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most citedRealization of a minimal Kitaev chain in coupled quantum dots

301 citations · 920 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Majorana parity qubit in coupled minimal Kitaev chains

Francesco Zatelli, Bart Roovers, Nick van Loo +11

Majorana zero modes provide a route to fault-tolerant qubits by encoding information non-locally in fermion parity. Their sensitivity to noise is expected to decrease exponentially…

quant-ph2025

Broad nonlocal spectrum in the Pb-InSb hybrid three terminals for potential realization of Kitaev chains

Guoan Li, Xiaofan Shi, Ruixuan Zhang +21

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor(SC-SM) nanowires remain one of the foremost platforms for engineering topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes(MZMs) towards fault-…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain

Nick van Loo, Francesco Zatelli, Gorm O. Steffensen +12

Protecting qubits from noise is essential for building reliable quantum computers. Topological qubits offer a route to this goal by encoding quantum information non-locally, using…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Enhanced and modulable induced superconducting gap and effective Landé g-factor in Pb-InSb hybrid devices

Guoan Li, Xiaofan Shi, Ziwei Dou +21

The hybrid system of a conventional superconductor (SC) on a semiconductor (SM) nanowire with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) represents a promising platform for achieving topolog…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Probing Majorana localization of a phase-controlled three-site Kitaev chain with an additional quantum dot

Alberto Bordin, Florian J. Bennebroek Evertsz', Bart Roovers +11

Few-site implementations of the Kitaev chain offer a minimal platform to study the emergence and stability of Majorana bound states. Here, we realize two- and three-site chains in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Few-Mode and Anisotropic Quantum Transport in InSb Nanoribbons Using an All-van der Waals Material-Based Gate

Colin J. Riggert, Pim Lueb, Tyler Littmann +5

High-quality electrostatic gating is a fundamental ingredient for successful semiconducting device physics, and a key element of realizing clean quantum transport. Inspired by the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 43 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 64 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 13 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Versatile Method of Engineering the Band Alignment and the Electron Wavefunction Hybridization of Hybrid Quantum Devices

Guoan Li, Xiaofan Shi, Ting Lin +23

With the development of quantum technology, hybrid devices that combine superconductors (S) and semiconductors (Sm) have attracted great attention due to the possibility of enginee…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Diffusive and Ballistic Transport in Ultra-thin InSb Nanowire Devices Using a Few-layer-Graphene-AlOx Gate

Lior Shani, Pim Lueb, Gavin Menning +11

Quantum devices based on InSb nanowires (NWs) are a prime candidate system for realizing and exploring topologically-protected quantum states and for electrically-controlled spin-b…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 11 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 68 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 9 cited

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 34 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 301 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 133 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 13 cited

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 24 cited

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

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.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

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.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 12 cited

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…