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Realizing Majorana modes in topological superconductors, i.e., the condensed-matter counterpart of Majorana fermions in particle physics, may lead to a major advance in the field of topologically-protected quantum computation. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

Quasiparticle poisoning, expected to arise during the measurement of Majorana zero mode state, poses a fundamental problem towards the realization of Majorana-based quantum computation. Parafermions, a natural generalization of Majorana…

We propose and analyze an approach to realize quantum computation and simulation using fermionic particles under quantum gas microscopes. Our work is inspired by a recent experimental demonstration of large-scale quantum registers, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Xiangkai Sun , Di Luo , Soonwon Choi

Thermal properties of quantum fields at finite temperature are crucial to understanding strongly interacting matter and recent development in quantum computing has provided an alternative and promising avenue of study. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Wenyang Qian , Bin Wu

We consider an experimentally feasible setup to demonstrate the existence and coherent dynamics of Majorana fermion. The transport setup consists of a quantum dot and a tunnel-coupled semiconductor nanowire which is anticipated to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Yunshan Cao , Peiyue Wang , Gang Xiong , Xin-Qi Li

Topological excitations, such as Majorana zero modes, are a promising route for encoding quantum information. Topologically protected gates of Majorana qubits, based on their braiding, will require some form of network. Here, we propose to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 L. C. Contamin , M. R. Delbecq , B. Dou çot , A. Cottet , T. Kontos

Clifford gates and transformations, which map products of elementary Pauli or Majorana operators to other such products, are foundational in quantum computing, underpinning the stabilizer formalism, error-correcting codes, magic state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Ilias Magoulas , Francesco A. Evangelista

In recent years, the study of Majorana signatures in quantum transport has become a central focus in condensed matter physics. Here, we present a rigorous and systematic derivation of the fermionic superoperator describing the open quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jia-Lin Pan , Zi-Fan Zhu , Shixuan Chen , Yu Su , Yao Wang

Qubits constructed from uncoupled Majorana fermions are protected from decoherence, but to perform a quantum computation this topological protection needs to be broken. Parity-protected quantum computation breaks the protection in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 F. Hassler , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Quantum error avoiding codes are constructed by exploiting a geometric interpretation of the algebra of measurements of an open quantum system. The notion of a generalized Dirac operator is introduced and used to naturally construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David D. Song , Richard J. Szabo

As the building blocks of topological quantum computation, Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have attracted tremendous attention in recent years. Scalable mesoscopic island designs with MZMs show great potential in quantum information processing.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Guan-Hao Feng , Jingwei Chen , Hong-Hao Zhang

The operator algebra of fermionic modes is isomorphic to that of qubits, the difference between them is twofold: the embedding of subalgebras corresponding to mode subsets and multiqubit subsystems on the one hand, and the parity…

We introduce exactly solvable models of interacting (Majorana) fermions in $d \ge 3$ spatial dimensions that realize a new kind of topological quantum order, building on a model presented in ref. [1]. These models have extensive topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-30 Sagar Vijay , Jeongwan Haah , Liang Fu

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

We simulate the dynamics of braiding Majorana zero modes on an IBM Quantum computer. We find the native quantum gates introduce too much noise to observe braiding. Instead, we use Qiskit Pulse to develop scaled two-qubit quantum gates that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 John P. T. Stenger , Nicholas T. Bronn , Daniel J. Egger , David Pekker

Fermion-to-qubit mappings that preserve geometric locality are especially useful for simulating lattice fermion models (e.g., the Hubbard model) on a quantum computer. They avoid the overhead associated with geometric non-local parity terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Zhang Jiang , Jarrod McClean , Ryan Babbush , Hartmut Neven

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

We consider Majorana fermion stabilizer codes with small number of modes and distance. We give an upper bound on the number of logical qubits for distance $4$ codes, and we construct Majorana fermion codes similar to the classical Hamming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 M. B. Hastings

We propose a computational protocol for quantum simulations of Fermionic Hamiltonians on a quantum computer, enabling calculations which were previously not feasible with conventional encoding and ansatses of variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Benchen Huang , Nan Sheng , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

Many-body fermionic systems can be simulated in a hardware-efficient manner using a fermionic quantum processor. Neutral atoms trapped in optical potentials can realize such processors, where non-local fermionic statistics are guaranteed at…