Broad nonlocal spectrum in the Pb-InSb hybrid three terminals for potential realization of Kitaev chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10064v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:59:39 GMT
• Title: Broad nonlocal spectrum in the Pb-InSb hybrid three terminals for potential realization of Kitaev chains
• Authors: Guoan Li, Xiaofan Shi, Ruixuan Zhang, Yuxiao Song, Marco Rossi, Ghada Badawy, Zhiyuan Zhang, Anqi Wang, Xingchen Guo, Xiao Deng, Xiao Chen, Liangqian Xu, Bingbing Tong, Peiling Li, Xiaohui Song, Zhaozheng Lyu, Guangtong Liu, Fanming Qu, Michał P. Nowak, Paweł Wójcik, Ziwei Dou, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Li Lu, Jie Shen,
• Abstract summary: We present the first three-terminal Pb-hybrid devices and perform nonlocal differential-conductance spectroscopy on this platform.<n>We observe several types of Andreev bound states(ABSs) that undergo singlet-doublet transitions.<n>The robustness of the nonlocal signatures persist up to temperatures(1K) far above the operating temperature of Al-based devices.
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• Abstract: Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor(SC-SM) nanowires remain one of the foremost platforms for engineering topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes(MZMs) towards fault-tolerant topological qubits, especially with the rapid development of artificial Kitaev chains. In contrast to the widely used aluminum(Al)-based hybrids, lead(Pb) offers a bulk superconducting gap of ~1.4meV and a critical temperature of ~7.2K, giving rise to a proximity-induced gap that is roughly five times larger than that obtained with Al. Here we present the first three-terminal Pb-hybrid devices and perform nonlocal differential-conductance spectroscopy on this platform. The nonlocal measurement simultaneously resolves a dual-gap feature of the parent Pb gap and the large, hard, gate-tunable induced superconducting gap, distinguished by a switch between electron- and hole-like dissipation processes. Within the induced gap we observe several types of Andreev bound states(ABSs) that undergo singlet-doublet transitions. Moreover, by tuning gate voltages we achieve gate-controlled resonating sign reversals of the nonlocal conductance, identifying three distinct regimes that correspond to different configurations of quantum-dot(QD) resonances(single-resonance, double-resonance, and series-resonance). Finally, the coupling between ABSs and QDs also present and can be modulated from the weak- to strong-coupling limit, indicating the feasibility of realizing the artificial Kitaev chains. Crucially, the robust nonlocal signatures persist up to temperatures(~1K) far above the operating temperature of Al-based devices thanks to the unusually large induced gap, thereby widening the accessible parameter space greatly and underscoring the suitability of Pb-based hybrids for implementing warm temperature artificial Kitaev chains and the topological quantum devices protected by a substantially larger topological gap.

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