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Cross-Platform Autonomous Control of Minimal Kitaev Chains
David van Driel, Rouven Koch, Vincent P. M. Sietses +21
Contemporary quantum devices are reaching new limits in size and complexity, allowing for the experimental exploration of emergent quantum modes. However, this increased complexity…
Signatures of Majorana protection in a three-site Kitaev chain
Alberto Bordin, Chun-Xiao Liu, Tom Dvir +14
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are non-Abelian excitations predicted to emerge at the edges of topological superconductors. One proposal for realizing a topological superconductor in o…
Robust poor man's Majorana zero modes using Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states
Francesco Zatelli, David van Driel, Di Xu +14
The recent realization of a two-site Kitaev chain featuring "poor man's Majorana" states demonstrates a path forward in the field of topological superconductivity. Harnessing the p…
Charge sensing the parity of an Andreev molecule
David van Driel, Bart Roovers, Francesco Zatelli +10
The proximity effect of superconductivity on confined states in semiconductors gives rise to various bound states such as Andreev bound states (ABSs), Andreev molecules and Majoran…
Subgap spectroscopy along hybrid nanowires by nm-thick tunnel barriers
Vukan Levajac, Ji-Yin Wang, Grzegorz P. Mazur +8
Tunneling spectroscopy is widely used to examine the subgap spectra in semiconductor-superconductor nanostructures when searching for Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Typically, semicon…
Spin-filtered measurements of Andreev bound states
David van Driel, Guanzhong Wang, Alberto Bordin +9
A semiconductor nanowire brought in proximity to a superconductor can form discrete, particle-hole symmetric states, known as Andreev bound states (ABSs). An ABS can be found in it…
Controlled crossed Andreev reflection and elastic co-tunneling mediated by Andreev bound states
Alberto Bordin, Guanzhong Wang, Chun-Xiao Liu +12
A short superconducting segment can couple attached quantum dots via elastic co-tunneling (ECT) and crossed Andreev reflection (CAR). Such coupled quantum dots can host Majorana bo…
The gate-tunable Josephson diode
G. P. Mazur, N. van Loo, D. van Driel +5
Superconducting diodes are a recently-discovered quantum analogueue of classical diodes. The superconducting diode effect relies on the breaking of both time-reversal and inversion…
Impact of junction length on supercurrent resilience against magnetic field in InSb-Al nanowire Josephson junctions
Vukan Levajac, Grzegorz P. Mazur, Nick van Loo +7
Semiconducting nanowire Josephson junctions represent an attractive platform to investigate the anomalous Josephson effect and detect topological superconductivity by studying Jose…
Electrostatic control of the proximity effect in the bulk of semiconductor-superconductor hybrids
N. van Loo, G. P. Mazur, T. Dvir +11
The proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is expected to generate an induced gap in the semiconductor. The magnitude of this induced gap, together with the sem…
Realization of a minimal Kitaev chain in coupled quantum dots
Tom Dvir, Guanzhong Wang, Nick van Loo +14
Majorana bound states constitute one of the simplest examples of emergent non-Abelian excitations in condensed matter physics. A toy model proposed by Kitaev shows that such states…
Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires
Guanzhong Wang, Tom Dvir, Grzegorz P. Mazur +9
In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins are paired up to form Cooper pairs. This includes both conventional -wave superconductors such as alum…
Variable and orbital-dependent spin-orbit field orientations in a InSb double quantum dot characterized via dispersive gate sensing
Lin Han, Michael Chan, Damaz de Jong +7
Utilizing dispersive gate sensing (DGS), we investigate the spin-orbit field () orientation in a many-electron double quantum dot (DQD) defined in an InSb nanowire…
Parametric exploration of zero-energy modes in three-terminal InSb-Al nanowire devices
Ji-Yin Wang, Nick van Loo, Grzegorz P. Mazur +10
We systematically study three-terminal InSb-Al nanowire devices by using radio-frequency reflectometry. Tunneling spectroscopy measurements on both ends of the hybrid nanowires are…
Spin-mixing enhanced proximity effect in aluminum-based superconductor-semiconductor hybrids
G. P. Mazur, N. van Loo, J. Y. Wang +13
In superconducting quantum circuits, aluminum is one of the most widely used materials. It is currently also the superconductor of choice for the development of topological qubits.…
Electronic Structure and Epitaxy of CdTe Shells on InSb Nanowires
Ghada Badawy, Bomin Zhang, Tomáš Rauch +10
Indium antimonide (InSb) nanowires are used as building blocks for quantum devices because of their unique properties, i.e., strong spin-orbit interaction and large Landé g-factor.…
Radio-frequency C-V measurements with sub-attofarad sensitivity
Filip K. Malinowski, Lin Han, Damaz de Jong +9
We demonstrate the use of radio-frequency (rf) resonators to measure the capacitance of nano-scale semiconducting devices in field-effect transistor configurations. The rf resonato…
Nonlocal measurement of quasiparticle charge and energy relaxation in proximitized semiconductor nanowires using quantum dots
Guanzhong Wang, Tom Dvir, Nick van Loo +6
The lowest-energy excitations of superconductors do not carry an electric charge, as their wave function is equally electron-like and hole-like. This fundamental property is not ea…
Supercurrent parity-meter in a nanowire Cooper-pair transistor
Ji-Yin Wang, Constantin Schrade, Vukan Levajac +13
We study a Cooper-pair transistor realized by two Josephson weak links that enclose a superconducting island in an InSb-Al hybrid nanowire. When the nanowire is subject to a magnet…
Triple Andreev dot chains in semiconductor nanowires
Hao Wu, Po Zhang, John P. T. Stenger +6
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…
Large zero-bias peaks in InSb-Al hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowire devices
Hao Zhang, Michiel W. A. de Moor, Jouri D. S. Bommer +19
We report electron transport studies on InSb-Al hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowire devices. Tunnelling spectroscopy is used to measure the evolution of subgap states whil…
Full parity phase diagram of a proximitized nanowire island
J. Shen, G. W. Winkler, F. Borsoi +14
We measure the charge periodicity of Coulomb blockade conductance oscillations of a hybrid InSb-Al island as a function of gate voltage and parallel magnetic field. The periodicity…
Single-shot fabrication of semiconducting-superconducting nanowire devices
Francesco Borsoi, Grzegorz P. Mazur, Nick van Loo +13
Semiconducting-superconducting nanowires attract widespread interest owing to the possible presence of non-abelian Majorana zero modes, which hold promise for topological quantum c…
Shadow-wall lithography of ballistic superconductor-semiconductor quantum devices
Sebastian Heedt, Marina Quintero-Pérez, Francesco Borsoi +14
The realization of a topological qubit calls for advanced techniques to readily and reproducibly engineer induced superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires. Here, we introduce a…