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  bibo_abstract:
  - Quasiparticle excitations can compromise the performance of superconducting devices,
    causing high-frequency dissipation, decoherence in Josephson qubits, and braiding
    errors in proposed Majorana-based topological quantum computers. Quasiparticle
    dynamics have been studied in detail in metallic superconductors 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.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Andrew P
      foaf_name: Higginbotham, Andrew P
      foaf_surname: Higginbotham
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=4AD6785A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
    orcid: 0000-0003-2607-2363
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: S M
      foaf_name: Albrecht, S M
      foaf_surname: Albrecht
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Gediminas
      foaf_name: Kiršanskas, Gediminas
      foaf_surname: Kiršanskas
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: W
      foaf_name: Chang, W
      foaf_surname: Chang
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Ferdinand
      foaf_name: Kuemmeth, Ferdinand
      foaf_surname: Kuemmeth
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Peter
      foaf_name: Krogstrup, Peter
      foaf_surname: Krogstrup
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Thomas
      foaf_name: Jespersen, Thomas
      foaf_surname: Jespersen
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Jesper
      foaf_name: Nygård, Jesper
      foaf_surname: Nygård
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Karsten
      foaf_name: Flensberg, Karsten
      foaf_surname: Flensberg
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Charles
      foaf_name: Marcus, Charles
      foaf_surname: Marcus
  bibo_doi: 10.1038/nphys3461
  bibo_issue: '12'
  bibo_volume: 11
  dct_date: 2015^xs_gYear
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Nature Publishing Group@
  dct_title: Parity lifetime of bound states in a proximitized semiconductor nanowire@
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