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20142026
most citedBallistic superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires

229 citations · 1.5k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Frequency-resolved decoherence spectroscopy of a semiconductor charge qubit coupled to a high-impedance resonator

Ekaterina Al-Tavil, Wonjin Jang, David J. van Woerkom +10

Superconducting resonators coupled to semiconductor quantum dots provide a powerful platform to investigate light-matter interaction and decoherence mechanisms in solid-state quant…

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★ 4 cited

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-hall2022★ 24 cited

Microwave spectroscopy of interacting Andreev spins

J. J. Wesdorp, F. J. Matute-Caňadas, A. Vaartjes +13

Andreev bound states are fermionic states localized in weak links between superconductors which can be occupied with spinful quasiparticles. Microwave experiments using superconduc…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 216 cited

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-hall2021★ 49 cited

In-situ Tuning of the Electric Dipole Strength of a Double Dot Charge Qubit: Charge Noise Protection and Ultra Strong Coupling

P. Scarlino, J. H. Ungerer, D. J. van Woerkom +10

Semiconductor quantum dots, where electrons or holes are isolated via electrostatic potentials generated by surface gates, are promising building blocks for semiconductor-based qua…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 137 cited

Observation of the 4-periodic Josephson effect in indium arsenide nanowires

Dominique Laroche, Daniël Bouman, David J. van Woerkom +9

Quantum computation by non-Abelian Majorana zero modes (MZMs) offers an approach to achieve fault tolerance by encoding quantum information in the non-local charge parity states of…

quant-ph2017★ 71 cited

All-Microwave Control and Dispersive Readout of Gate-Defined Quantum Dot Qubits in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

P. Scarlino, D. J. van Woerkom, A. Stockklauser +8

Developing fast and accurate control and readout techniques is an important challenge in quantum information processing with semiconductor qubits. Here, we study the dynamics and t…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 183 cited

Direct microwave measurement of Andreev-bound-state dynamics in a proximitized semiconducting nanowire

M. Hays, G. de Lange, K. Serniak +6

The modern understanding of the Josephson effect in mesosopic devices derives from the physics of Andreev bound states, fermionic modes that are localized in a superconducting weak…

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 9 cited

Josephson radiation and shot noise of a semiconductor nanowire junction

David J. van Woerkom, Alex Proutski, Ruben J. J. van Gulik +6

We measured the Josephson radiation emitted by an InSb semiconductor nanowire junction utilizing photon assisted quasiparticle tunneling in an AC-coupled superconducting tunnel jun…

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-hall2016★ 132 cited

Microwave spectroscopy of spinful Andreev bound states in ballistic semiconductor Josephson junctions

David J. van Woerkom, Alex Proutski, Bernard van Heck +7

The superconducting proximity effect in semiconductor nanowires has recently enabled the study of new superconducting architectures, such as gate-tunable superconducting qubits and…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 98 cited

1 minute parity lifetime of a NbTiN Cooper-pair transistor

David J. van Woerkom, Attila Geresdi, Leo P. Kouwenhoven

The parity modulation of the ground state of a superconducting island is a direct consequence of the presence of the Cooper pair condensate preferring an even number of charge carr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 108 cited

Towards high mobility InSb nanowire devices

Önder Gül, David J. van Woerkom, Ilse van Weperen +4

We study the low-temperature electron mobility of InSb nanowires. We extract the mobility at 4.2 Kelvin by means of field effect transport measurements using a model consisting of…