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20172026
most citedInAs-Al Hybrid Devices Passing the Topological Gap Protocol

216 citations · 384 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

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-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…

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…

quant-ph2025★ 5 cited

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…

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★ 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…

q-bio.NC2020★ 52 cited

A superconducting nanowire spiking element for neural networks

Emily Toomey, Ken Segall, Matteo Castellani +3

As the limits of traditional von Neumann computing come into view, the brain's ability to communicate vast quantities of information using low-power spikes has become an increasing…

cs.ET2019★ 12 cited

Design and Characterization of Superconducting Nanowire-Based Processors for Acceleration of Deep Neural Network Training

Murat Onen, Brenden A. Butters, Emily Toomey +2

Training of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a computationally intensive task and requires massive volumes of data transfer. Performing these operations with the conventional von Neu…

physics.app-ph2019

Cryogenic Memory Architecture Integrating Spin Hall Effect based Magnetic Memory and Superconductive Cryotron Devices

Minh-Hai Nguyen, Guilhem J. Ribeill, Martin Gustafsson +19

One of the most challenging obstacles to realizing exascale computing is minimizing the energy consumption of L2 cache, main memory, and interconnects to that memory. For promising…

q-bio.NC2019

A Power Efficient Artificial Neuron Using Superconducting Nanowires

Emily Toomey, Ken Segall, Karl K. Berggren

With the rising societal demand for more information-processing capacity with lower power consumption, alternative architectures inspired by the parallelism and robustness of the h…

physics.app-ph2018★ 16 cited

Bridging the gap between nanowires and Josephson junctions: a superconducting device based on controlled fluxon transfer across nanowires

Emily Toomey, Murat Onen, Marco Colangelo +3

The basis for superconducting electronics can broadly be divided between two technologies: the Josephson junction and the superconducting nanowire. While the Josephson junction (JJ…

physics.app-ph2017★ 54 cited

A compact superconducting nanowire memory element operated by nanowire cryotrons

Qing-Yuan Zhao, Emily A. Toomey, Brenden A. Butters +4

A superconducting loop stores persistent current without any ohmic loss, making it an ideal platform for energy efficient memories. Conventional superconducting memories use an arc…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 25 cited

Frequency pulling and mixing of relaxation oscillations in superconducting nanowires

Emily Toomey, Qing-Yuan Zhao, Adam N. McCaughan +1

Many superconducting technologies such as rapid single flux quantum computing (RSFQ) and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) rely on the modulation of nonlinear d…