Search Results - "Kouwenhoven, Leo P."
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Next steps of quantum transport in Majorana nanowire devices
Published in Nature communications (12-11-2019)“…Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically…”
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Observation of the 4π-periodic Josephson effect in indium arsenide nanowires
Published in Nature communications (16-01-2019)“…Quantum computation by non-Abelian Majorana zero modes (MZMs) offers an approach to achieve fault tolerance by encoding quantum information in the non-local…”
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One minute parity lifetime of a NbTiN Cooper-pair transistor
Published in Nature physics (01-07-2015)“…One minute parity lifetimes are reported in a superconducting transistor made of niobium titanite nitride coupled to aluminium contacts even in the presence of…”
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Ballistic superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires
Published in Nature communications (06-07-2017)“…Semiconductor nanowires have opened new research avenues in quantum transport owing to their confined geometry and electrostatic tunability. They have offered…”
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Selectivity Map for Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Advanced III–V Quantum Nanowire Networks
Published in Nano letters (09-01-2019)“…Selective-area growth is a promising technique for enabling of the fabrication of the scalable III–V nanowire networks required to test proposals for…”
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Bright single-photon sources in bottom-up tailored nanowires
Published in Nature communications (13-03-2012)“…The ability to achieve near-unity light-extraction efficiency is necessary for a truly deterministic single-photon source. The most promising method to reach…”
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Spin-Orbit Protection of Induced Superconductivity in Majorana Nanowires
Published in Physical review letters (10-05-2019)“…Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) plays a key role in creating Majorana zero modes in semiconductor nanowires proximity coupled to a superconductor. We track the…”
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Shadow-wall lithography of ballistic superconductor–semiconductor quantum devices
Published in Nature communications (13-08-2021)“…The realization of hybrid superconductor–semiconductor quantum devices, in particular a topological qubit, calls for advanced techniques to readily and…”
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Electric field tunable superconductor-semiconductor coupling in Majorana nanowires
Published in New journal of physics (31-10-2018)“…We study the effect of external electric fields on superconductor-semiconductor coupling by measuring the electron transport in InSb semiconductor nanowires…”
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Parity transitions in the superconducting ground state of hybrid InSb–Al Coulomb islands
Published in Nature communications (15-11-2018)“…The number of electrons in small metallic or semiconducting islands is quantised. When tunnelling is enabled via opaque barriers this number can change by an…”
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Conductance Quantization at Zero Magnetic Field in InSb Nanowires
Published in Nano letters (08-06-2016)“…Ballistic electron transport is a key requirement for existence of a topological phase transition in proximitized InSb nanowires. However, measurements of…”
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Edge transport in the trivial phase of InAs/GaSb
Published in New journal of physics (01-08-2016)“…We present transport and scanning SQUID measurements on InAs/GaSb double quantum wells, a system predicted to be a two-dimensional topological insulator. Top…”
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A High Quality Factor Carbon Nanotube Mechanical Resonator at 39 GHz
Published in Nano letters (11-01-2012)“…We measure the mechanical resonances of an as-grown suspended carbon nanotube, detected via electrical mixing in the device. A sequence of modes extending to…”
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Electric and Magnetic Tuning Between the Trivial and Topological Phases in InAs/GaSb Double Quantum Wells
Published in Physical review letters (17-07-2015)“…Among the theoretically predicted two-dimensional topological insulators, InAs/GaSb double quantum wells (DQWs) have a unique double-layered structure with…”
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Carbon Nanotubes as Ultrahigh Quality Factor Mechanical Resonators
Published in Nano letters (08-07-2009)“…We have observed the transversal vibration mode of suspended carbon nanotubes at millikelvin temperatures by measuring the single-electron tunneling current…”
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Quantized Conductance and Large g‑Factor Anisotropy in InSb Quantum Point Contacts
Published in Nano letters (14-12-2016)“…Because of a strong spin–orbit interaction and a large Landé g-factor, InSb plays an important role in research on Majorana fermions. To further explore novel…”
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Spin-filtered measurements of Andreev bound states in semiconductor-superconductor nanowire devices
Published in Nature communications (28-10-2023)“…Semiconductor nanowires coupled to superconductors can host Andreev bound states with distinct spin and parity, including a spin-zero state with an even number…”
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Electrostatic control of the proximity effect in the bulk of semiconductor-superconductor hybrids
Published in Nature communications (07-06-2023)“…The proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is expected to generate an induced gap in the semiconductor. The magnitude of this induced gap,…”
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Subgap spectroscopy along hybrid nanowires by nm-thick tunnel barriers
Published in Nature communications (20-10-2023)“…Tunneling spectroscopy is widely used to examine the subgap spectra in semiconductor-superconductor nanostructures when searching for Majorana zero modes…”
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Robust poor man’s Majorana zero modes using Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states
Published in Nature communications (11-09-2024)“…Kitaev chains in quantum dot-superconductor arrays are a promising platform for the realization of topological superconductivity. As recently demonstrated,…”
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