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Majorana-based quantum computing seeks to use the non-local nature of Majorana zero modes to store and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected way. While noise is anticipated to be significantly suppressed in such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Christina Knapp , Michael Beverland , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Torsten Karzig

Known Majorana fermions models are considered as promising ones for the purposes of quantum computing robust to decoherence. One of the most expecting but unachieved goals is an effective control for braiding of Majoranas. Another one is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Halina V. Grushevskaya , George Krylov

In unsupervised learning, the training data for deep learning does not come with any labels, thus forcing the algorithm to discover hidden patterns in the data for discerning useful information. This, in principle, could be a powerful tool…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-17 Jacob Taylor , Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

We study the non-abelian statistics characterizing systems where counter-propagating gapless modes on the edges of fractional quantum Hall states are gapped by proximity-coupling to superconductors and ferromagnets. The most transparent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 Netanel H. Lindner , Erez Berg , Gil Refael , Ady Stern

Defects between gapped boundaries provide a possible physical realization of projective non-abelian braid statistics. A notable example is the projective Majorana/parafermion braid statistics of boundary defects in fractional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Iris Cong , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

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

Demonstration of a nontrivial result of quasiparticle exchange (or braiding) is usually considered the definitive proof of a topological phase with nonabelian excitations, such as Majorana bound states (MBSs). However, in finite systems…

Topological qubits composed of unpaired Majorana zero-modes are under intense experimental and theoretical scrutiny in efforts to realize practical quantum computation schemes. In this work, we show the minimum four \textit{unpaired}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-19 Adipta Pal , Joe H. Winter , Ashley M. Cook

Topologically-ordered quantum states with Abelian excitations can host defects that obey effective non-Abelian statistics, in principle allowing for quantum information processing via defect braiding. These extrinsic defects (or twists) are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Paul Kairys , Phillip C. Lotshaw

The realization and manipulation of Majorana zero modes have drawn significant attention for their crucial role in enabling topological quantum computation. Conventional approaches to the braiding of Majorana zero modes rely on adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Fei Yu , P. Z. Zhao , Jiangbin Gong

The easily accessible experimental signatures of Majorana modes are ambiguous and only probe topology indirectly: for example, quasi-Majorana states mimic most properties of Majoranas. Establishing a correspondence between an experiment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Isidora Araya Day , Antonio L. R. Manesco , Michael Wimmer , Anton R. Akhmerov

Topological materials are of great interest for applications in quantum computing, providing intrinsic robustness against environmental noises. A popular direction is to look for Majorana modes in integrated systems interfaced with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Zhigang Song

Qubits in topological quantum computation are built from non-Abelian anyons. Adiabatic braiding of anyons is exploited as topologically protected logical gate operations. Thus, the adiabaticity upon which the notion of quantum statistics is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-06 Meng Cheng , Victor Galitski , Sankar Das Sarma

A demonstration of the theoretically predicted non-abelian properties of Majorana bound states (MBSs) would constitute a definite proof of a topological superconducting phase. Alongside the nontrivial braiding statistics, the fusion rules…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 R. Seoane Souto , M. Leijnse

Many widely studied graphical models with latent variables lead to nontrivial constraints on the distribution of the observed variables. Inspired by the Bell inequalities in quantum mechanics, we refer to any linear inequality whose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-21 Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Topological quantum computation by way of braiding of Majorana fermions is not universal quantum computation. There are several attempts to make universal quantum computation by introducing some additional quantum gates or quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Motohiko Ezawa

We develop the complete theory for non-Abelian braiding of Majorana Kramers' pairs (MKPs) in time-reversal (TR) invariant topological superconductors. By introducing an effective Hamiltonian approach to describe the braiding of MKPs, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-20 Pin Gao , Ying-Ping He , Xiong-Jun Liu

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

Demonstration of Majorana non-Abelian properties is a major challenge in the field of topological superconductivity. In this work, we propose a minimal device and protocol for testing non-Abelian properties using charge-transfer operations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Svend Krøjer , Rubén Seoane Souto , Karsten Flensberg

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