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Topological superconductivity supports exotic Majorana bound states (MBS) which are chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. With their non-Abelian exchange statistics and fractionalization of a single electron stored nonlocally as a…

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High-quality free-standing InAs nanosheets are emerging layered semiconductor materials with potentials in designing planar Josephson junction devices for novel physics studies due to their unique properties including strong spin-orbit…

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Graphene-based Josephson junctions played an important role in various quantum devices from their inception. Magnetic tunnel junctions or vertical devices were also made out of graphene by exposing the graphene layer to localised pattern of…

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Epitaxially grown, high quality semiconductor InSb nanowires are emerging material systems for the development of high performance nanoelectronics and quantum information processing and communication devices, and for the studies of new…

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While the application of out-of-plane magnetic fields was, so far, believed to be detrimental for the formation of Majorana phases in artificially engineered hybrid superconducting-semiconducting junctions, several recent theoretical…

Superconductor-topological insulator-superconductor Josephson junctions have been fabricated in order to study the width dependence of the critical current, normal state resistance and flux periodicity of the critical current modulation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 C. G. Molenaar , D. P. Leusink , X. L. Wang , A. Brinkman

We consider a two-dimensional monolayer MoS2-based Josephson junction which is composed by an intermediate semiconductor flake and the semi-infinite topological and non-topological superconductor leads and study its quantum transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Hamidreza Simchi

Hybrid superconductor/semiconductor devices constitute a powerful platform where intriguing topological properties can be investigated. Here we present fabrication methods and analysis of Josephson junctions formed by a high-mobility InAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Stefano Guiducci , Matteo Carrega , Giorgio Biasiol , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram , Stefan Heun

We study the low-energy physics of planar Josephson junction structures realized in a quasi-two dimensional semiconductor system proximity-coupled to narrow superconducting films. Using both a recursive Green's function approach and an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-27 Purna P. Paudel , Javad Shabani , Tudor D. Stanescu

Josephson radiation is a powerful method to probe Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors. Recently, Josephson radiation with half the Josephson frequency has been experimentally observed in a HgTe-based junction, possibly from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-30 Jia-Jin Feng , Zhao Huang , Zhi Wang , Qian Niu

We present a novel semiconductor-superconductor hybrid material based on a molecular beam epitaxially grown InAsSb surface quantum well with an in-situ deposited Nb top layer. Relative to conventional Al-InAs based systems, the InAsSb…

We theoretically investigate the crystalline anisotropy of topological phase transitions in phase-controlled planar Josephson junctions (JJs) subject to spin-orbit coupling and in-plane magnetic fields. It is shown how topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-04 Joseph D. Pakizer , Benedikt Scharf , Alex Matos-Abiague

We study phase-controlled planar Josephson junctions comprising a two-dimensional electron gas with strong spin-orbit coupling and d-wave superconductors, which have an advantage of high critical temperature. We show that a region between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-08 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Mohamed Elekhtiar , Alexey A. Kovalev

A semiconducting nanowire proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor can be tuned into a topological state by an applied magnetic field. This quantum phase transition is marked by the emergence of Majorana zero modes at the ends of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Chaitanya Murthy , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Pavel D. Kurilovich , Bernard van Heck , Leonid I. Glazman , Chetan Nayak

Demonstration of non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS) is crucial for the realization of fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Two-dimensional platforms such as planar Josephson junctions require an in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

We present our new fabrication Process for Superconductor Electronics (PSE2) that integrates two (2) layers of Josephson junctions in a fully planarized multilayer process on 200-mm wafers. The two junction layers can be, e.g., conventional…

Topological superconductors are appealing building blocks for robust and reliable quantum information processing. Most platforms for engineering topological superconductivity rely on a combination of superconductors, materials with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ignacio Sardinero , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

A planar Josephson junction is a versatile platform to realize topological superconductivity over a large parameter space and host Majorana bound states. With a change in Zeeman field, this system undergoes a transition from trivial to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Barış Pekerten , David Brandão , Bailey Bussiere , David Monroe , Tong Zhou , Jong E. Han , Javad Shabani , Alex Matos-Abiague , Igor Žutić

Intrinsic Rashba spin-orbital coupling (SOC) can exist in centrosymmetric materials with local inversion symmetry breaking. Here we show that such a SOC can induce topological superconductivity together with an in-plane Zeeman field in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-05 Jiong Mei , Kun Jiang , Shengshan Qin , Jiangping Hu

A time-reversal invariant topological superconductivity is suggested to be realized in a quasi-one dimensional structure on a plane, which is fabricated by filling the superconducting materials into the periodic channel of dielectric…

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