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Heterostructures of spin-orbit coupled materials with s-wave superconductors are thought to be capable of supporting zero-energy Majorana bound states. Such excitations are known to obey non-Abelian statistics in two dimensions, and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 David J Clarke , Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari

We consider a model of ballistic quasi-one dimensional semiconducting wire with intrinsic spin-orbit interaction placed on the surface of a bulk s-wave superconductor (SC), in the presence of an external magnetic field. This setup has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 A. A. Zyuzin , Diego Rainis , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Certain one-dimensional Fermi systems have an energy gap in the bulk spectrum while boundary states are described by one Majorana operator per boundary point. A finite system of length $L$ possesses two ground states with an energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei Kitaev

Recent experiments have produced mounting evidence of Majorana zero modes in nanowire-superconductor hybrids. Signatures of an expected topological phase transition accompanying the onset of these modes nevertheless remain elusive. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Ryan V. Mishmash , David Aasen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Jason Alicea

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

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…

Topological quantum computation, featuring qubits built out of anyonic excitations known as Majorana zero modes (MZMs), have long presented an exciting pathway towards scalable quantum computation. Recently, the advent of altermagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Stephan Rachel

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

We propose a versatile platform to investigate the existence of Majorana bound states (MBSs) and their non-Abelian statistics through braiding. This implementation combines a two-dimensional electron gas formed in a semiconductor quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Geoffrey L. Fatin , Alex Matos-Abiague , Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

We study the condition for a topological superconductor (TS) phase with end Majorana fermions to appear when a quasiperiodic lattice modulation is applied to a one-dimensional quantum wire with strong spin-orbit interaction situated under a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

We theoretically consider the effect of a spatially periodic modulation of the superconducting order parameter on the formation of Majorana fermions induced by a one-dimensional system with magnetic impurities brought into close proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Executing quantum algorithms using Majorana zero modes - a major milestone for the field of topological quantum computing - requires a platform that can be scaled to large quantum registers, can be controlled in real time and space, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jasmin Bedow , Dirk K. Morr

We study the dynamics of Majorana zero modes that are shuttled via local tuning of the electrochemical potential in a superconducting wire. By performing time-dependent simulations of microscopic lattice models, we show that diabatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Bela Bauer , Torsten Karzig , Ryan V. Mishmash , Andrey E. Antipov , Jason Alicea

We investigate non-Abelian statistics of Majorana Kramers pairs (MKPs) in a network system of one-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological superconductors by using numerical simulations of braiding dynamics, and examine the tolerance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-01 Yuki Tanaka , Takumi Sanno , Takeshi Mizushima , Satoshi Fujimoto

Qubits built out of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have long been theorized as a potential pathway toward fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Almost unavoidable in these processes is Majorana wavefunction overlap, known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Dan Crawford , Stephan Rachel

I point out that a possible minimal setting to realize Kitaev's proposal of a Topological Quantum Computation which offers topological protection from decoherence could in principle be realized by braided Majorana qubits. Majorana qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco Toppan

We propose a system of coupled quantum dots in proximity to a superconductor and driven by separate ac potentials to realize and detect Floquet Majorana fermions. We show that the appearance of Floquet Majorana fermions can be finely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Yantao Li , Arijit Kundu , Fan Zhong , Babak Seradjeh

We investigate the transport properties of Majorana zero mode (MZM) and Majorana Kramers pair (MKP) in one-dimensional topological superconductors, respectively. An effective model is established for braiding of MZMs and MKPs. We employ the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Hongfa Pan , Zhengtian Li , Jinxiong Jia , Zhenhua Qiao

We analyze the reading and initialization of a topological qubit encoded by Majorana fermions in one-dimensional semiconducting nanowires, weakly coupled to a single level quantum dot (QD). It is shown that when the Majorana fermions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wei Chen , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Z. D. Wang , R. Shen , D. Y. Xing

As part of the intense effort towards identifying platforms in which Majorana bound states can be realized and manipulated to perform qubit operations, we propose a topological Josephson junction architecture that achieves these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Suraj S. Hegde , Guang Yue , Yuxuan Wang , Erik Huemiller , D. J. Van Harlingen , Smitha Vishveshwara