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Publications (10)

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

InAs-Al Hybrid Devices Passing the Topological Gap Protocol

Morteza Aghaee, Arun Akkala, Zulfi Alam +124

We present measurements and simulations of semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure devices that are consistent with the observation of topological superconductivity and Majora…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Stark effect spectroscopy of mono- and few-layer MoS

Julian Klein, Jakob Wierzbowski, Armin Regler +5

We demonstrate electrical control of the A-exciton interband transition in mono- and few-layer crystals embedded into photocapacitor devices via the DC Stark effect. Elec…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

20 Second Parity Lifetime in an InAs--Pb Tetron Device

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Mariusz Andrzejczuk +162

A central promise of topological quantum computing is that increasing the excitation gap improves device performance significantly. Here, we experimentally validate this principle…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Interferometric Single-Shot Parity Measurement in an InAs-Al Hybrid Device

Morteza Aghaee, Alejandro Alcaraz Ramirez, Zulfi Alam +159

The fusion of non-Abelian anyons or topological defects is a fundamental operation in measurement-only topological quantum computation. In topological superconductors, this operati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Response to recent comments on Phys. Rev. B 107, 245423 (2023) and Subsection S4.3 of the Supp. Info. for Nature 638, 651-655 (2025)

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Mariusz Andrzejczuk +127

The topological gap protocol (TGP) is a statistical test designed to identify a topological phase with high confidence and without human bias. It is used to determine a promising p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Ultrathin catalyst-free InAs nanowires on silicon with distinct 1D sub-band transport properties

Fabio del Giudice, Jonathan Becker, Claudio de Rose +6

Ultrathin InAs nanowires (NW) with one-dimensional (1D) sub-band structure are promising materials for advanced quantum-electronic devices, where dimensions in the sub-30 nm diamet…

cs.RO2023

Model- and Acceleration-based Pursuit Controller for High-Performance Autonomous Racing

Jonathan Becker, Nadine Imholz, Luca Schwarzenbach +3

Autonomous racing is a research field gaining large popularity, as it pushes autonomous driving algorithms to their limits and serves as a catalyst for general autonomous driving.…

quant-ph2025

Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays

David Aasen, Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam +179

We describe a concrete device roadmap towards a fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on noise-resilient, topologically protected Majorana-based qubits. Our roadmap e…

cs.RO2024

ForzaETH Race Stack -- Scaled Autonomous Head-to-Head Racing on Fully Commercial off-the-Shelf Hardware

Nicolas Baumann, Edoardo Ghignone, Jonas Kühne +11

Autonomous racing in robotics combines high-speed dynamics with the necessity for reliability and real-time decision-making. While such racing pushes software and hardware to their…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Distinct Lifetimes for and Loop Measurements in a Majorana Tetron Device

Morteza Aghaee, Zulfi Alam, Rikke Andersen +164

We present a hardware realization and measurements of a tetron qubit device in a superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure. The device architecture contains two parallel superco…