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Dynamics of Majorana-based qubits operated with an array of tunable gates

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-07-18 v2

Abstract

We study the dynamics of Majorana zero modes that are shuttled via local tuning of the electrochemical potential in a superconducting wire. By performing time-dependent simulations of microscopic lattice models, we show that diabatic corrections associated with the moving Majorana modes are quantitatively captured by a simple Landau-Zener description. We further simulate a Rabi-oscillation protocol in a specific qubit design with four Majorana zero modes in a single wire and quantify constraints on the timescales for performing qubit operations in this setup. Our simulations utilize a Majorana representation of the system, which greatly simplifies simulations of superconductors at the mean-field level.

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@article{arxiv.1803.05451,
  title  = {Dynamics of Majorana-based qubits operated with an array of tunable gates},
  author = {Bela Bauer and Torsten Karzig and Ryan V. Mishmash and Andrey E. Antipov and Jason Alicea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05451},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures. v2: minor corrections, updated references