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 …

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

Realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the laboratory is a
major goal in condensed-matter physics. In this Review, we survey the current status of this …

Majorana zero-modes—a type of localized quasiparticle—hold great promise for topological
quantum computing. Tunnelling spectroscopy in electrical transport is the primary tool for …

Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries,,,–.
These quasi-particle excitations obey non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and …

Motivated by the need to understand and simulate the ubiquitous experimentally observed
zero-bias conductance peaks in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures, we …

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 …

Semiconductor nanowires are ideal for realizing various low-dimensional quantum devices.
In particular, topological phases of matter hosting non-Abelian quasiparticles (such as …

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are spatially localized, zero-energy fractional quasiparticles
with non-Abelian braiding statistics that hold promise for topological quantum computing …