Band structure engineering and non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet topological insulators

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - Nature reviews physics, 2020 - nature.com
Non-equilibrium topological phenomena can be induced in quantum many-body systems
using time-periodic fields (for example, by laser or microwave illumination). This Review …

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 …

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 …

Retracted article: Quantized majorana conductance

H Zhang, CX Liu, S Gazibegovic, D Xu, JA Logan… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Majorana zero-modes—a type of localized quasiparticle—hold great promise for topological
quantum computing. Tunnelling spectroscopy in electrical transport is the primary tool for …

Topological superconductivity in hybrid devices

SM Frolov, MJ Manfra, JD Sau - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Topological superconductivity can emerge from the combination of conventional
superconductivity in a metal and strong spin–orbit coupling in a semiconductor when they …

Non-Majorana states yield nearly quantized conductance in proximatized nanowires

P Yu, J Chen, M Gomanko, G Badawy, E Bakkers… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Semiconductor nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity are leading contenders
for manifesting Majorana fermions in condensed matter,,,–. However, unambiguous …

Scaling of Majorana zero-bias conductance peaks

F Nichele, ACC Drachmann, AM Whiticar… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report an experimental study of the scaling of zero-bias conductance peaks compatible
with Majorana zero modes as a function of magnetic field, tunnel coupling, and temperature …

Andreev bound states versus Majorana bound states in quantum dot-nanowire-superconductor hybrid structures: Trivial versus topological zero-bias conductance …

CX Liu, JD Sau, TD Stanescu, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Motivated by an important recent experiment [Deng, Science 354, 1557 (2016) SCIEAS
0036-8075 10.1126/science. aaf3961], we theoretically consider the interplay between …

[HTML][HTML] Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation

SD Sarma, M Freedman, C Nayak - npj Quantum Information, 2015 - nature.com
We provide a current perspective on the rapidly developing field of Majorana zero modes
(MZMs) in solid-state systems. We emphasise the theoretical prediction, experimental …

New directions in the pursuit of Majorana fermions in solid state systems

J Alicea - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions—whose defining property is that they
are their own anti-particles—has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino …