BACKGROUND The past two decades have seen intense efforts aimed at building quantum
computing hardware with the potential to solve problems that are intractable on classical …

Nanowires are natural one-dimensional channels and offer new opportunities for advanced
electronic quantum transport experiments. We review recent progress on the synthesis of …

In recent years, the notion of'Quantum Materials' has emerged as a powerful unifying
concept across diverse fields of science and engineering, from condensed-matter and …

Disorder is the primary obstacle in the current Majorana nanowire experiments. Reducing
disorder or achieving ballistic transport is thus of paramount importance. In clean and …

Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor devices hold great promise for realizing topological
quantum computing with Majorana zero modes,,,–. However, multiple claims of Majorana …

Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor nanowires are promising candidates as quantum
information processing devices. The need for scalability and complex designs calls for the …

We report a probable observation of the dc Josephson effect in mesoscopic junctions of
three and four superconductors. The devices are fabricated in a top-down fashion from a …

PbTe is a semiconductor with promising properties for topological quantum computing
applications. Here, we characterize electron quantum dots in PbTe nanowires selectively …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been investigated for decades, but their application
into commercial products is still difficult to achieve, with triggering causes related to the …

Material challenges are the key issue in Majorana research, where surface disorder
constrains device performance. Here, we tackle this challenge by embedding PbTe …