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Recently, topological superconductors based on Josephson junctions in two-dimensional electron gases with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling have been proposed as attractive alternatives to wire-based setups. Here, we elucidate how…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-14 Benedikt Scharf , Falko Pientka , Hechen Ren , Amir Yacoby , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We investigate transport properties through a crossbar-shaped structure formed by a quantum dot (QD) coupled to two normal leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs). Each TSC hosts Majorana bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana

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…

Hybrid superconductor-semiconducting nanowire devices provide an ideal platform to investigating novel intragap bound states, such as the Andreev bound states (ABSs), Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states, and the Majorana bound states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 S. Li , N. Kang , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

We study Andreev bound states (ABS) and resulting charge transport of Rashba superconductor (RSC) where two-dimensional semiconductor (2DSM) heterostructures is sandwiched by spin-singlet s-wave superconductor and ferromagnet insulator. ABS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-28 Ai Yamakage , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

We demonstrate that the mode number of Andreev bound states in bilayer graphene Josephson junctions can be modulated by in situ control of the superconducting coherence length. By exploiting the quadratic band dispersion of bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Geon-Hyoung Park , Wonjun Lee , Sein Park , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil Young Cho , Gil-Ho Lee

We study the energy levels and transport properties of an extended Kitaev chain with a phase gradient. It is demonstrated that the hopping phase difference can effectively induce the generation of Majorana bound states, which are located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xuan Zhang , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

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

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 experimentally demonstrate that Majorana-like bound states (MLBSs) can occur in quasi-one-dimensional metamaterials, analogous to Majorana zero modes (MZM) in the Kitaev chain. In a mechanical spinner ladder system, we observe a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-01 Kai Qian , David J. Apigo , Karmela Padavić , Keun Hyuk Ahn , Smitha Vishveshwara , Camelia Prodan

By coupling a semiconductor-based planar Josephson junction to a superconducting resonator, we investigate the Andreev bound states in the junction using dispersive readout techniques. Using electrostatic gating to create a narrow…

We study one-dimensional topological SN and SNS long junctions obtained by placing a topological insulating nanowire in the proximity of either one or two SC finite-size leads. Using the Majorana Polarization order parameter (MP) introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 D. Chevallier , D. Sticlet , P. Simon , C. Bena

We study the transport properties of an interferometer composed by a quantum dot (QD) coupled with two normal leads and two one-dimensional topological superconductor nanowires (TNWs) hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) at their ends. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , P. A. Orellana , S. E. Ulloa

Multiterminal Josephson junctions offer a powerful playground for exploring exotic superconducting and topological phenomena beyond the reach of conventional two-terminal devices. In this work, we present the direct spectroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Le Yi , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Nitin Samarth , Régis Mélin , Morteza Kayyalha

Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles which are their own antiparticles. They are predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological superconductor. No intrinsic topological superconductor is known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 William F. Schiela , Peng Yu , Javad Shabani

Quantum dot based platforms offer a promising route towards realizing the Kitaev chain Hamiltonian hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). Poor man's MBSs arise in a two-site Kitaev chain when the parameters of the system are fine-tuned to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Francesco Buonemani , Alvaro Gómez-León , Marco Schirò , Olesia Dmytruk

Non-Abelian quasiparticles have been predicted to exist in a variety of condensed matter systems. Their defining property is that an adiabatic braid between two of them results in a nontrivial change of the quantum state of the system. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Jian Li , Titus Neupert , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

We study a double quantum dot connected via a common superconducting lead and show that this system can be tuned to host one Majorana bound state (MBS) on each dot. We call them "poor man's Majorana bound states" since they are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

We propose using Andreev bound states (ABS) as spectroscopic probes to characterize Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in quantum-dot based minimal Kitaev chains. Specifically, we show that tunneling conductance measurements with a superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Miguel Alvarado , Alfredo Levy Yetati , Ramón Aguado , Rubén Seoane Souto