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Superconductors hosting long-sought excitations called Majorana fermions may be ultimately used as qubits of fault-tolerant topological quantum computers. A crucial challenge toward the topological quantum computer is to implement quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Cássio Sozinho Amorim , Kazuto Ebihara , Ai Yamakage , Yukio Tanaka , Masatoshi Sato

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticles that hold promise as building blocks for topological quantum computing. However, the litmus test for their detection, the observation of exotic non-abelian statistics revealed by braiding, has so far…

In the context of slow quenching dynamics of a $p$-wave superconducting chain, it has been shown that a Majorana edge state can not be adiabatically transported from one topological phase to the other separated by a quantum critical line.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Atanu Rajak , Tanay Nag , Amit Dutta

We show how vortices that support Majorana fermions when placed on a periodic pinning array can be used for vortex exchange and independent braiding by performing a series of specific moves with a probe tip. Using these braiding operations,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-23 X. Ma , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

In topological quantum computing, unitary operations on qubits are performed by adiabatic braiding of non-Abelian quasiparticles, such as Majorana zero modes, and are protected from local environmental perturbations. In the adiabatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Armin Rahmani , Babak Seradjeh , Marcel Franz

Majorana zero modes have gained significant interest due to their potential applications in topological quantum computing and in the realization of exotic quantum phases. These zero-energy quasiparticle excitations localize at the vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Takeshi Mizushima , Muneto Nitta

The recent realization of pristine Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in vortices of iron-based superconductors (FeSCs) provides a promising platform for long-sought-after fault-tolerant quantum computation. A large topological gap between the MZMs…

We propose a platform for braiding Majorana non-Abelian anyons based on a heterostructure between a $d$-wave high-$T_c$ superconductor and a quantum spin-Hall insulator. It has been recently shown that such a setup for a quantum spin-Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Matthew F. Lapa , Meng Cheng , Yuxuan Wang

We propose a hierarchical architecture for building "logical" Majorana zero modes using "physical" Majorana zero modes at the Y-junctions of a hexagonal network of semiconductor nanowires. Each Y-junction contains three "physical"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Zhi-Cheng Yang , Thomas Iadecola , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

After a decade of intense theoretical and experimental efforts, demonstrating braiding of Majorana modes remains an unsolved problem in condensed matter physics due to platform specific challenges. In this work, we propose topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Shiva T. Konakanchi , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Yong P. Chen , Pramey Upadhyaya , Leonid P. Rokhinson

We propose theoretically an effective scheme for braiding Majorana bound states by manipulating the point potential. The vortex pinning effect is carefully elucidated. This effect may be used to control the vortices and Majorana bound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-15 Hai-Dan Wu , Tao Zhou

Majorana quasi-particles may arise as zero-energy bound states in vortices on the surface of a topological insulator that is proximitized by a conventional superconductor. Such a system finds its natural realization in the iron-based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-24 Vedangi Pathak , Stephan Plugge , Marcel Franz

Adiabatic braiding of Majorana zero modes can be used for topologically protected quantum information processing. While extremely robust to many environmental perturbations, these systems are vulnerable to noise with high-frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Kyle Ritland , Armin Rahmani

The vortex of iron-based superconductors is emerging as a promising platform for Majorana zero mode, owing to a magic integration among intrinsic vortex winding, non-trivial band topology, strong electron-electron correlations, high-Tc…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-31 Lingyuan Kong , Hong Ding

One-dimensional topological superconductors are known to host Majorana zero modes at domain walls terminating the topological phase. Their nonabelian nature allows for processing quantum information by braiding operations which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Torsten Karzig , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

Majorana zero modes (MZMs), promising for topological quantum computation, are naturally hosted in vortices of two-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs). However, precise control and braiding of these vortex-bound MZMs remains a…

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

We demonstrate the successful simulation of $\sqrt{Z}$-, $\sqrt{X}$- and $X$-quantum gates using Majorana zero modes (MZMs) that emerge in magnetic vortices located in topological superconductors. We compute the transition probabilities and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Maxwell Buss , Jasmin Bedow , Prashant Gupta , Dirk K. Morr

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems that have been proposed as building blocks of fault-tolerant quantum computers [1]. They are expected to exhibit non-Abelian particle statistics, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 S. M. Albrecht , A. P. Higginbotham , M. Madsen , F. Kuemmeth , T. S. Jespersen , J. Nygård , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus

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