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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

Braiding of Majorana zero modes provides a promising platform for quantum information processing, which is topologically protected against errors. Strictly speaking, however, the scheme relies on infinite braiding times as it utilizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Torsten Karzig , Armin Rahmani , Felix von Oppen , Gil Refael

To realize the braiding operations of Majorana zero mode in the vortex cores of a topological superconductor (TSC), a novel approach is proposed in this letter to replace the common tip (or tip-like) method. Instead of on top of the TSC…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-01 Hai-Yang Ma , Dandan Guan , Shiyong Wang , Yaoyi Li , Canhua Liu , Hao Zheng , Jin-Feng Jia

We propose and analyze a physical system capable of performing topological quantum computation with Majorana zero modes (MZM) in a one-dimensional topological superconductor (1DTS). One of the leading methods to realize quantum gates in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Marek Narozniak , Matthieu Dartiailh , Jonathan P. Dowling , Javad Shabani , Tim Byrnes

We propose a topological qubit in which braiding and readout are mediated by the $4\pi$ Majorana-Josephson effect. The braidonium device consists of three Majorana nanowires that come together to make a tri-junction; in order to control the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 John P. T. Stenger , Michael Hatridge , Sergey M. Frolov , David Pekker

Controlling the dynamics of Majorana fermions (MF) subject to time-varying driving fields is of fundamental importance for the practical realization of topological quantum computing. In this work we study how it is possible to dynamically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Perfetto

The non-Abelian statistics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are central to fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. Planar Josephson junctions provide a particularly versatile platform for realizing robust topological superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-29 Richang Huang , Yongliang Hu , Xianzhang Chen , Peng Yu , Siwei Tan , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Quantum information protected by the topology of the storage medium is expected to exhibit long coherence times. Another feature are topologically protected gates generated through braiding of Majorana bound states. However, braiding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Stephan Plugge , Asbjørn Rasmussen , Reinhold Egger , Karsten Flensberg

Majorana zero modes in superconductor-nanowire hybrid structures are a promising candidate for topologically protected qubits with the potential to be used in scalable structures. Currently, disorder in such Majorana wires is a major…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Matthias Thamm , Bernd Rosenow

Exchanging the positions of two non-Abelian anyons transforms between many-body wavefunctions within a degenerate ground-state manifold. This behavior is fundamentally distinct from fermions, bosons and Abelian anyons. Recently, quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Sebastian Miles , Francesco Zatelli , A. Mert Bozkurt , Michael Wimmer , Chun-Xiao Liu

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

Motivated by the prospect of attaining Majorana modes at the ends of nanowires, we analyze interacting Majorana systems on general networks and lattices in an arbitrary number of dimensions, and derive various universal spin duals. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Zohar Nussinov , Gerardo Ortiz , Emilio Cobanera

The boundary of topological superconductors might lead to the appearance of Majorana edge modes, whose non-trivial exchange statistics can be used for topological quantum computing. In branched nanowire networks one can exchange Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 C. Tutschku , R. W. Reinthaler , C. Lei , A. H. MacDonald , E. M. Hankiewicz

One promising avenue to study one-dimensional ($1$D) topological phases is to realize them in synthetic materials such as cold atomic gases. Intriguingly, it is possible to realize Majorana boundary modes in a $1$D number-conserving system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-17 Chun Chen , Wei Yan , C. S. Ting , Yan Chen , F. J. Burnell

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

Time-quasiperiodic Majoranas are generalizations of Floquet Majoranas in time-quasiperiodic superconducting systems. We show that in a system driven at $d$ mutually irrational frequencies, there are up to $2^d$ types of such Majoranas,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Yang Peng , Gil Refael

In this paper we present a hybrid scheme for topological quantum computation in a system of cold atoms trapped in an atomic lattice. A topological qubit subspace is defined using Majorana fermions which emerge in a network of atomic Kitaev…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 C. Laflamme , M. A. Baranov , P. Zoller , C. V. Kraus

In this study, the problem of strong Coulomb interactions in topological superconducting wire is analyzed by means of the density-matrix-renormalization-group (DMRG) approach. To analyze properties of edge states in the BDI-class structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 S. V. Aksenov , A. O. Zlotnikov , M. S. Shustin

Realizing Majorana modes (MMs) in condensed-matter systems is of vast experimental and theoretical interests, and some signatures of MMs have been measured already. To facilitate future experimental observations and to explore further…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Qing-Jun Tong , Jun-Hong An , Jiangbin Gong , Hong-Gang Luo , C. H. Oh

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