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Majorana fermions, quantum particles with non-Abelian exchange statistics, are not only of fundamental importance, but also building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Although certain experimental breakthroughs for observing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Rui-Lin Chu , Gui-Bin Liu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Di Xiao , Chuanwei Zhang

Topological quantum information processing relies on adiabatic braiding of nonabelian quasiparticles. Performing the braiding operations in finite time introduces transitions out of the ground-state manifold and deviations from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Torsten Karzig , Falko Pientka , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

Majorana fermions subject to the non-Abelian braid group are believed to be the basic ingredients of future topological quantum computations. In this work, we propose to simulate Majorana fermions of the Kitaev model in electric circuits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Motohiko Ezawa

Braiding Majorana zero-modes around each other is a promising route towards topological quantum computing. Yet, two competing maxims emerge when implementing Majorana braiding in real systems: On the one hand, perfect braiding should be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Niels Breckwoldt , Thore Posske , Michael Thorwart

It is generally thought that adiabatic exchange of two identical particles is impossible in one spatial dimension. Here we describe a simple protocol that permits adiabatic exchange of two Majorana fermions in a one-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Ching-Kai Chiu , M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

We describe designs for the realization of topological Majorana qubits in terms of proximitized topological insulator nanoribbons pierced by a uniform axial magnetic field. This platform holds promise for particularly robust Majorana bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Jan Manousakis , Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets , Reinhold Egger , Yoichi Ando

In this article we analyze the efficiency of operations based on transferring charge from a quantum dot (QD) to two coupled topological superconductors, which can be used for performing nonabelian operations on Majorana bound states (MBSs).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 R. Seoane Souto , K. Flensberg , M. Leijnse

We demonstrate how to design various nonstandard types of Andreev-bound-state (ABS) dispersions, via a composite construction relying on Majorana bound states (MBSs). Here, the MBSs appear at the interface of a Josephson junction consisting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-23 Panagiotis Kotetes , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco

We propose an experiment to directly probe the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana fermions by braiding them in an s-wave superfluid of ultracold atoms. We show different orders of braiding operations give orthogonal output states that can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-23 Shi-Liang Zhu , L. B. Shao , Z. D. Wang , Lu-Ming Duan

In a recent breakthrough experiment [Nature (London) 614, 445 (2023)], signatures of Majorana zero modes have been observed in tunnel spectroscopy for a minimal Kitaev chain constructed from coupled quantum dots. However, as Ising anyons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Chun-Xiao Liu , Haining Pan , F. Setiawan , Michael Wimmer , Jay D. Sau

The search for Majorana bound state (MBS) has recently emerged as one of the most active research areas in condensed matter physics, fueled by the prospect of using its non-Abelian statistics for robust quantum computation. A highly…

The study of non-Abelian Majorana zero modes advances our understanding of the fundamental physics in quantum matter, and pushes the potential applications of such exotic states to topological quantum computation. It has been shown that in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Xiong-Jun Liu , Chris L. M. Wong , K. T. Law

Topological Quantum Computing has largely evolved towards a paradigm of manipulating edge localized Majorana within $p$-wave topological superconducting nanowires. To bridge the gap between physical qubit systems and quantum algorithms, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Adrian D. Scheppe , Michael V. Pak

Recent advances in quantum dot platforms have opened new pathways for realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs) and simulating topological quantum computation. Here we propose an experimentally feasible setup for implementing topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Bradraj Pandey , Satoshi Okamoto , Pontus Laurell , Stephan Rachel , Elbio Dagotto

Semiconductor nanowires provide an ideal platform for various low-dimensional quantum devices. In particular, topological phases of matter hosting non-Abelian quasi-particles can emerge when a semiconductor nanowire with strong spin-orbit…

Exchangeless braiding of Majorana modes is studied in minimal networks of weakly hybridized Kitaev chains of finite length using a rigorous many-body framework. In particular, for two coupled chains it is shown that exchangeless braiding is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Robin Quade , Michael Potthoff

In modern experiments with hybrid superconducting (SC)/semiconducting nanowires the presence of zero-energy Andreev bound states (ABSs), characterized by a partial overlap of the Majorana wave functions, is a common problem that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 S. V. Aksenov

Recent studies propose Majorana polarization (MP) as a tool for identifying topological Majorana bound states (MBS). We analyze MP in two systems: a one-dimensional (1d) semiconducting nanowire and a quasi-1d system, both with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Shubhanshu Karoliya , Sumanta Tewari , Gargee Sharma

Motivated by an important recent experiment [Deng et al., Science 354, 1557 (2016)], we theoretically consider the interplay between Andreev bound states(ABSs) and Majorana bound states(MBSs) in quantum dot-nanowire semiconductor systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Chun-Xiao Liu , Jay D. Sau , Tudor D. Stanescu , S. Das Sarma

We propose an alternative route to transport experiments for detecting Majorana bound states (MBSs) by combining topological superconductivity with quantum optics in a superconducting $pn$ junction containing a quantum dot (QD). We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 L. Bittermann , C. De Beule , D. Frombach , P. Recher