Opportunities in topological insulator devices

O Breunig, Y Ando - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological insulators (TIs) hold promise as a platform for unique quantum phenomena.
However, realizing these phenomena experimentally requires sophisticated devices. In this …

Theory of Majorana zero modes in unconventional superconductors

Y Tanaka, S Tamura, J Cayao - Progress of Theoretical and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Majorana fermions are spin-1/2 neutral particles that are their own antiparticles and
were initially predicted by Ettore Majorana in particle physics but their observation still …

Parity-conserving Cooper-pair transport and ideal superconducting diode in planar germanium

M Valentini, O Sagi, L Baghumyan, T de Gijsel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Superconductor/semiconductor hybrid devices have attracted increasing interest in the past
years. Superconducting electronics aims to complement semiconductor technology, while …

Prominent Josephson tunneling between twisted single copper oxide planes of Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+y

H Wang, Y Zhu, Z Bai, Z Wang, S Hu, HY Xie… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Josephson tunneling in twisted cuprate junctions provides a litmus test for the pairing
symmetry, which is fundamental for understanding the microscopic mechanism of high …

Parity-protected superconducting diode effect in topological Josephson junctions

HF Legg, K Laubscher, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In bulk superconductors or Josephson junctions formed in materials with spin-orbit
interaction, the critical current can depend on the direction of current flow or of applied …

Superconducting diode effect sign change in epitaxial Al-InAs Josephson junctions

N Lotfizadeh, WF Schiela, B Pekerten, P Yu… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
There has recently been a surge of interest in studying the superconducting diode effect
(SDE) partly due to the possibility of uncovering the intrinsic properties of a material system …

Microwave-tunable diode effect in asymmetric SQUIDs with topological Josephson junctions

JJ Cuozzo, W Pan, J Shabani, E Rossi - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
In superconducting systems in which inversion and time-reversal symmetry are
simultaneously broken the critical current for positive and negative current bias can be …

Induced superconducting pairing in integer quantum Hall edge states

M Hatefipour, JJ Cuozzo, J Kanter, WM Strickland… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Indium arsenide (InAs) near surface quantum wells (QWs) are promising for the fabrication
of semiconductor–superconductor heterostructures given that they allow for a strong …

Progress in superconductor-semiconductor topological Josephson junctions

WF Schiela, P Yu, J Shabani - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles. They are
predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological …

Microwave signatures of topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions

B Pekerten, D Brandão, BH Elfeky, T Zhou, JE Han… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Planar Josephson junctions provide a platform to host topological superconductivity, which,
through manipulating Majorana bound states (MBS), could enable fault-tolerant quantum …