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Superconducting weak-link junctions host electron--hole hybridized excitations called Andreev bound states. These have attracted significant interest for the role they play in the device microelectronic operation and for quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Benjamin Remez , Pouyan Ghaemi , Jay D. Sau , Mohammad Hafezi

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,…

We propose a minimalist architecture for achieving various crystalline-symmetry-protected Majorana modes in an array of coupled quantum dots. Our framework is motivated by the recent experimental demonstrations of two-site and three-site…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Bradraj Pandey , Gonzalo Alvarez , Elbio Dagotto , Rui-Xing Zhang

Andreev bound states are superpositions of electrons and holes in a metal that form by coherent reflection from a superconductor. When the length of the superconductor is comparable to the superconducting coherence length, Andreev bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Anders Enevold Dahl , Andrea Maiani , Max Geier , Javad Shabani , Karsten Flensberg

Zero energy states in one dimensional SSH Kitaev hybrid systems have emerged as promising candidates for topological qubits. In our work, we show that introducing a domain wall into a chain with anisotropic superconducting correlations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Griffith Rufo , Sabrina Rufo , Heron Caldas , Rosiane de Freitas

Josephson junctions formed in semiconductor nanowires host Andreev bound states and serve as a physical platform to realize Andreev qubits tuned by electrostatic gating. With the Andreev bound state being confined to the nanoscale weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 O. O. Shvetsov , A. Khola , V. Buccheri , I. P. C. Cools , N. Trnjanin , T. Kanne , J. Nygård , A. Geresdi

Poor man's Majorana Bound States (MBS) arise in minimal Kitaev chains when the parameters are fine-tuned to a sweet spot. We consider an interacting two-site Kitaev chain coupled to a single-mode cavity and show that the sweet spot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Álvaro Gómez-León , Marco Schirò , Olesia Dmytruk

We attain a renormalized and iterative expression of the Andreev level in a quantum-dot Josephson junction, which is bound to have significant implications due to several significant advantages. The renormalized form of the Andreev level…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-30 Xian-Peng Zhang

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

Topological quantum computing typically relies on topological Andreev bound states (ABSs) engineered in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices, where gate control offers key advantages. While strong Zeeman fields can induce such…

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

We present a numerical study of the emergence of Majorana and Andreev bound states in a system composed by two quantum dots, in which one of then is coupled to a conventional superconductor, SC1, and the other connects to a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Joelson F. Silva , E. Vernek

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of a minimal Kitaev chain in quantum dot systems, we present our theoretical findings on the dynamics and fusion of MZMs at or near the $``$sweet spot" $t_h = \Delta$ (where the fermionic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-31 Bradraj Pandey , Elbio Dagotto

Andreev bound states with opposite phase-inversion asymmetries are observed in local and non-local tunneling spectra at the two ends of a superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor planar Josephson junction in the presence of a…

We investigate a hybrid device consisting of two quantum dots placed between a BCS superconductor and a semiconductor with a strong spin-orbit interaction. Assuming charge tunneling between quantum dots through spin-flip processes, we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Bogdan R. Bułka , Tadeusz Domański , Karol I. Wysokiński

We study theoretically a junction of a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian superconductor (PTS) placed between two conventional superconductors. We show that due to non-Hermitian electron-electron interaction in the PTS region and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Viktoriia Kornich , Björn Trauzettel

The superconducting proximity effect in semiconductor nanowires has recently enabled the study of new superconducting architectures, such as gate-tunable superconducting qubits and multiterminal Josephson junctions. As opposed to their…

Topological Josephson junctions enable nonreciprocal transport involving Majorana fermions (MFs). Here we examine a topological Josephson junction with mixed $s$+$p$-wave pairing, where topological phase transition can be driven by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Shu-Tong Guan , Jin An

Quantum simulation is a way to study unexplored Hamiltonians by mapping them onto the assemblies of well-understood quantum systems such as ultracold atoms in optical lattices, trapped ions or superconducting circuits. Semiconductor…

In hybrid Josephson junctions with three or more superconducting terminals coupled to a semiconducting region, Andreev bound states may form unconventional energy band structures, or Andreev matter, which are engineered by controlling…