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most citedRealization of a minimal Kitaev chain in coupled quantum dots

301 citations · 801 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026★ 1 cited

Using Andreev bound states and spin to remove domain walls in a Kitaev chain

Wietze D. Huisman, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Chun-Xiao Liu +6

Quantum dot-superconductor hybrids have been established as a suitable platform for realizing Kitaev chains hosting Majorana bound states. Implementing these structures in a qubit…

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

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-hall2024★ 31 cited

Observation of edge and bulk states in a three-site Kitaev chain

Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Yining Zhang, Qingzhen Wang +10

A chain of quantum dots (QDs) in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems can form an artificial Kitaev chain hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). These zero-energy states are…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 8 cited

Scaling up a sign-ordered Kitaev chain without magnetic flux control

Chun-Xiao Liu, Sebastian Miles, Alberto Bordin +4

Quantum dot-superconductor arrays have emerged as a new and promising material platform for realizing topological Kitaev chains. So far, experiments have implemented a two-site cha…

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-hall2024★ 10 cited

Supercurrent through an Andreev trimer

Alberto Bordin, Florian J. Bennebroek Evertsz', Gorm O. Steffensen +8

Detection and control of Andreev Bound States (ABSs) localized at semiconductor-superconductor interfaces are essential for their use in quantum applications. Here we investigate t…

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★ 53 cited

Crossed Andreev reflection and elastic co-tunneling in a three-site Kitaev chain nanowire device

Alberto Bordin, Xiang Li, David van Driel +7

The formation of a topological superconducting phase in a quantum-dot-based Kitaev chain requires nearest neighbor crossed Andreev reflection and elastic co-tunneling. Here we repo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 31 cited

Adversarial Hamiltonian learning of quantum dots in a minimal Kitaev chain

Rouven Koch, David van Driel, Alberto Bordin +2

Determining Hamiltonian parameters from noisy experimental measurements is a key task for the control of experimental quantum systems. An experimental platform that recently emerge…

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.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…