During the last ten years, superconducting circuits have passed from being interesting
physical devices to becoming contenders for near-future useful and scalable quantum …

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

The possibility of engineering artificial Kitaev chains in arrays of quantum dots coupled via
narrow superconducting regions has emerged as an attractive way to overcome the disorder …

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 …

Two promising architectures for solid-state quantum information processing are based on
electron spins electrostatically confined in semiconductor quantum dots and the collective …

Nonequilibrium quasiparticle excitations degrade the performance of a variety of
superconducting circuits. Understanding the energy distribution of these quasiparticles will …

As quantum coherence times of superconducting circuits have increased from nanoseconds
to hundreds of microseconds, they are currently one of the leading platforms for quantum …

We realize a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device in which the
Josephson effect is controlled by a gate-defined quantum dot in an In As-Al nanowire …

In hybrid Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting terminals coupled to a
semiconducting region, Andreev bound states may form unconventional energy band …

The modern understanding of the Josephson effect in mesosopic devices derives from the
physics of Andreev bound states, fermionic modes that are localized in a superconducting …