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The topological Kondo effect is a genuine manifestation of the nonlocality of Majorana modes. We investigate its out-of-equilibrium signatures in a model with a Cooper-pair box hosting four of these topological modes, each connected to a…

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We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez

As quantum networks expand and are deployed outside research laboratories, a need arises to design and integrate compact control electronics for each memory node. It is essential to understand the performance requirements for such systems,…

We numerically investigate non-Abelian braiding dynamics of vortices in two-dimensional topological superconductors, such as $s$-wave superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Majorana zero modes (MZMs) hosted by the vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-16 Takumi Sanno , Shunsuke Miyazaki , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto

We demonstrate that a combination of Majorana edge modes (MEMs) and Majorana zero modes (MZMs) located in the vortex cores of two-dimensional topological superconductors represent a new platform for the efficient implementation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Jasmin Bedow , Dirk K. Morr

In this study, we show that quantum walk can describe a Majorana fermion when the coin operator constrained by Lorentz covariance and the initial state satisfies the Majorana condition. The time evolution of a Majorana fermion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Wei-Ting Wang , Xiao-Gang He , Hsien-Chung Kao , Ching-Ray Chang

We study the low-energy physics of a one-dimensional array of superconducting quantum dots realized by proximity coupling a semiconductor nanowire to multiple superconducting islands separated by narrow uncovered regions. The effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 John P. T. Stenger , Benjamin D. Woods , Sergey M. Frolov , Tudor D. Stanescu

We study the decoherence of a quantum computer in an environment which is inherently correlated in time and space. We first derive the nonunitary time evolution of the computer and environment in the presence of a stabilizer error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Novais , Harold U. Baranger

The interaction between solid-state qubits and their environmental degrees of freedom produces non-unitary effects like decoherence and dissipation. Uncontrolled decoherence is one of the main obstacles that must be overcome in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 Paula I. Villar , Fernando C. Lombardo

Majorana-based quantum computation in nanowires and neutral atoms has gained prominence as a promising platform to encode qubits and protect them against noise. In order to run computations reliably on such devices, a fully fault-tolerant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Maryam Mudassar , Alexander Schuckert , Daniel Gottesman

We numerically study the quantum phase transitions and the stability of Majorana zero modes in a generalized Kitaev model in one dimension when the chemical potential is periodically modulating in space. By using the exact diagonalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-17 Takumi Ohta , Keisuke Totsuka

We study electronic transport through a quantum dot in the Fermi-edge singularity regime, placing emphasis on its non-Markovian attributes. These are quantified by the behavior of current noise as well as trace-distance-based measure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Katarzyna Roszak , Tomáš Novotný

Logical qubits encoded in quantum error correcting codes can exhibit non-Markovian dynamical evolution, even when the underlying physical noise is Markovian. To understand this emergent non-Markovianity, we define a Markovianity condition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Jalan A. Ziyad , Robin Blume-Kohout , Kenneth Rudinger

Quantum error correction has recently emerged as a tool to enhance quantum sensing under Markovian noise. It works by correcting errors in a sensor while letting a signal imprint on the logical state. This approach typically requires a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 David Layden , Sisi Zhou , Paola Cappellaro , Liang Jiang

The realization of effective quantum error correction protocols remains a central challenge in the development of scalable quantum computers. Employing high-dimensional quantum systems (qudits) can offer more hardware-efficient protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Sumin Lim , Mikhail V. Vaganov , Junjie Liu , Arzhang Ardavan

A quantum system interacts with its environment, if ever so slightly, no matter how much care is put into isolating it. As a consequence, quantum bits (qubits) undergo errors, putting dauntingly difficult constraints on the hardware…

Non-Markovian processes may arise in physics due to memory effects of environmental degrees of freedom. For quantum non-Markovianity, it is an ongoing debate to clarify whether such memory effects have a verifiable quantum origin, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Charlotte Bäcker , Konstantin Beyer , Walter T. Strunz

Majorana zero modes in condensed matter systems have been the subject of much interest in recent years. Their non-Abelian exchange statistics, making them a unique state of matter, and their potential applications in topological quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

Quantum noise limits the use of quantum memory in high energy physics simulations. In particular, it breaks the gauge symmetry of stored quantum states. We examine this effect for abelian and nonabelian theories and demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-25 Erik J. Gustafson , Henry Lamm

The nonlocal nature of the fermionic mode spanned by a pair of Majorana bound states in a one-dimensional topological superconductor has inspired many proposals aiming at demonstrating this property in transport. In particular, transport…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-01 Jascha Ulrich , Fabian Hassler