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Majorana bound states have been a focus of condensed matter research for their potential applications in topological quantum computation. Here we utilize two charge-qubit arrays to explicitly simulate a DIII class one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Ting Mao , Z. D. Wang

Majorana-based quantum computation in nanowires and neutral atoms has gained prominence as a promising platform to encode qubits and protect them against noise. In order to run computations reliably on such devices, a fully fault-tolerant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Maryam Mudassar , Alexander Schuckert , Daniel Gottesman

To observe Majorana bound states, and especially to use them as a qubit, requires careful optimization of competing quality metrics. We systematically compare Majorana quality in proximitized semiconductor nanowires and quantum dot chains.…

Among the major approaches that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-based platform has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits which store quantum information in a topologically-protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Karsten Flensberg , Felix von Oppen , Ady Stern

Reading out the parity degree of freedom of Majorana bound states is key to demonstrating their nonabelian exchange properties. Here, we present a low-energy model describing localized edge states in a two-arm device. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Jens Schulenborg , Svend Krøjer , Michele Burrello , Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

One of the main challenges for quantum computation is that while the number of gates required to perform a non-trivial quantum computation may be very large, decoherence and errors in realistic quantum architectures limit the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Alan Tran , Alex Bocharov , Bela Bauer , Parsa Bonderson

We propose a scheme for extracting entangled charge qubits from quantum-dot chains that support zero-energy edge modes. The edge mode is composed of Majorana fermions localized at the ends of each chain. The qubit, logically encoded in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Li Dai , Watson Kuo , Ming-Chiang Chung

We propose a setup to measure the lifetime of the parity of a pair of Majorana bound states. The proposed experiment has one edge Majorana state tunnel coupled to a quantum dot, which in turn is coupled to a metallic electrode. When the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Martin Leijnse , Karsten Flensberg

Single-shot qubit readout typically combines high readout contrast with long-lived readout signals, leading to large signal-to-noise ratios and high readout fidelities. In recent years, it has been demonstrated that both readout contrast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Benjamin D'Anjou , William A. Coish

We theoretically analyze phonon-assisted tunneling transport in a quantum dot side connected to a Majorana bound state in a topological superconducting nanowire. We investigate the behavior of the current through the dot, for a range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Levente Máthé , Zoltán Kovács-Krausz , Ioan Botiz , Ioan Grosu , Khadija El Anouz , Abderrahim El Allati , Liviu P. Zârbo

Dispersive sensing is a powerful technique that enables scalable and high-fidelity readout of solid-state quantum bits. In particular, gate-based dispersive sensing has been proposed as the readout mechanism for future topological qubits,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Damaz de Jong , Jasper van Veen , Luca Binci , Amrita Singh , Peter Krogstrup , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Wolfgang Pfaff , John D. Watson

Reading out Majorana bound states (MBSs) is essential both to verify their non-Abelian property and to realize topological quantum computation. Here, we construct a protocol to measure the parity of two MBSs in a Majorana island coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Dong E. Liu

Qubit readout schemes often deviate from ideal projective measurements, introducing critical issues that limit quantum computing performance. In this work, we model charge-sensing-based readout for semiconductor spin qubits in double…

We introduce a new hybrid qubit consisting of a Majorana qubit interacting with a transmon longitudinally coupled to a resonator. To do so, we equip the longitudinal transmon qubit with topological quasiparticles, supported by an array of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Alec Dinerstein , Caroline S. Gorham , Eugene F. Dumitrescu

Quantum simulation, the study of strongly correlated quantum matter using synthetic quantum systems, has been the most successful application of quantum computers to date. It often requires determining observables with high precision, for…

The Kitaev chain can be engineered within a quantum dot-superconductor array, hosting Majorana zero modes at fine-tuned sweet spots. In this work, we propose and simulate the occurrence of Rabi and Ramsey oscillations to feasibly construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma , Chun-Xiao Liu

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

We investigate the non-Markovian characteristics in continuous measurement of a charge qubit by a quantum point contact. The backflow of information from the reservoir to the system in the non-Markovian domain gives rise to strikingly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 JunYan Luo , HuJun Jiao , Xiao-Li Lang , BiTao Xiong , Xiao-Ling He

Realizing Majorana bound states (MBSs) in short, well-controllable chains of coupled quantum dots sidesteps the problem of disorder, but requires fine-tuning and does not give the true topological protection inherent to long chains. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Viktor Svensson , Martin Leijnse

Quantum measurements are a fundamental component of quantum computing. However, on modern-day quantum computers, measurements can be more error prone than quantum gates, and are susceptible to non-unital errors as well as non-local…