Engineering Yang-Lee anyons via Majorana bound states
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 , 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.
Keywords
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
12 pages, 11 figures