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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 1017-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3461
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- Microsoft Project Q
- Danish National Research Foundation
- Lundbeck Foundation
- Carlsberg Foundation
- European Commission
- US Department of Energy
- Villum Foundation
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Quasiparticle excitations can compromise the performance of superconducting devices, causing high-frequency dissipation, decoherence in Josephson qubits(1-6), and braiding errors in proposed Majorana-based topological quantum computers(7-9). Quasiparticle dynamics have been studied in detail in metallic superconductors(10-14) but remain relatively unexplored in semiconductor-superconductor structures, which are now being intensely pursued in the context of topological superconductivity. To this end, we use a system comprising a gate-confined semiconductor nanowire with an epitaxially grown superconductor layer, yielding an isolated, proximitized nanowire segment. We identify bound states in the semiconductor by means of bias spectroscopy, determine the characteristic temperatures and magnetic fields for quasiparticle excitations, and extract a parity lifetime (poisoning time) of the bound state in the semiconductor exceeding 10 ms.
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