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Engineering Yang-Lee anyons via Majorana bound states

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-12-06 v5 Superconductivity

Abstract

We propose the platform of a Yang-Lee anyon system which is constructed from Majorana bound states in topological superconductors. Yang-Lee anyons, described by the non-unitary conformal field theory with the central charge c=22/5c=-22/5, are non-unitary counterparts of Fibonacci anyons, obeying the same fusion rule, but exhibiting non-unitary non-Abelian braiding statistics. We consider a topological superconductor junction system coupled with dissipative electron baths, which realizes a non-Hermitian interacting Majorana system. Numerically estimating the central charge, we examine the condition that the non-Hermitian Majorana system can simulate the Ising spin model of the Yang-Lee edge singularity, and confirm that, by controlling model parameters in a feasible way, the Yang-Lee edge criticality is realized. On the basis of this scenario, we present the scheme for the fusion, measurement and braiding of Yang-Lee anyons in our proposed setup.

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@article{arxiv.2208.01803,
  title  = {Engineering Yang-Lee anyons via Majorana bound states},
  author = {Takumi Sanno and Masahiko G. Yamada and Takeshi Mizushima and Satoshi Fujimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01803},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages, 11 figures