This review elaborates pedagogically on the fundamental concept, basic theory, expected
properties, and materials realizations of topological superconductors. The relation between …

The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions—whose defining property is that they
are their own anti-particles—has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino …

Majorana fermion is a hypothetical particle that is its own antiparticle. We report transport
measurements that suggest the existence of one-dimensional chiral Majorana fermion …

We introduce a scheme for preparation, manipulation, and read out of Majorana zero modes
in semiconducting wires with mesoscopic superconducting islands. Our approach …

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

Majorana fermions are the only fermionic particles that are expected to be their own
antiparticles. Although elementary particles of the Majorana type have not been identified …

Majorana fermions (particles that are their own antiparticle) may or may not exist in nature as
elementary building blocks, but in condensed matter they can be constructed out of electron …

We present designs for scalable quantum computers composed of qubits encoded in
aggregates of four or more Majorana zero modes, realized at the ends of topological …

Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases,
characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces …

We propose an easy-to-build easy-to-detect scheme for realizing Majorana fermions at the
ends of a chain of magnetic atoms on the surface of a superconductor. Model calculations …