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 …

Electronic transport and quantum phenomena in nanowires

G Badawy, EPAM Bakkers - Chemical reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanowires are natural one-dimensional channels and offer new opportunities for advanced
electronic quantum transport experiments. We review recent progress on the synthesis of …

InAs-Al hybrid devices passing the topological gap protocol

M Aghaee, A Akkala, Z Alam, R Ali, A Alcaraz Ramirez… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We present measurements and simulations of semiconductor-superconductor
heterostructure devices that are consistent with the observation of topological …

Exponential protection of zero modes in Majorana islands

SM Albrecht, AP Higginbotham, M Madsen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems that have
been proposed as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers. They are expected to …

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 …

Disorder-induced zero-bias peaks in Majorana nanowires

S Das Sarma, H Pan - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Focusing specifically on the recently retracted work by Zhang et al.[H. Zhang et al., Nature
(London) 556, 74 (2018) NATUAS 0028-0836 10.1038/nature26142; Retraction, Nature …

[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 …

Two-dimensional epitaxial superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures: A platform for topological superconducting networks

J Shabani, M Kjærgaard, HJ Suominen, Y Kim… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
A key challenge in fabrication of superconductor (S)-semiconductor (Sm) hybrid devices is
forming highly transparent contacts between the active electrons in the semiconductor and …

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 …

Effects of gate-induced electric fields on semiconductor Majorana nanowires

AE Antipov, A Bargerbos, GW Winkler, B Bauer… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We study the effect of gate-induced electric fields on the properties of semiconductor-
superconductor hybrid nanowires which represent a promising platform for realizing …