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Braiding of Majorana zero modes provides a promising platform for quantum information processing, which is topologically protected against errors. Strictly speaking, however, the scheme relies on infinite braiding times as it utilizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Torsten Karzig , Armin Rahmani , Felix von Oppen , Gil Refael

We investigate the effects of coupling a local electromagnetic cavity to a segment of a topological Kitaev chain (KC), with particular emphasis on the interplay between photons and Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In addition to the well-known…

Majorana zero mode (MZM) exhibits inherent resilience to local parametric fluctuations, due to the topological protection mechanism in the non-Abelian braiding statistics of the anyonic quasiparticles. In this paper, we construct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Zhu-yao Jin , Jun Jing

Magnetic skyrmions are highly mobile nanoscale topological spin textures. We show, both analytically and numerically, that a magnetic skyrmion of an even azimuthal winding number placed in proximity to an s-wave superconductor hosts a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-06 Guang Yang , Peter Stano , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

There has been experimental evidence for the Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in solid state systems, which are building blocks for potential topological quantum computing. It is important to design devices, in which MZMs are easy to manipulate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-20 Chuang Li , Xun-Jiang Luo , Li Chen , Dong E. Liu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Xin Liu

Color-code quantum computation seamlessly combines Majorana-based hardware with topological error correction. Specifically, as Clifford gates are transversal in two-dimensional color codes, they enable the use of the Majoranas' nonabelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Daniel Litinski , Felix von Oppen

Planar Josephson junctions provide a versatile platform, alternative to the nanowire-based geometry, for the generation of the Majorana bound states, due to the additional phase tunability of the topological superconductivity. The proximity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-19 Narayan Mohanta , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

We propose a scheme to braid Majorana zero modes (MZMs) through steering the spin degree of freedom, without moving, measuring, or more generically fusing the modes. For a spinful Majorana system, we show that braiding two MZMs is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Xun-Jiang Luo , Ying-Ping He , Ting Fung Jeffrey Poon , Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

Cavity embedding is an emerging paradigm for the control of quantum matter, offering avenues to manipulate electronic states and potentially drive topological phase transitions. In this work, we address the stability of a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Zeno Bacciconi , Gian Marcello Andolina , Christophe Mora

We propose using a mobile magnetic domain wall as a host of zero-energy Majorana fermions in a spin-orbit coupled nanowire sandwiched by two ferromagnetic strips and deposited on an $s$-wave superconductor. The ability to control domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Se Kwon Kim , Sumanta Tewari , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We analyze a prototypical particle-in-a-box model for a hole spin qubit. This quantum dot is subjected to static magnetic and electric fields, and to a radio-frequency electric field that drives Rabi oscillations owing to spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Benjamin Venitucci , Yann-Michel Niquet

Silicon spin qubits promise to leverage the extraordinary progress in silicon nanoelectronic device fabrication over the past half century to deliver large-scale quantum processors. Despite the scalability advantage of using silicon…

Quantum logic gates are the key elements in quantum computing. Here we investigate the possibility of achieving a scalable and compact quantum computing based on stationary electron-spin qubits, by using the giant optical circular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hai-Rui Wei , Fu-Guo Deng

We consider a potential landscape composed of a well region separated from a "free" region by a barrier, such that one bound state and one quasi level exist in the well. A particle initially in the ground state can be activated to the quasi…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Thierry Martin , Gennady Berman

Superconducting circuits are among the leading contenders for quantum information processing. This promising avenue has been strengthened with the advent of circuit quantum electrodynamics, underlined by recent experiments coupling on-chip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Ferdinand Helmer , Matteo Mariantoni , Austin G. Fowler , Jan von Delft , Enrique Solano , Florian Marquardt

We propose to implement tunable interfaces for realizing universal quantum computation with topological qubits. One interface is between the topological and superconducting qubits, which can realize arbitrary single-qubit gate on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-21 Zheng-Yuan Xue , L. B. Shao , Yong Hu , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

It has been argued that fluctuations of fermion parity are harmful for the demonstration of non-Abelian anyonic statistics. Here, we demonstrate a striking exception in which such fluctuations are actively used. We present a theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Sunghun Park , H. -S. Sim , Patrik Recher

We propose a scheme for quantum computing using high-Q cavities in which the qubits are represented by single cavity modes restricted in the space spanned by the two lowest Fock states. We show that single qubit operations and universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. Giovannetti , D. Vitali , P. Tombesi , A. Ekert

We describe a scheme to exchange fermion parity between two pairs of Majorana bound states mediated by coupling with a centralized quantum dot. We specifically formulate such a scheme for Majorana bound states nucleated in the Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Varsha Subramanyan , Jukka I Vayrynen , Alex Levchenko , Smitha Vishveshwara

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang