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Realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the laboratory is one of the major goals in condensed matter physics. We review the current status of this rapidly-developing field, focusing on semiconductor-superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-11 R. M. Lutchyn , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven , P. Krogstrup , C. M. Marcus , Y. Oreg

Majorana fermions are long-sought exotic particles that are their own antiparticles. Here we propose to utilize superconducting circuits to construct two superconducting-qubit arrays where Majorana modes can occur. A so-called Majorana…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-23 J. Q. You , Z. D. Wang , Wenxian Zhang , Franco Nori

Experimentally realizable quantum computers are rapidly approaching the threshold of quantum supremacy. Quantum Hamiltonian simulation promises to be one of the first practical applications for which such a device could demonstrate an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Rich Rines , Kevin Obenland , Isaac Chuang

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

An important approach to the fault-tolerant quantum computation is protecting the logical information using the quantum error correction. Usually, the logical information is in the form of logical qubits, which are encoded in physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Ying Li

Complex quantum networks are not only hard to establish, but also difficult to simulate due to the exponentially growing state space and noise-induced imperfections. In this work, we propose an alternative approach that leverage quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ferran Riera-Sàbat , Jorge Miguel-Ramiro , Wolfgang Dür

In condensed matter physics, non-Abelian statistics for Majorana zero modes (or Majorana Fermions) is very important, really exotic, and completely robust. The race for searching Majorana zero modes and verifying the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Cui-Xian Guo , Meng-Lei Yang , Heng-Wang , Wu-Ming Liu , Su-Peng Kou

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

Efficiently estimating fermionic Hamiltonian expectation values is vital for simulating various physical systems. Classical shadow (CS) algorithms offer a solution by reducing the number of quantum state copies needed, but noise in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Bujiao Wu , Dax Enshan Koh

Quantum simulation represents the most promising quantum application to demonstrate quantum advantage on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers, yet available quantum simulation algorithms are prone to errors and thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Shin Sun , Li-Chai Shih , Yuan-Chung Cheng

The list of quantum mechanical systems with non-Abelian statistics has recently been expanded by including generic spin-orbit-coupled semiconductors e.g., InAs) in proximity to a s-wave superconductor. Demonstration of the anyonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-24 Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

We propose to use the recently predicted two-dimensional `weak-pairing' $p_x + ip_y$ superfluid state of fermionic cold atoms as a platform for topological quantum computation. In the core of a vortex, this state supports a zero-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma , Chetan Nayak , Chuanwei Zhang , P. Zoller

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

Quantum simulations before fault tolerance suffer from the intrinsic noise present in quantum computers. In this regime, extracting meaningful results greatly benefits from stability against that noise. This stability, defined as an error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Guillermo González-García , Filippo Maria Gambetta , Raul A. Santos

We propose a closed form for the statistical distribution of non-interacting Majorana fermions at low temperature. Majorana particles often appear in the contemporary many-body literature in the Kitaev, Fu-Kane, or Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-09 Joshuah T. Heath , Kevin S. Bedell

Quantum information processing tasks require exotic quantum states as a prerequisite. They are usually prepared with many different methods tailored to the specific resource state. Here we provide a versatile unified state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Tanjung Krisnanda , Sanjib Ghosh , Tomasz Paterek , Timothy C. H. Liew

Quantum computers are expected to give major speed-ups for the simulation of quantum systems. In these conference proceedings, we discuss quantum algorithms for the simulation of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Mathieu Pellen

Digital quantum computers are potentially an ideal platform for simulating open quantum many-body systems beyond the digital classical computers. Many studies have focused on obtaining the ground state by simulating time dynamics or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Minjae Jo , Myungshik Kim

Executing quantum algorithms using Majorana zero modes - a major milestone for the field of topological quantum computing - requires a platform that can be scaled to large quantum registers, can be controlled in real time and space, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jasmin Bedow , Dirk K. Morr

We outline a proposal to test quantum mechanics in the high-complexity regime using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. The procedure involves simulating a non-Clifford random circuit, followed by its inverse, and then checking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Kevin Slagle