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Certain physical systems that one might consider for fault-tolerant quantum computing where qubits do not readily interact, for instance photons, are better suited for measurement-based quantum-computational protocols. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Benjamin J. Brown , Sam Roberts

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

Majorana bound states (MBSs), with their non-Abelian statistics and topological protection, are key candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, their unambiguous identification in solid-state systems remains a fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Zi-Wei Li , Jiaojiao Chen , Wei Xiong , Xiao Xue , Zeng-Zhao Li

Quantum phase transitions are a cornerstone of many-body physics at low temperatures but have remained elusive far from equilibrium. Driven open quantum systems -- a prominent non-equilibrium platform where coherent dynamics competes with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-30 Naushad A. Kamar , Mostafa Ali , Mohammad Maghrebi

Zero-energy Majorana bound states in superconductors have been proposed to be potential building blocks of a topological quantum computer, because quantum information can be encoded in the fermion occupation of a pair of {\it spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Liang Fu

We present a scheme to realize a topological superconducting system supporting Majorana zero modes, within a number-conserving framework suitable for optical-lattice experiments. Our approach builds on the engineering of pair-hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Anais Defossez , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Nathan Goldman

We relax one of the requirements for topological quantum computation with Majorana fermions. Topological quantum computation was discussed so far as manipulation of the wave function within degenerate many body ground state. The simplest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-12 A. R. Akhmerov

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

We present designs for scalable quantum computers composed of qubits encoded in aggregates of four or more Majorana zero modes, realized at the ends of topological superconducting wire segments that are assembled into superconducting…

Preparing correlated quantum states is essential for emerging technologies, but remains challenging in many-body systems. Here we propose a dissipative protocol that engineers nonreciprocal, energy-selective transitions to steer dipolar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Mingsheng Tian , Zhen Bi , Thomas Iadecola , Bryce Gadway

Universal fractionalization of quantum transport characteristics in Majorana quantum dot devices is expected to emerge for well separated Majorana bound states. We show that the Majorana universality of the differential shot noise $\partial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Sergey Smirnov

Dark and subradiant states have emerged as a promising resource for stabilizing open quantum batteries against dissipation, but existing studies are largely limited to qubit ensembles and symmetry-based constructions. Here we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yiğit Perçin , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Entangled states are a key resource in fundamental quantum physics, quantum cryp-tography, and quantum computation [1].To date, controlled unitary interactions applied to a quantum system, so-called "quantum gates", have been the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 Y. Lin , J. P. Gaebler , F. Reiter , T. R. Tan , R. Bowler , A. S. Sørensen , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

Detection and manipulation of excitations with non-Abelian statistics, such as Majorana fermions, are essential for creating topological quantum computers. To this end, we show the connection between the existence of such localized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-15 Oles Shtanko , Ramis Movassagh

Dark states are stationary states of a dissipative, Lindblad-type time evolution with zero von Neumann entropy, therefore representing examples of pure, steady quantum states. Non-equilibrium dynamics featuring a dark state recently gained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-02 Dietrich Roscher , Sebastian Diehl , Michael Buchhold

We show that nonzero drag current in a double quantum-dot system, consisting of a biased drive dot and an unbiased passive dot coupled capacitively, can be generated by a Majorana bound state located at one of the leads connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xiao Xiao , Jian-Xin Zhu

Holographic quantum error-correcting codes have been proposed as toy models that describe key aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this work, we introduce a versatile framework of Majorana dimers capturing the intersection of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-12 Alexander Jahn , Marek Gluza , Fernando Pastawski , Jens Eisert

The idea of topological quantum computation is to build powerful and robust quantum computers with certain macroscopic quantum states of matter called topologically ordered states. These systems have degenerate ground states that can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-25 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Liang Qi

A discrete-time method for solving problems in optimal quantum control is presented. Controlling the time discretized markovian dynamics of a quantum system can be reduced to a Markov-decision process. We demonstrate this method in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Jon R. Grice , David A. Meyer

In this paper an extended scalability condition is proposed to achieve the ground-state stability for a class of multipartite quantum systems which may involve two-body interactions, and an explicit procedure to construct the dissipation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Yu Pan , Thien Nguyen