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We present a hybrid semiconductor-based superconducting qubit device which remains coherent at magnetic fields up to 1 T. The qubit transition frequency exhibits periodic oscillations with magnetic field, consistent with interference…

We propose a system of coupled quantum dots in proximity to a superconductor and driven by separate ac potentials to realize and detect Floquet Majorana fermions. We show that the appearance of Floquet Majorana fermions can be finely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Yantao Li , Arijit Kundu , Fan Zhong , Babak Seradjeh

Qubits built out of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have long been theorized as a potential pathway toward fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Almost unavoidable in these processes is Majorana wavefunction overlap, known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Dan Crawford , Stephan Rachel

We present an experimental realization of the transmon qubit, an improved superconducting charge qubit derived from the Cooper pair box. We experimentally verify the predicted exponential suppression of sensitivity to 1/f charge noise [J.…

The Majorana tetron is a prototypical topological qubit stemming from the ground state degeneracy of a superconducting island hosting four Majorana modes. This degeneracy manifests as an effective non-local spin degree of freedom, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Maximilian Nitsch , Lorenzo Maffi , Virgil V. Baran , Rubén Seoane Souto , Jens Paaske , Martin Leijnse , Michele Burrello

We show that semiconductor nanowires coupled to an s-wave superconductor provide a playground to study effects of interactions between different topological superconducting phases supporting Majorana zero-energy modes. We consider quasi-one…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-12-30 Roman M. Lutchyn , Matthew P. A. Fisher

In superconductor-semiconductor hybrids, applying a magnetic field closes a trivial bulk gap and causes a topological phase transition (TPT), resulting in the emergence of Majorana zero modes at both ends of the wires. However, trivial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-06 Takeshi Mizushima , Yukio Tanaka , Jorge Cayao

Topological superfluid, new quantum matter that possesses gapless exotic excitations known as Majorana fermions, has attracted extensive attention recently. These excitations, which can encode topological qubits, could be crucial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-18 Liang-Liang Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

In the topological phase of p-wave superconductors, zero-energy Majorana quasi-particle excitations can be well-defined in the presence of local density-density interactions. Here we examine this phenomenon from the perspective of matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 G. Kells

This short review article provides a pedagogical introduction to the rapidly growing research field of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors. We first discuss in some details the simplest "toy model" in which Majoranas appear,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-09 Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

We construct a semiclassical theory for the transport of topological junctions starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian that comprehensively includes the interplay among the Majorana qubit, the Josephson phase, and the dissipation process.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-28 Zhi Wang , Jia-Jin Feng , Zhao Huang , Qian Niu

We propose a topological qubit in which braiding and readout are mediated by the $4\pi$ Majorana-Josephson effect. The braidonium device consists of three Majorana nanowires that come together to make a tri-junction; in order to control the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 John P. T. Stenger , Michael Hatridge , Sergey M. Frolov , David Pekker

We demonstrate how to exploit long-cell polytypes of silicon carbide to achieve strong coupling between transverse phonon polaritons and zone folded longitudinal optical phonons. The resulting quasiparticles possess hybrid longitudinal and…

The nonlocal nature of the fermionic mode spanned by a pair of Majorana bound states in a one-dimensional topological superconductor has inspired many proposals aiming at demonstrating this property in transport. In particular, transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Jascha Ulrich , Fabian Hassler

Transmon qubits are ubiquitous in the pursuit of quantum computing using superconducting circuits. However, they have some drawbacks that still need to be addressed. Most importantly, the scalability of transmons is limited by the large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 R. Zhao , S. Park , T. Zhao , M. Bal , C. R. H. McRae , J. Long , D. P. Pappas

Majorana fermions are long-sought exotic particles that are their own antiparticles. Here we propose to utilize superconducting circuits to construct two superconducting-qubit arrays where Majorana modes can occur. A so-called Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-23 J. Q. You , Z. D. Wang , Wenxian Zhang , Franco Nori

We investigate the mesoscopic resistor-capacitor circuit consisting of a quantum dot coupled to spatially separated Majorana fermion modes in a chiral topological superconductor. We find substantially enhanced relaxation resistance due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-08 Minchul Lee , Mahn-Soo Choi

Schemes for topological quantum computation with Majorana bound states rely heavily on the ability to measure products of Majorana operators projectively. Here, we employ Markovian quantum measurement theory, including the readout device,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jacob F. Steiner , Felix von Oppen

We investigate the inhomogeneous Rashba chain coupled to a superconducting substrate, hosting the Majorana quasiparticles near its edges. We discuss its subgap spectrum and study how robust are the zero-energy quasiparticles against the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 M. M. Maska , A. Gorczyca-Goraj , J. Tworzydlo , T. Domanski

We investigate the occurrence of Majorana modes in semiconductor quantum wires in close proximity with a superconductor and when both, Rashba interaction and magnetic field, are present. We consider long, but finite, multiband wires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Jong Soo Lim , Llorens Serra , Rosa Lopez , Ramon Aguado