Majorana zero modes in superconductor–semiconductor heterostructures

RM Lutchyn, EPAM Bakkers, LP Kouwenhoven… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Supercurrent rectification and magnetochiral effects in symmetric Josephson junctions

C Baumgartner, L Fuchs, A Costa, S Reinhardt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transport is non-reciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current
depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion …

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 …

Flux-induced topological superconductivity in full-shell nanowires

S Vaitiekėnas, GW Winkler, B Van Heck, T Karzig… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Majorana zero modes (MZMs) localized at the ends of one-dimensional
topological superconductors are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing …

Superconducting diode effect due to magnetochiral anisotropy in topological insulators and Rashba nanowires

HF Legg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The critical current of a superconductor can depend on the direction of current flow due to
magnetochiral anisotropy when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken, an …

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 …

Next steps of quantum transport in Majorana nanowire devices

H Zhang, DE Liu, M Wimmer… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange
statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum …

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 …

Estimating disorder and its adverse effects in semiconductor Majorana nanowires

S Ahn, H Pan, B Woods, TD Stanescu… - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
We use the available transport measurements in the literature to develop a dataset for the
likely amount of disorder in semiconductor (InAs and InSb) materials which are used in …