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We show that partially separated Andreev bound states (ps-ABSs), comprised of pairs of overlapping Majorana bound states (MBSs) emerging in quantum dot-semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures, produce robust zero bias conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 C. Moore , Chuanchang Zeng , T. D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

Quantized conductance plateaus, a celebrated hallmark of Majorana bound states (MBSs) predicted a decade ago, have recently been observed with small deviations in iron-based superconductors and hybrid nanowires. Here, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Zhan Cao , Gu Zhang , Hao Zhang , Ying-Xin Liang , Wan-Xiu He , Ke He , Dong E. Liu

N-type doping of GaAs nanowires has proven to be difficult because the amphoteric character of silicon impurities is enhanced by the nanowire growth mechanism and growth conditions. The controllable growth of n-type GaAs nanowires with…

In this paper we report the first measurements of carrier mobilities in an inorganic nanocrystal: conducting polymer composite. The composite material in question (lead sulphide nanocrystals in the conducting polymer MEH-PPV was made using…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrew Watt , Troy Eichman , Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop , Paul Meredith

We develop a practical machine learning approach to determine the disorder landscape of Majorana nanowires by using training of the conductance matrix and inverting the conductance data in order to obtain the disorder details in the system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Jacob R. Taylor , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

Atomic-scale charge transport properties are not only of significant fundamental interest but also highly relevant for numerous technical applications. However, experimental methods which are capable of detecting charge transport at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Markus Leisegang , Robert Schindhelm , Jens Kügel , Matthias Bode

A theoretical study of the magnetoelectronic properties of zigzag and armchair bilayer graphene nanoribbons (BGNs) is presented. Using the recursive Green's function method, we study the band structure of BGNs in uniform perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-13 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , I. V. Zozoulenko

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors are central to applications across quantum information science. Yet, their performance is limited by the effects of disorder and electrodynamic inhomogeneities that are not well understood.…

We report electron transport studies of a thin InAs-Al hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowire device using a four-terminal design. Compared to previous works, thinner InAs nanowire (diameter less than 40 nm) is expected to reach fewer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Huading Song , Zitong Zhang , Dong Pan , Donghao Liu , Zhaoyu Wang , Zhan Cao , Lei Liu , Lianjun Wen , Dunyuan Liao , Ran Zhuo , Dong E Liu , Runan Shang , Jianhua Zhao , Hao Zhang

SnTe materials are one of the most flexible material platforms for exploring the interplay of topology and different types of symmetry breaking. We study symmetry-protected topological states in SnTe nanowires in the presence of various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Nguyen Minh Nguyen , Wojciech Brzezicki , Timo Hyart

Experimental conductance histograms built from several thousand successive breakings of sodium nanowires exhibit peaks up to rather high conductance values (100 x 2e^2/h). In this paper, we present results from a disordered free-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Burki , C. A. Stafford

We present a comprehensive investigation into disorder-mediated charge transport in InP nanowires in the statistical doping regime. At zero gate voltage transport is well described by the space charge limited current model and…

Efficient doping of semiconductor nanowires remains a major challenge towards the commercialization of nanowire-based devices. In this work we investigate the growth regimes and electrical properties of MBE-grown p- and n-type gallium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Vladislav Sharov , Kristina Novikova , Alexey Mozharov , Vladimir Fedorov , Prokhor Alekseev , Ivan Mukhin

We investigate the quantum transport through a quantum dot coupled with a superconducting (SC) nanowire. By elaborating the differential conductance and current noise spectrum, we focus on the distinct characteristics of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Huajin Zhao , Junrong Wang , Hong Mao , Jinshuang Jin

We perform tunneling measurements on indium antimonide nanowire/superconductor hybrid devices fabricated for the studies of Majorana bound states. At finite magnetic field, resonances that strongly resemble Majorana bound states, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Jun Chen , Benjamin Woods , Peng Yu , Moira Hocevar , Diana Car , Sebastien Plissard , Erik Bakkers , Tudor Stanescu , Sergey Frolov

We investigate the transport of electrons in disordered and pristine graphene devices. Fano shot noise, a standard metric to assess the mechanism for electronic transport in mesoscopic devices, has been shown to produce almost the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Mario F. Borunda , H. Hennig , Eric J. Heller

We theoretically consider transport properties of a normal metal (N)- superconducting semiconductor nanowire (S)-normal metal (N) structure (NSN) in the context of the possible existence of Majorana bound states in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

Majorana zero modes (MZMs), prime candidates for topological quantum bits, are detected as zero bias conductance peaks (ZBPs) in tunneling spectroscopy measurements. Implementation of a narrow and high tunnel barrier in the next generation…

We consider the superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrid Majorana platform ("Majorana nanowire") in the presence of a deterministic spatially slowly varying inhomogeneous chemical potential and a random spatial quenched potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

We report electrical transport measurements of arrays of PbSe nanocrystals forming the channels of field effect transistors. We measure the current in these devices as a function of source-drain voltage, gate voltage and temperature.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 T. S. Mentzel , V. J. Porter , S. Geyer , K. MacLean , M. G. Bawendi , M. A. Kastner