Abstract

A superconducting hard gap in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices has been found to be necessary to access topological superconductivity that hosts Majorana modes (non-Abelian excitation). This requires the formation of homogeneous and barrier-free interfaces between the superconductor and semiconductor. Here, a new platform is reported for topological superconductivity based on hybrid Nb-In0.75 Ga0.25 As-quantum-well-Nb that results in hard superconducting gap detection in symmetric, planar, and ballistic Josephson junctions. It is shown that with careful etching, sputtered Nb films can make high-quality and transparent contacts to the In0.75 Ga0.25 As quantum well, and the differential resistance and critical current measurements of these devices are discussed as a function of temperature and magnetic field. It is demonstrated that proximity-induced superconductivity in the In0.75 Ga0.25 As-quantum-well 2D electron gas results in the detection of a hard gap in four out of seven junctions on a chip with critical current values of up to 0.2 µA and transmission probabilities of >0.96. The results, together with the large g-factor and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in In0.75 Ga0.25 As quantum wells, which indeed can be tuned by the indium composition, suggest that the Nb-In0.75 Ga0.25 As-Nb system can be an excellent candidate to achieve topological phase and to realize hybrid topological superconducting devices.

Highlights

  • A superconducting hard gap in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor computers.[2,3,4] there still is a fundamental technological problem devices has been found to be necessary to access topological superconducin the fabrication of highly transparent tivity that hosts Majorana modes

  • This work involved the in situ deposition of Al on indium arsen­ide (InAs) in a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) chamber after the semiconductor growth has been completed.[5]

  • We study the fabrication and low-temperature measurements of eight symmetric Similar high-quality semiconducting–superconducting (S–Sm–S) planar and ballistic Josephson junctions on a chip containing an In0.75Ga0.25As quantum well in a heterostructure in which each junction consists of two identical niobium (Nb) superconducting electrodes in contact with a 2DEG that is formed ≈120 nm below the wafer’s surface

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Introduction

A superconducting hard gap in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor computers.[2,3,4] there still is a fundamental technological problem devices has been found to be necessary to access topological superconducin the fabrication of highly transparent tivity that hosts Majorana modes (non-Abelian excitation). Nb films can make high-quality and transparent contacts to the In0.75Ga0.25As quantum well, and the differential resistance and critical current measurements of these devices are discussed as a function of temperature and magnetic field.

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