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Floquet topological matter has emerged as one exciting platform to explore rich physics and game-changing applications of topological phases. As one remarkable and recently discovered feature of Floquet symmetry protected topological (SPT)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

We propose a physical realization of a commuting Hamiltonian of interacting Majorana fermions realizing $Z_{2}$ topological order, using an array of Josephson-coupled topological superconductor islands. The required multi-body interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Sagar Vijay , Liang Fu

Majorana bound states are interesting candidates for applications in topological quantum computation. Low energy models allowing to grasp their properties are hence conceptually important. The usual scenario in these models is that two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 N. Traverso Ziani , C. Fleckenstein , L. Vigliotti , B. Trauzettel , M. Sassetti

We provide a current perspective on the rapidly developing field of Majorana zero modes in solid state systems. We emphasize the theoretical prediction, experimental realization, and potential use of Majorana zero modes in future…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-09 Sankar Das Sarma , Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak

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

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

We investigate a hybrid quantum system involving spin qubits, based on the spins of electrons confined in quantum dots, and topological qubits, based on Majorana fermions. In such a system, gated control of the charge on the quantum dots…

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

We present a new scheme for Majorana modes in systems with nonsymmporhic-symmetry-protected band degeneracy. We reveal that when the gapless fermionic excitations are encoded with conventional superconductivity and magnetism, which can be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhongyi Zhang , Zhenfei Wu , Chen Fang , Fu-chun Zhang , Jiangping Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Shengshan Qin

This is a colloquium-style introduction to the midgap excitations in superconductors known as Majorana fermions. These elusive particles, equal to their own antiparticle, may or may not exist in Nature as elementary building blocks, but in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 C. W. J. Beenakker

Because Majorana zero modes store quantum information non-locally, they are protected from noise, and have been proposed as a building block for a quantum computer. We show how to use the same protection from noise to implement universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 T. E. O'Brien , P. Rożek , A. R. Akhmerov

Realizing Majorana modes in topological superconductors, i.e., the condensed-matter counterpart of Majorana fermions in particle physics, may lead to a major advance in the field of topologically-protected quantum computation. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

Substantial experimental investigation has provided evidence for spin-triplet pairing in diverse classes of materials and in a variety of artificial heterostructures. A fundamental challenge in actual experiments is how to manipulate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-14 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Panagiotis Kotetes

The realization and manipulation of Majorana zero modes is a key step in achieving topological quantum computation. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of Majorana corner states in a superconductor-insulators-superconductor vertical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-17 Cheng-Ming Miao , Yu-Hao Wan , Ying-Tao Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

We introduce an exactly solvable model of interacting Majorana fermions realizing $Z_{2}$ topological order with a $Z_{2}$ fermion parity grading and lattice symmetries permuting the three fundamental anyon types. We propose a concrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sagar Vijay , Timothy H. Hsieh , Liang Fu

We propose a system of coupled quantum dots in proximity to a superconductor and driven by separate ac potentials to realize and detect Floquet Majorana fermions. We show that the appearance of Floquet Majorana fermions can be finely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Yantao Li , Arijit Kundu , Fan Zhong , Babak Seradjeh

Obeying non-Abelian statistics, Majorana fermions holds a promise to implement fault-tolerant quantum computing. It was found that Majorana fermions can be simulated by the zero-energy excitation in a nanowire with strong spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ming-Jian Gao , Yu-Peng Ma , Jun-Hong An

We theoretically propose a set of universal quantum gates acting on a hybrid qubit formed by coupling a quantum dot spin qubit and Majorana fermion qubit. First, we consider a quantum dot tunnel-coupled to two topological superconductors.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Silas Hoffman , Constantin Schrade , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Motivated by recent experimental progress towards the measurement and manipulation of Majorana fermions with superconducting circuits, we propose a device interfacing Majorana fermions with circuit quantum electrodynamics. The proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Clemens Müller , Jérôme Bourassa , Alexandre Blais

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

The prospects for realizing a topological quantum computer have brightened since the apparent detection of Majorana fermions at the ends of semiconducting nanowires. These Majorana zero-modes persist in the presence of the strong disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Sonika Johri , Rahul Nandkishore