Electronic Transport and Quantum Phenomena in Nanowires

G Badawy, EPAM Bakkers - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanowires are natural one-dimensional channels and offer new opportunities for advanced
electronic quantum transport experiments. We review recent progress on the synthesis of …

Lattice-mismatch-free construction of III-V/chalcogenide core-shell heterostructure nanowires

F Liu, X Zhuang, M Wang, D Qi, S Dong, SP Yip… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Growing high-quality core-shell heterostructure nanowires is still challenging due to the
lattice mismatch issue at the radial interface. Herein, a versatile strategy is exploited for the …

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 …

Noble metal nanoparticles decorated metal oxide semiconducting nanowire arrays interwoven into 3D mesoporous superstructures for low-temperature gas sensing

Y Ren, W Xie, Y Li, J Ma, J Li, Y Liu, Y Zou… - ACS central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mesoporous materials have been extensively studied for various applications due to their
high specific surface areas and well-interconnected uniform nanopores. Great attention has …

Complete miscibility of immiscible elements at the nanometre scale

PC Chen, M Gao, CA McCandler, C Song, J Jin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the mixing behaviour of elements in a multielement material is important to
control its structure and property. When the size of a multielement material is decreased to …

Majorana-like Coulomb spectroscopy in the absence of zero-bias peaks

M Valentini, M Borovkov, E Prada, S Martí-Sánchez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor devices hold great promise for realizing topological
quantum computing with Majorana zero modes,,,–. However, multiple claims of Majorana …

Epitaxial growth of highly symmetrical branched noble metal-semiconductor heterostructures with efficient plasmon-induced hot-electron transfer

L Zhai, ST Gebre, B Chen, D Xu, J Chen, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Epitaxial growth is one of the most commonly used strategies to precisely tailor
heterostructures with well-defined compositions, morphologies, crystal phases, and …

Small Charging Energies and g-Factor Anisotropy in PbTe Quantum Dots

SC Ten Kate, MF Ritter, A Fuhrer, J Jung… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
PbTe is a semiconductor with promising properties for topological quantum computing
applications. Here, we characterize electron quantum dots in PbTe nanowires selectively …

Measurements of phase dynamics in planar Josephson junctions and SQUIDs

DZ Haxell, E Cheah, F Křížek, R Schott, MF Ritter… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We experimentally investigate the stochastic phase dynamics of planar Josephson junctions
(JJs) and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) defined in epitaxial …

Numerical study of PbTe-Pb hybrid nanowires for engineering Majorana zero modes

Z Cao, DE Liu, WX He, X Liu, K He, H Zhang - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Epitaxial semiconductor-superconductor (SM-SC) hybrid nanowires are potential candidates
for implementing Majorana qubits. Recent experimental and theoretical works show that …