Recent progress on Majorana in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures--Engineering and detection

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in creating and detecting Majorana zero modes in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures, highlighting progress and challenges in their potential use for topological quantum computing.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in engineering and detecting MZMs in hybrid heterostructures, and discusses quantum computation protocols.

Findings

Progress in engineering MZMs in heterostructures

Advances in detection techniques for MZMs

Discussion of quantum computation protocols using MZMs

Abstract

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are exotic excitations (in condensed matter systems) that have potential applications in topological quantum computation. Though MZMs have been predicted on many platforms, their existence of them is still under debate. In this paper, we review the recent progress of engineering and detecting MZMs in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. We also briefly review the protocols of implementing topological quantum computation by hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowires.