Hybrid superconductor–quantum dot devices

S De Franceschi, L Kouwenhoven… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Advances in nanofabrication techniques have made it possible to make devices in which
superconducting electrodes are connected to non-superconducting nanostructures such as …

Josephson and Andreev transport through quantum dots

A Martín-Rodero, A Levy Yeyati - Advances in Physics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we review the state of the art on the transport properties of quantum dot
systems connected to superconducting and normal electrodes. The review is mainly focused …

Hard gap in epitaxial semiconductor–superconductor nanowires

W Chang, SM Albrecht, TS Jespersen… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Many present and future applications of superconductivity would benefit from electrostatic
control of carrier density and tunnelling rates, the hallmark of semiconductor devices. One …

Nontopological zero-bias peaks in full-shell nanowires induced by flux-tunable Andreev states

M Valentini, F Peñaranda, A Hofmann, M Brauns… - Science, 2021 - science.org
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 …

Spin-resolved Andreev levels and parity crossings in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanostructures

EJH Lee, X Jiang, M Houzet, R Aguado… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The physics and operating principles of hybrid superconductor–semiconductor devices rest
ultimately on the magnetic properties of their elementary subgap excitations, usually called …

Andreev bound states in supercurrent-carrying carbon nanotubes revealed

JD Pillet, CHL Quay, P Morfin, C Bena, AL Yeyati… - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are not intrinsically superconducting but they can carry a
supercurrent when connected to superconducting electrodes,,,. This supercurrent is mainly …

Supercurrent detection of topologically trivial zero-energy states in nanowire junctions

OA Awoga, J Cayao, AM Black-Schaffer - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We report the emergence of zero-energy states in the trivial phase of a short nanowire
junction with a strong spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, formed by strong coupling …

Tunneling spectroscopy of quasiparticle bound states in a spinful Josephson junction

W Chang, VE Manucharyan, TS Jespersen, J Nygård… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
The spectrum of a segment of InAs nanowire, confined between two superconducting leads,
was measured as function of gate voltage and superconducting phase difference using a …

Spectroscopy of spin-split Andreev levels in a quantum dot with superconducting leads

A Bargerbos, M Pita-Vidal, R Žitko, LJ Splitthoff… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
We use a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device to perform spectroscopy of
a quantum dot Josephson junction tuned to be in a spin-1/2 ground state with an unpaired …

Tunneling Spectroscopy of Andreev Energy Levels in a Quantum Dot Coupled<? format?> to a Superconductor

RS Deacon, Y Tanaka, A Oiwa, R Sakano, K Yoshida… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
The coupling of a quantum dot with a BCS-type superconducting reservoir results in an
intriguing system where low energy physics is governed by the interplay of two distinct …