Advances in nanofabrication techniques have made it possible to make devices in which
superconducting electrodes are connected to non-superconducting nanostructures such as …

In this article, we review the state of the art on the transport properties of quantum dot
systems connected to superconducting and normal electrodes. The review is mainly focused …

Kitaev chains in quantum dot-superconductor arrays are a promising platform for the
realization of topological superconductivity. As recently demonstrated, even a two-site chain …

Many present and future applications of superconductivity would benefit from electrostatic
control of carrier density and tunnelling rates, the hallmark of semiconductor devices. One …

A semiconducting nanowire fully wrapped by a superconducting shell has been proposed
as a platform for obtaining Majorana modes at small magnetic fields. In this study, we …

The physics and operating principles of hybrid superconductor–semiconductor devices rest
ultimately on the magnetic properties of their elementary subgap excitations, usually called …

We studied the low-energy states of spin-1/2 quantum dots defined in InAs/InP nanowires
and coupled to aluminum superconducting leads. By varying the superconducting gap Δ …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are not intrinsically superconducting but they can carry a
supercurrent when connected to superconducting electrodes,,,. This supercurrent is mainly …

The formation of a topological superconducting phase in a quantum-dot–based Kitaev chain
requires nearest neighbor crossed Andreev reflection and elastic cotunneling. Here, we …

The possibility to engineer a Kitaev chain in quantum dots coupled via superconductors has
recently emerged as a promising path toward topological superconductivity and possibly …