Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes

K Flensberg, F von Oppen, A Stern - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Among the major avenues that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-
based approach has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits that …

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 …

Majorana quasiparticles in condensed matter

R Aguado - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2017 - Springer
In the space of less than one decade, the search for Majorana quasiparticles in condensed
matter has become one of the hottest topics in physics. The aim of this review is to provide a …

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 …

Transport in two-dimensional topological materials: recent developments in experiment and theory

D Culcer, AC Keser, Y Li, G Tkachov - 2D Materials, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We review theoretical and experimental highlights in transport in two-dimensional
topological materials over the last five years. Topological materials comprise topological …

Josephson radiation from gapless Andreev bound states in HgTe-based topological junctions

RS Deacon, J Wiedenmann, E Bocquillon… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Frequency analysis of the rf emission of oscillating Josephson supercurrent is a powerful
passive way of probing properties of topological Josephson junctions. In particular …

Low-energy theory of transport in Majorana wire junctions

A Zazunov, R Egger, A Levy Yeyati - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We formulate and apply a low-energy transport theory for hybrid quantum devices
containing junctions of topological superconductor (TS) wires and conventional normal (N) …

Josephson junction dynamics in the presence of - and -periodic supercurrents

F Domínguez, O Kashuba, E Bocquillon… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We investigate theoretically the dynamics of a Josephson junction in the framework of the
resistively shunted junction model. We consider a junction that hosts two supercurrent …

Weak measurement protocols for Majorana bound state identification

J Manousakis, C Wille, A Altland, R Egger… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We propose a continuous weak measurement protocol testing the nonlocality of Majorana
bound states through current shot noise correlations. The experimental setup contains a …

Superconducting diode effect in quantum spin Hall insulator based Josephson junctions

B Scharf, D Kochan, A Matos-Abiague - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is a magnetoelectric phenomenon where an
external magnetic field imparts a nonzero center-of-mass momentum to Cooper pairs, either …