‏ - APS
Motivated by an important recent experiment [Deng, Science 354, 1557 (2016) SCIEAS
0036-8075 10.1126/science. aaf3961], we theoretically consider the interplay between …

Scaling of Majorana zero-bias conductance peaks

F Nichele, ACC Drachmann, AM Whiticar… - Physical review …, 2017‏ - APS
We report an experimental study of the scaling of zero-bias conductance peaks compatible
with Majorana zero modes as a function of magnetic field, tunnel coupling, and temperature …

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 …

Non-Majorana states yield nearly quantized conductance in proximatized nanowires

P Yu, J Chen, M Gomanko, G Badawy, E Bakkers… - Nature Physics, 2021‏ - nature.com
Semiconductor nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity are leading contenders
for manifesting Majorana fermions in condensed matter,,,–. However, unambiguous …

Ballistic Majorana nanowire devices

Ö Gül, H Zhang, JDS Bommer, MWA de Moor… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Majorana modes are zero-energy excitations of a topological superconductor that exhibit
non-Abelian statistics,–. Following proposals for their detection in a semiconductor nanowire …

Effects of gate-induced electric fields on semiconductor Majorana nanowires

AE Antipov, A Bargerbos, GW Winkler, B Bauer… - Physical Review X, 2018‏ - APS
We study the effect of gate-induced electric fields on the properties of semiconductor-
superconductor hybrid nanowires which represent a promising platform for realizing …

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 …