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Artificial Kitaev chains have emerged as a promising platform for realizing topological quantum computing. Once the chains are formed and the Majorana zero modes are braided/fused, reading out the parity of the chains is essential for…

We demonstrate reliable machine-learned tuning of quantum-dot-based artificial Kitaev chains to Majorana sweet spots, using the covariance matrix adaptation algorithm. We show that a loss function based on local tunnelling-spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jacob Benestad , Athanasios Tsintzis , Rubén Seoane Souto , Martin Leijnse , Evert van Nieuwenburg , Jeroen Danon

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 quantum dots through Andreev bound states in a semiconductor-superconductor hybrid provides a platform to create a Kitaev chain. Interestingly, in a double quantum dot, a pair of poor man's Majorana zero modes can emerge when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Juan Daniel Torres Luna , A. Mert Bozkurt , Michael Wimmer , Chun-Xiao Liu

Contemporary quantum devices are reaching new limits in size and complexity, allowing for the experimental exploration of emergent quantum modes. However, this increased complexity introduces significant challenges in device tuning and…

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

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 suggest a way to overcome the obstacles that disorder and high density of states pose to the creation of unpaired Majorana fermions in one-dimensional systems. This is achieved by splitting the system into a chain of quantum dots, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Ion C. Fulga , Arbel Haim , Anton R. Akhmerov , Yuval Oreg

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 can be used to engineer Majorana bound states (MBSs) in superconductor-semiconductor hybrids. In this work, we realize a two-site Kitaev chain in a two-dimensional electrongas by coupling two quantum dots through a…

Poor man's Majoranas (PMMs) hold the promise to engineer Majorana bound states in a highly tunable setup consisting of a chain of quantum dots that are connected via superconductors. Due to recent progress in controlling the amplitudes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Melina Luethi , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

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

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…

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 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 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

An array of quantum dots coupled via superconductivity provides a new platform for creating Kitaev chains with Majorana zero modes, offering a promising avenue toward topological quantum computing. In this work, we theoretically study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Chun-Xiao Liu

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…

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

Recently, exciting progress has been made in using the superconducting nanowires coupled to gate-defined quantum dots (QDs) to mimic the Kiteav chain and realize the Majorana-bound states via a poor man's route. The essential ingredient is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Zhi-Hai Liu , Chuanchang Zeng , H. Q. Xu
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