Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes

K Flensberg, F von Oppen, A Stern - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Among the major avenues that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-
based approach has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits that …

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 …

Majorana qubits and non-abelian physics in quantum dot–based minimal Kitaev chains

A Tsintzis, RS Souto, K Flensberg, J Danon, M Leijnse - PRX quantum, 2024 - APS
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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Reproducing topological properties with quasi-Majorana states

A Vuik, B Nijholt, AR Akhmerov, M Wimmer - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
Andreev bound states in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices can have near-zero
energy in the topologically trivial regime as long as the confinement potential is sufficiently …

Theory of Majorana zero modes in unconventional superconductors

Y Tanaka, S Tamura, J Cayao - Progress of Theoretical and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Majorana fermions are spin-1/2 neutral particles that are their own antiparticles and
were initially predicted by Ettore Majorana in particle physics but their observation still …

Zero-bias peaks at zero magnetic field in ferromagnetic hybrid nanowires

S Vaitiekėnas, Y Liu, P Krogstrup, CM Marcus - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Hybrid quantum materials allow for quantum phases that otherwise do not exist in nature,.
For example, a one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana states bound to …

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 …

Probing Majorana localization in minimal Kitaev chains through a quantum dot

RS Souto, A Tsintzis, M Leijnse, J Danon - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Artificial Kitaev chains, formed by quantum dots coupled via superconductors, have
emerged as a promising platform for realizing Majorana bound states. Even a minimal …