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In semiconducting-superconducting hybrid devices, Andreev bound states (ABSs) can mediate the coupling between quantum dots (QDs), allowing for the realisation of artificial Kitaev chains. In order to engineer Majorana bound states (MBSs)…

A chain of quantum dots (QDs) in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems can form an artificial Kitaev chain hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). These zero-energy states are expected to be localised on the edges of the chain, at the…

Few-site implementations of the Kitaev chain offer a minimal platform to study the emergence and stability of Majorana bound states. Here, we realize two- and three-site chains in semiconducting quantum dots coupled via superconductors, and…

Artificial Kitaev chains engineered from semiconducting quantum dots coupled by superconducting segments offer a promising route to realize and control Majorana bound states for topological quantum computation. We study a dimerized Kitaev…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Rafael Pineda Medina , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

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 nonabelian physics. Here, we show that it is possible to avoid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 William Samuelson , Viktor Svensson , Martin Leijnse

Minimal Kitaev chains composed of two semiconducting quantum dots coupled via a grounded superconductor have emerged as a promising platform to realize and study Majorana bound states (MBSs). We propose a hybrid qubit based on a Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 D. Michel Pino , Rubén Seoane Souto , Ramón Aguado

Artificial Kitaev chains based on arrays of quantum dots are promising platforms for realizing Majorana Bound States (MBSs). In a two-site Kitaev chain, it is possible to find these non-Abelian zero-energy excitations at certain points in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Rodrigo A. Dourado , J. Carlos Egues , Poliana H. Penteado

Minimal Kitaev chains, composed of two quantum dots (QDs) connected via a superconductor, have emerged as an attractive platform to realize Majorana bound states (MBSs). These excitations exist when the ground state is degenerate. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Rodrigo A. Dourado , Martin Leijnse , Rubén Seoane Souto

Connecting double quantum dots via a semiconductor-superconductor hybrid segment offers a platform for creating a two-site Kitaev chain that hosts a pair of "poor man's Majoranas" at a finely tuned sweet spot. However, the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Chun-Xiao Liu , A. Mert Bozkurt , Francesco Zatelli , Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf , Tom Dvir , Michael Wimmer

Quantum dot-superconductor arrays have emerged as a new and promising material platform for realizing topological Kitaev chains. So far, experiments have implemented a two-site chain with limited protection. Here we propose an…

Kitaev chains realized in quantum dots coupled via superconducting segments provide a controllable platform for engineering Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In these systems, subgap states in the hybrid region mediate the effective coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 M. Alvarado , R. Seoane Souto , María José Calderón , Ramón Aguado

Artificial Kitaev chains, formed by quantum dots coupled via superconductors, have emerged as a promising platform for realizing Majorana bound states. Even a minimal Kitaev chain (a quantum dot--superconductor--quantum dot setup) can host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Rubén Seoane Souto , Athanasios Tsintzis , Martin Leijnse , Jeroen Danon

We show how a recently proposed solid state Majorana platform comprising a planar Josephson junction proximitized to a 2D electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field can be viewed as an effectively one dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Dillon T. Liu , Javad Shabani , Aditi Mitra

We propose to implement a Kitaev chain based on an array of alternating normal and superconductor hybrid quantum dots embedded in semiconductors. In particular, the orbitals in the dot and the Andreev bound states in the hybrid are now on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Sebastian Miles , David van Driel , Michael Wimmer , Chun-Xiao Liu

The recent realization of a two-site Kitaev chain featuring "poor man's Majorana" states demonstrates a path forward in the field of topological superconductivity. Harnessing the potential of these states for quantum information processing,…

The possibility to engineer artificial Kitaev chains in arrays of quantum dots coupled via narrow superconducting regions has emerged as an attractive way to overcome the disorder issues that complicate the realization and detection of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Athanasios Tsintzis , Rubén Seoane Souto , Karsten Flensberg , Jeroen Danon , Martin Leijnse

Kitaev chain is a theoretical model of a one-dimensional topological superconductor with Majorana zero modes at the two ends of the chain. With the goal of emulating this model, we build a chain of three quantum dots in a semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Hao Wu , Po Zhang , John P. T. Stenger , Zhaoen Su , Jun Chen , Ghada Badawy , Sasa Gazibegovic , Erik P. A. M. Bakkers , Sergey M. Frolov

Quantum dot-superconductor hybrids have been established as a suitable platform for realizing Kitaev chains hosting Majorana bound states. Implementing these structures in a qubit architecture is expected to result in coherence times that…

We introduce a tunable synthetic-dimension platform for realizing Kitaev-chain physics with high degree of control over Majorana zero modes. It is based on a generic Landau-quantized two dimensional electron system coupled to the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Adel Ali , Alexey Belyanin

Majorana modes can be engineered in arrays where quantum dots (QDs) are coupled via grounded superconductors, effectively realizing an artificial Kitaev chain. Minimal Kitaev chains, composed by two QDs, can host fully-localized Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 R. Seoane Souto , V. V. Baran , M. Nitsch , L. Maffi , J. Paaske , M. Leijnse , M. Burrello
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