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 …

The germanium quantum information route

G Scappucci, C Kloeffel, FA Zwanenburg… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
In the effort to develop disruptive quantum technologies, germanium is emerging as a
versatile material to realize devices capable of encoding, processing and transmitting …

End states and subgap structure in proximity-coupled chains of magnetic adatoms

M Ruby, F Pientka, Y Peng, F Von Oppen, BW Heinrich… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
A recent experiment [Nadj-Perge et al., Science 346, 602 (2014)] provides evidence for
Majorana zero modes in iron (Fe) chains on the superconducting Pb (110) surface. Here, we …

Coherent control of single electrons: a review of current progress

C Bäuerle, DC Glattli, T Meunier, F Portier… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this report we review the present state of the art of the control of propagating quantum
states at the single-electron level and its potential application to quantum information …

Electronic structures and unusually robust bandgap in an ultrahigh-mobility layered oxide semiconductor, Bi2O2Se

C Chen, M Wang, J Wu, H Fu, H Yang, Z Tian, T Tu… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Semiconductors are essential materials that affect our everyday life in the modern world.
Two-dimensional semiconductors with high mobility and moderate bandgap are particularly …

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 …

Quantum transport in carbon nanotubes

EA Laird, F Kuemmeth, GA Steele… - Reviews of Modern …, 2015 - APS
Carbon nanotubes are a versatile material in which many aspects of condensed matter
physics come together. Recent discoveries have uncovered new phenomena that …

Josephson ϕ0-junction in nanowire quantum dots

DB Szombati, S Nadj-Perge, D Car, SR Plissard… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two
superconducting leads by a thin barrier. This current is driven by a superconducting phase …

Phonon-mediated superconductivity in graphene by lithium deposition

G Profeta, M Calandra, F Mauri - Nature physics, 2012 - nature.com
Graphene is the physical realization of many fundamental concepts and phenomena in solid-
state physics. However, in the list of graphene's many remarkable properties …

Entanglement of two qubits mediated by one-dimensional plasmonic waveguides

A Gonzalez-Tudela, D Martin-Cano, E Moreno… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We investigate qubit-qubit entanglement mediated by plasmons supported by one-
dimensional waveguides. We explore both the situation of spontaneous formation of …