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We study the decoherence of a collection of Majorana zero modes weakly coupled to a gapless reservoir of non-interacting fermions. Using the Born-Markov approximation, we derive a Lindblad master equation for the dissipative dynamics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Sauri Bhattacharyya , Marco Grilli , Bernard van Heck

Localized Majorana fermions emerge in many topologically ordered systems and exhibit exchange statistics of Ising anyons. This enables noise-resistant implementation of a limited set of operations by braiding and fusing Majorana fermions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Earl T. Campbell , Matty J. Hoban , Jens Eisert

We study the interplay between measurement-induced dynamics and conditional unitary evolution in quantum systems. We numerically and analytically investigate commuting random measurement and feedforward (MFF) processes, and find a sharp…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Alireza Seif , Yu-Xin Wang , Ramis Movassagh , Aashish A. Clerk

We establish a unified framework for Majorana-based fault-tolerant quantum computation with Majorana surface codes and Majorana color codes. All logical Clifford gates are implemented with zero time overhead. This is done by introducing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Daniel Litinski , Felix von Oppen

Interspersing unitary dynamics with local measurements results in measurement-induced phases and transitions in many-body quantum systems. When the evolution is driven by a local Hamiltonian, two types of transitions have been observed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Bo Xing , Xhek Turkeshi , Marco Schiró , Rosario Fazio , Dario Poletti

The Wannier-Stark localization dynamically alters the entanglement behavior of non-Hermitian free fermions. Utilizing the single-particle correlation matrix technique, we analyze the effective Hamiltonian of these fermions with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Han-Ze Li , Minhui Wan , Jian-Xin Zhong

We study the symmetries of closed Majorana chains in 1+1d, including the translation, fermion parity, spatial parity, and time-reversal symmetries. The algebra of the symmetry operators is realized projectively on the Hilbert space,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-06 Nathan Seiberg , Shu-Heng Shao

We study operator entanglement measures of the unitary evolution operators of (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), aiming to uncover their scrambling and chaotic behaviors. In particular, we compute the bi-partite and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Laimei Nie , Masahiro Nozaki , Shinsei Ryu , Mao Tian Tan

Studies of random unitary circuits have shown that the calculation of Renyi entropies of entanglement can be mapped to classical statistical mechanics problems in spacetime. In this paper, we develop an analogous spacetime picture of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Tobias Swann , Denis Bernard , Adam Nahum

We show the presence of Majorana edge modes in an interacting fermionic ladder with spin in a number conserved setting. The interchain single particle hopping is suppressed and only a pair hopping is present between the different chains of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-23 Franco T. Lisandrini , Corinna Kollath

We numerically study the quantum phase transitions and the stability of Majorana zero modes in a generalized Kitaev model in one dimension when the chemical potential is periodically modulating in space. By using the exact diagonalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-17 Takumi Ohta , Keisuke Totsuka

Simulating the time dynamics of an observable under Hamiltonian evolution is one of the most promising candidates for quantum advantage as we do not expect efficient classical algorithms for this problem except in restricted settings. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Giorgio Facelli , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

We consider the effect of projective measurements on the quench dynamics of the bipartite entanglement entropy in one dimensional free fermionic systems. In our protocol, we consider projective measurements of a $U(1)$ conserved charge, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Riccardo Travaglino , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

The time evolution of topological systems is an active area of interest due to their expected applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing. Here, we analyze the dynamics of a noninteracting spinless fermion chain in its topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-21 Thomas L. M. Lane , Miklós Horváth , Kristian Patrick

We study a model of fermions on the square lattice at half-filling coupled to an Ising gauge theory, that was recently shown in Monte Carlo simulations to exhibit $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological order and massless Dirac fermion excitations. On…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-27 Snir Gazit , Fakher F. Assaad , Subir Sachdev , Ashvin Vishwanath , Chong Wang

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…

Topological band theory has been studied for free fermions for decades, and one of the most profound physical results is the bulk-boundary correspondence. Recently a focus in topological physics is extending topological classification to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Liang Mao , Hui Zhai , Fan Yang

We consider the discrete time dynamics of an ensemble of fermionic quantum walkers moving on a finite discrete sample, interacting with a reservoir of infinitely many quantum particles on the one dimensional lattice. The reservoir is given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Eman Hamza , Alain Joye

The zero-energy bound states at the edges or vortex cores of chiral p-wave superconductors should behave like majorana fermions. We introduce a model Hamiltonian that describes the tunnelling process when electrons are injected into such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-06-17 C. J. Bolech , Eugene Demler

We investigate entanglement dynamics in continuously monitored open quantum systems featuring current-carrying non-equilibrium states. We focus on a prototypical one-dimensional model of boundary-driven non-interacting fermions with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-12 Xhek Turkeshi , Lorenzo Piroli , Marco Schirò