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Qubit realizations based on Majorana bound states have been considered promising candidates for quantum information processing which is inherently inert to decoherence. We put the underlying general arguments leading to this conjecture to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Jan Carl Budich , Stefan Walter , Bjoern Trauzettel

Chiral Majorana edge modes are theoretically proposed to perform braiding operations for the potential quantum computation. Here, we suggest a scheme to regulate trajectories of the chiral Majorana fermion based on a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Qing Yan , Yan-Feng Zhou , Qing-Feng Sun

Zero--energy Majorana quasiparticles can be induced at the edge of a low dimensional systems. Non--Abelian statistics of this state makes it a good candidate for the realization of quantum computing. From the practical point of view, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Aksel Kobiałka , Andrzej Ptok

Braiding of Majorana states demonstrates their non-Abelian exchange statistics. One implementation of braiding requires control of the pairwise couplings between all Majorana states in a trijunction device. To have adiabaticity, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Juan Daniel Torres Luna , Sathish R. Kuppuswamy , Anton R. Akhmerov

We show that elongated magnetic skyrmions can host Majorana bound states in a proximity-coupled two-dimensional electron gas sandwiched between a chiral magnet and an $s$-wave superconductor. Our proposal requires stable skyrmions with unit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Utkan Güngördü , Shane Sandhoefner , Alexey A. Kovalev

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems that have been proposed as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers [1]. They are expected to exhibit non-Abelian particle statistics, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 S. M. Albrecht , A. P. Higginbotham , M. Madsen , F. Kuemmeth , T. S. Jespersen , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

In this paper we present a hybrid scheme for topological quantum computation in a system of cold atoms trapped in an atomic lattice. A topological qubit subspace is defined using Majorana fermions which emerge in a network of atomic Kitaev…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 C. Laflamme , M. A. Baranov , P. Zoller , C. V. Kraus

Universal set of quantum gates are realized from the conduction-band electron spin qubits of quantum dots embedded in a microcavity via two-channel Raman interaction. All of the gate operations are independent of the cavity mode states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 Ping Dong , Ming Yang , Zhuo-Liang Cao

Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum operations which could in principle significantly reduce qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu , Michael Wimmer , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

We investigate the non-adiabatic processes occurring during the manipulations of Majorana qubits in 1-D semiconducting wires with proximity induced superconductivity. Majorana qubits are usually protected by the excitation gap. Yet,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Mathias S. Scheurer , Alexander Shnirman

Demonstration of non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS) is crucial for the realization of fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Two-dimensional platforms such as planar Josephson junctions require an in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

It is shown that Majorana fermions trapped in three vortices in a p-wave superfluid form a qubit in a topological quantum computing (TQC). Several similar ideas have already been proposed: Ivanov [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86}, 268 (2001)] and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tetsuo Ohmi , Mikio Nakahara

Two-dimensional electron gases with strong spin-orbit coupling covered by a superconducting layer offer a flexible and potentially scalable platform for Majorana networks. We predict Majorana bound states (MBSs) to appear for experimentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Michael Hell , Karsten Flensberg , Martin Leijnse

Evaluating the stability of Majorana qubits (MQ) is crucial for the advancement of topological quantum computation. In this work, we propose a method to quantify the stability of MQs through their Rabi oscillations.Our approach involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Yu Zhang , Jiayi Chen , Jie Liu , X. C. Xie

Majorana fermions and their generalizations to $\mathbb{Z}_n$ parafermions are considered promising building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers for their ability to encode quantum information nonlocally. In such topological quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Ali Hamed Safwan , Raditya Weda Bomantara

We describe how microwave spectroscopy of cold fermions in quasi-1D traps can be used to detect, manipulate, and entangle exotic non-local qbits associated with "Majorana" edge modes. We present different approaches to generate the p-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Erich J. Mueller

Avenues of Majorana bound states (MBSs) have become one of the primary directions towards a possible realization of topological quantum computation. For a Y-junction of Kitaev quantum wires, we numerically investigate the braiding of MBSs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Michael Sekania , Stephan Plugge , Martin Greiter , Ronny Thomale , Peter Schmitteckert

We describe Majorana edge states of a semi-infinite wire using the complex band structure approach. In this method the edge state at a given energy is built as a superposition of evanescent waves. It is shown that the superposition can not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Llorenç Serra

Surface codes have emerged as promising candidates for quantum information processing. Building on the previous idea to realize the physical qubits of such systems in terms of Majorana bound states supported by topological semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 L. A. Landau , S. Plugge , E. Sela , A. Altland , S. M. Albrecht , R. Egger

Fibonacci anyons are attractive for use in topological quantum computation because any unitary transformation of their state space can be approximated arbitrarily accurately by braiding. However there is no known braid that entangles two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Stephen Bigelow , Claire Levaillant