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Surface codes offer a very promising avenue towards fault-tolerant quantum computation. We argue that two-dimensional interacting networks of Majorana bound states in topological superconductor/semiconductor heterostructures hold several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 S. Plugge , L. A. Landau , E. Sela , A. Altland , K. Flensberg , R. Egger

Stirring of fluid with moving rods is necessary in many practical applications to achieve homogeneity. These rods are topological obstacles that force stretching of fluid elements. The resulting stretching and folding is commonly observed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Matthew D. Finn

The braiding operations of quantum states have attracted substantial attention due to their great potential for realizing topological quantum computations. In this paper, we show that a three-fold degenerate eigen subspace can be obtained…

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

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

Interplay between superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field can lead to realisation of the topologically non--trivial states which in finite one dimensional nanowires are manifested by emergence of a pair of zero-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Aksel Kobiałka , Tadeusz Domański , Andrzej Ptok

Focusing on examples of Majorana zero modes on the corners of a two-dimensional lattice, we introduce a method to find parameter regions where the Majorana modes are perfectly localized on a single site. Such a limit allows us to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Prathyush P. Poduval , Thomas L. Schmidt , Andreas Haller

Robust edge states and non-Abelian excitations are the trademark of topological states of matter, with promising applications such as "topologically protected" quantum memory and computing. While so far topological phases have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Diehl , E. Rico , M. A. Baranov , P. Zoller

We show how to exchange (braid) Majorana fermions in a network of superconducting nanowires by control over Coulomb interactions rather than tunneling. Even though Majorana fermions are charge-neutral quasiparticles (equal to their own…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 B. van Heck , A. R. Akhmerov , F. Hassler , M. Burrello , C. W. J. Beenakker

Demonstration of non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound states (MBS) is crucial for the realization of fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Two-dimensional platforms such as planar Josephson junctions require an in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-08 Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

We propose a new driving scheme, when different parts of a system are driven with different, generally incommensurate, frequencies. Such driving provides a flexible handle to control various properties of the system and to obtain new types…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-01 Huanan Li , Tsampikos Kottos , Boris Shapiro

The non-Abelian braiding of Majorana fermions is one of the most promising operations providing a key building block for the realization of topological quantum computation. Recently, the chiral Majorana fermions were observed in a hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

We propose an experiment to directly probe the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana fermions by braiding them in an s-wave superfluid of ultracold atoms. We show different orders of braiding operations give orthogonal output states that can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-23 Shi-Liang Zhu , L. B. Shao , Z. D. Wang , Lu-Ming Duan

We present a new measurement-based scheme for performing braiding operations on Majorana zero modes and for detecting their non-Abelian statistics without moving or hybridizing them. In our scheme, the topological qubit encoded in any pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Sagar Vijay , Liang Fu

We consider two interacting quantum dots coupled by standard superconductors. We derive an effective Hamiltonian, and show that over a wide parameter range a degenerate ground state can be obtained. An exotique form of Majorana bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Thomas E. O'Brien , Anthony R. Wright , Menno Veldhorst

The possibility to observe and manipulate Majorana fermions as end states of one-dimensional topological superconductors has been actively discussed recently. In a quantum wire with strong spin-orbit coupling placed in proximity to a bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-31 Masaki Tezuka , Norio Kawakami

Majorana bound states (MBSs) are building blocks for topological quantum computing. They can be generated via the combination of electronic topology and superconductivity. To achieve logic operations via Majorana braiding, positional…

Chiral Majorana edge modes are theoretically proposed to perform braiding operations for the potential quantum computation. Here, we suggest a scheme to regulate trajectories of the chiral Majorana fermion based on a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Qing Yan , Yan-Feng Zhou , Qing-Feng Sun

We study theoretically a chain of precessing classical magnetic impurities in an $s$-wave superconductor. Utilizing a rotating wave description, we derive an effective Hamiltonian that describes the emergent Shiba band. We find that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Pascal Simon , Mircea Trif

We present evidence for the existence of Majorana edge states in a number conserving theory describing a system of spinless fermions on two wires that are coupled by a pair hopping. Our analysis is based on the combination of a qualitative…