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 …

Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires

G Wang, T Dvir, GP Mazur, CX Liu, N van Loo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins form Cooper
pairs. This includes both conventional s-wave superconductors such as aluminium, as well …

Physical mechanisms for zero-bias conductance peaks in Majorana nanowires

H Pan, S Das Sarma - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the need to understand and simulate the ubiquitous experimentally observed
zero-bias conductance peaks in superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures, we …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Tunable superconducting coupling of quantum dots via Andreev bound states in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires

CX Liu, G Wang, T Dvir, M Wimmer - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Semiconductor quantum dots have proven to be a useful platform for quantum simulation in
the solid state. However, implementing a superconducting coupling between quantum dots …

Plateau Regions for Zero-Bias Peaks within 5% of the Quantized Conductance Value

Z Wang, H Song, D Pan, Z Zhang, W Miao, R Li… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Probing an isolated Majorana zero mode is predicted to reveal a tunneling conductance
quantized at 2 e 2/h at zero temperature. Experimentally, a zero-bias peak (ZBP) is expected …

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 …

Recent progress on Majorana in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures—engineering and detection

Z Cao, S Chen, G Zhang, DE Liu - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2023 - Springer
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are exotic excitations (in condensed matter systems) of
fundamental scientific interest and hold great promise as the basis of fault-tolerant …

Gate controlled anomalous phase shift in Al/InAs Josephson junctions

W Mayer, MC Dartiailh, J Yuan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In a standard Josephson junction the current is zero when the phase difference between
superconducting leads is zero. This condition is protected by parity and time-reversal …

Three-terminal nonlocal conductance in Majorana nanowires: Distinguishing topological and trivial in realistic systems with disorder and inhomogeneous potential

H Pan, JD Sau, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We develop a theory for the three-terminal nonlocal conductance in Majorana nanowires as
existing in the superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures in the presence of …