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most citedSignatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices

4.2k citations · 5.1k across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Coupling a Ge nuclear spin to an electrostatically defined quantum dot

Paul Steinacker, Gauri Goenka, Rocky Yue Su +17

Single nuclear spins in silicon are a promising resource for quantum technologies due to their long coherence times and excellent control fidelities. Qubits and qudits have been en…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

Scalable Atomic Arrays for Spin-Based Quantum Computers in Silicon

Alexander M. Jakob, Simon G. Robson, Hannes R. Firgau +8

Semiconductor spin qubits combine excellent quantum performance with the prospect of manufacturing quantum devices using industry-standard metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) processes…

quant-ph2023★ 48 cited

Navigating the 16-dimensional Hilbert space of a high-spin donor qudit with electric and magnetic fields

Irene Fernández de Fuentes, Tim Botzem, Mark A. I. Johnson +11

Efficient scaling and flexible control are key aspects of useful quantum computing hardware. Spins in semiconductors combine quantum information processing with electrons, holes or…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

Phase transformation-induced superconducting aluminium-silicon alloy rings

B. C. Johnson, M. Stuiber, D. L. Creedon +8

The development of a materials platform that exhibits both superconducting and semiconducting properties is an important endeavour for a range of emerging quantum technologies. We…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

We cannot believe we overlooked these Majorana discoveries

Sergey Frolov, Vincent Mourik

In 2011-2012 we performed experiments on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices which yielded signatures of Majorana fermions based on zero-bias peaks in tunneling me…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 8 cited

Near-Surface Electrical Characterisation of Silicon Electronic Devices Using Focused keV Ions

Simon G. Robson, Paul Räcke, Alexander M. Jakob +8

The demonstration of universal quantum logic operations near the fault-tolerance threshold establishes ion-implanted near-surface donor atoms as a plausible platform for scalable q…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 42 cited

Deterministic Single Ion Implantation with 99.87% Confidence for Scalable Donor-Qubit Arrays in Silicon

Alexander M. Jakob, Simon G. Robson, Vivien Schmitt +9

The attributes of group-V-donor spins implanted in an isotopically purified Si crystal make them attractive qubits for large-scale quantum computer devices. Important featur…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 168 cited

Non-Majorana states yield nearly quantized conductance in superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices

P. Yu, J. Chen, M. Gomanko +5

Conductance at zero source-drain voltage bias in InSb nanowire/NbTiN superconductor devices exhibits peaks that are close to a quantized value of . The nearly quantized res…

quant-ph2020★ 22 cited

Measuring out-of-time-ordered correlation functions without reversing time evolution

Philip Daniel Blocher, Serwan Asaad, Vincent Mourik +3

Out-of-time-ordered correlation functions (OTOCs) play a crucial role in the study of thermalization, entanglement, and quantum chaos, as they quantify the scrambling of quantum in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 132 cited

Coherent electrical control of a single high-spin nucleus in silicon

Serwan Asaad, Vincent Mourik, Benjamin Joecker +12

Nuclear spins are highly coherent quantum objects. In large ensembles, their control and detection via magnetic resonance is widely exploited, e.g. in chemistry, medicine, material…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 229 cited

Ballistic superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires

Hao Zhang, Önder Gül, Sonia Conesa-Boj +19

Semiconductor nanowires have opened new research avenues in quantum transport owing to their confined geometry and electrostatic tunability. They have offered an exceptional testbe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 65 cited

Supercurrent interference in few-mode nanowire Josephson junctions

Kun Zuo, Vincent Mourik, Daniel B. Szombati +12

Junctions created by coupling two superconductors via a semiconductor nanowire in the presence of high magnetic fields are the basis for detection, fusion, and braiding of Majorana…

quant-ph2017★ 33 cited

Exploring quantum chaos with a single nuclear spin

Vincent Mourik, Serwan Asaad, Hannes Firgau +5

Most classical dynamical systems are chaotic. The trajectories of two identical systems prepared in infinitesimally different initial conditions diverge exponentially with time. Qu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 139 cited

Hard superconducting gap in InSb nanowires

Önder Gül, Hao Zhang, Folkert K. de Vries +14

Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to sho…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 4.2k cited

Signatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices

V. Mourik, K. Zuo, S. M. Frolov +3

Majorana fermions are particles identical to their own antiparticles. They have been theoretically predicted to exist in topological superconductors. We report electrical measureme…