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 …

Anomalous zero-bias conductance peak in a Nb–InSb nanowire–Nb hybrid device

MT Deng, CL Yu, GY Huang, M Larsson, P Caroff… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor InSb nanowires are expected to provide an excellent material platform for
the study of Majorana fermions in solid state systems. Here, we report on the realization of a …

Spin-resolved Andreev levels and parity crossings in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanostructures

EJH Lee, X Jiang, M Houzet, R Aguado… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The physics and operating principles of hybrid superconductor–semiconductor devices rest
ultimately on the magnetic properties of their elementary subgap excitations, usually called …

Singlet-doublet transitions of a quantum dot Josephson junction detected in a transmon circuit

A Bargerbos, M Pita-Vidal, R Žitko, J Ávila, LJ Splitthoff… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We realize a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device in which the
Josephson effect is controlled by a gate-defined quantum dot in an In As-Al nanowire …

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 …

Shiba states and zero-bias anomalies in the hybrid normal-superconductor Anderson model

R Žitko, JS Lim, R López, R Aguado - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Hybrid semiconductor-superconductor systems are interesting melting pots where various
fundamental effects in condensed-matter physics coexist. For example, when a quantum dot …

Tuning Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in a quantum dot

A Jellinggaard, K Grove-Rasmussen, MH Madsen… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We present transport spectroscopy of subgap states in a bottom gated InAs nanowire
coupled to a normal lead and a superconducting aluminium lead. The device shows clearly …

Strong nonlocal tuning of the current-phase relation of a quantum dot based Andreev molecule

M Kocsis, Z Scherübl, G Fülöp, P Makk, S Csonka - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recent realization of minimal Kitaev chains brought a breakthrough in Majorana research,
which made arrays of quantum dots coupled by superconductor spacers the most promising …

Andreev bound states probed in three-terminal quantum dots

J Gramich, A Baumgartner, C Schönenberger - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Andreev bound states (ABSs) are well-defined many-body quantum states that emerge from
the hybridization of individual quantum dot (QD) states with a superconductor and exhibit …

Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in phase-biased superconductor–quantum dot–superconductor junctions

G Kiršanskas, M Goldstein, K Flensberg, LI Glazman… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study the effects of a phase difference on Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states in a spinful
Coulomb-blockaded quantum dot contacted by a superconducting loop. In the limit where …