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 …

Topological nanomaterials

P Liu, JR Williams, JJ Cha - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new frontier in condensed matter
physics: topological materials with an electronic band structure belonging to a different …

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 …

Majorana nanowires for topological quantum computation

P Marra - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

Estimating disorder and its adverse effects in semiconductor Majorana nanowires

S Ahn, H Pan, B Woods, TD Stanescu… - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
We use the available transport measurements in the literature to develop a dataset for the
likely amount of disorder in semiconductor (InAs and InSb) materials which are used in …

Zero-energy Andreev bound states from quantum dots in proximitized Rashba nanowires

C Reeg, O Dmytruk, D Chevallier, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We study an analytical model of a Rashba nanowire that is partially covered by and coupled
to a thin superconducting layer, where the uncovered region of the nanowire forms a …

Three-terminal nonlocal conductance in Majorana nanowires: Distinguishing topological and trivial in realistic systems with disorder and inhomogeneous potential

H Pan, JD Sau, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We develop a theory for the three-terminal nonlocal conductance in Majorana nanowires as
existing in the superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures in the presence of …

Quantized and unquantized zero-bias tunneling conductance peaks in Majorana nanowires: Conductance below and above

H Pan, CX Liu, M Wimmer, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Majorana zero modes can appear at the wire ends of a one-dimensional topological
superconductor and manifest themselves as a quantized zero-bias conductance peak in the …

Closing of the induced gap in a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire

D Puglia, EA Martinez, GC Ménard, A Pöschl, S Gronin… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We present conductance-matrix measurements in long, three-terminal hybrid
superconductor-semiconductor nanowires, and compare with theoretical predictions of a …

Progress in superconductor-semiconductor topological Josephson junctions

WF Schiela, P Yu, J Shabani - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles. They are
predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological …