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 …

Coherent manipulation of Andreev states in superconducting atomic contacts

C Janvier, L Tosi, L Bretheau, ÇÖ Girit, M Stern… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Coherent control of quantum states has been demonstrated in a variety of superconducting
devices. In all of these devices, the variables that are manipulated are collective …

Phase-engineering the Andreev band structure of a three-terminal Josephson junction

M Coraiola, DZ Haxell, D Sabonis, H Weisbrich… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In hybrid Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting terminals coupled to a
semiconducting region, Andreev bound states may form unconventional energy band …

Demonstration of the nonlocal Josephson effect in Andreev molecules

DZ Haxell, M Coraiola, M Hinderling, SC Ten Kate… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We perform switching current measurements of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) coupled by
a common superconducting electrode with independent control over the two …

Spin-orbit splitting of Andreev states revealed by microwave spectroscopy

L Tosi, C Metzger, MF Goffman, C Urbina, H Pothier… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We perform microwave spectroscopy of Andreev states in superconducting weak links
tailored in an InAs-Al (core-full shell) epitaxially grown nanowire. The spectra present …

SNS junctions in nanowires with spin-orbit coupling: Role of confinement and helicity on the subgap spectrum

J Cayao, E Prada, P San-Jose, R Aguado - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study normal transport and the subgap spectrum of superconductor-normal-
superconductor (SNS) junctions made of semiconducting nanowires with strong Rashba …

Weyl josephson circuits

V Fatemi, AR Akhmerov, L Bretheau - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We introduce Weyl Josephson circuits: small Josephson junction circuits that simulate Weyl
band structures. We first formulate a general approach to design circuits that are analogous …

Relating Andreev bound states and supercurrents in hybrid Josephson junctions

F Nichele, E Portolés, A Fornieri, AM Whiticar… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate concomitant measurement of phase-dependent critical current and
Andreev bound state spectrum in a highly transmissive InAs Josephson junction embedded …

Bolometric detection of Josephson radiation

B Karimi, GO Steffensen, AP Higginbotham… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
One of the most promising approaches towards large-scale quantum computation uses
devices based on many Josephson junctions. Yet, even today, open questions regarding the …

Tunnelling spectroscopy of Andreev states in graphene

L Bretheau, JIJ Wang, R Pisoni, K Watanabe… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
A normal conductor placed in good contact with a superconductor can inherit its remarkable
electronic properties,. This proximity effect microscopically originates from the formation in …