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20072026
most citedEvidence of topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions

403 citations · 901 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Realization of Very High Mobility InAs Quantum Wells on InP Substrates Through Convex InAlAs Graded Buffer Optimization

Tyler Lindemann, Rojila Ghimire, Alejandro Alcaraz Ramirez +4

Due to strong spin-orbit coupling, large Landé -factor, and a highly transparent interface, the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in InAs quantum wells provides an ideal platf…

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-hall2026

Shubnikov-de Haas Characterization of Superconductor-Semiconductor Heterostructures

A. M. Zimmerman, Saeed Fallahi, Sergei Gronin +13

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanostructures are a central component for research spanning condensed matter physics and quantum information processing. Continued progress rel…

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★ 1 cited

Local and Non-local Microwave Impedance of a Three-Terminal Hybrid Device

B. Harlech-Jones, S. J. Waddy, J. D. S. Witt +8

We report microwave impedance measurements of a superconductor-semiconductor hybrid nanowire device with three terminals (3T). Our technique makes use of transmission line resonato…

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-hall2020★ 57 cited

Closing of the Induced Gap in a Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire

D. Puglia, E. A. Martinez, G. C. Ménard +8

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowires are predicted to undergo a field-induced phase transition from a trivial to a topological superconductor, marked by the closure and re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 20 cited

Stable quantum dots in an InSb two-dimensional electron gas

Ivan Kulesh, Chung Ting Ke, Candice Thomas +7

Indium antimonide (InSb) two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) have a unique combination of material properties: high electron mobility, strong spin-orbit interaction, large Landé…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 74 cited

Ballistic superconductivity and tunable -junctions in InSb quantum wells

Chung Ting Ke, Christian M. Moehle, Folkert K. de Vries +11

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) coupled to superconductors offer the opportunity to explore a variety of quantum phenomena. These include the study of novel Josephson effect…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 60 cited

Coherent transport through a Majorana island in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer

A. M. Whiticar, A. Fornieri, E. C. T. O'Farrell +9

Majorana zero modes are leading candidates for topological quantum computation due to non-local qubit encoding and non-abelian exchange statistics. Spatially separated Majorana mod…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 403 cited

Evidence of topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions

Antonio Fornieri, Alexander M. Whiticar, F. Setiawan +13

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle states localized at the boundaries of topological superconductors that are expected to be ideal building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum com…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 41 cited

High mobility InAs 2DEGs on GaSb substrates: a platform for mesoscopic quantum transport

C. Thomas, A. T. Hatke, A. Tuaz +7

High mobility, strong spin-orbit coupling, and large Landé g-factor make the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in InAs quantum wells grown on nearly-lattice-matched GaSb substrat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007★ 20 cited

Measurement of the spin polarization of the magnetic semiconductor EuS with zero-field and Zeeman-split Andreev reflection spectroscopy

Cong Ren, J. Trbovic, R. L. Kallaher +4

We report measurements of the spin polarization (\textbf{\textit{P}}) of the concentrated magnetic semiconductor EuS using both zero-field and Zeeman-split Andreev reflection spect…