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Zero--energy Majorana quasiparticles can be induced at the edge of a low dimensional systems. Non--Abelian statistics of this state makes it a good candidate for the realization of quantum computing. From the practical point of view, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Aksel Kobiałka , Andrzej Ptok

We investigate the minimal Kitaev spin liquid on a single hexagon with three Ising-type exchange interactions proportional to $K_{x}$, $K_{y}$ and $K_{z}$. In the limit $K_{z}=0$, we find 32-fold zero-energy states, leading to 10 free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-03 Motohiko Ezawa

Nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems is challenging for classical computing, providing opportunities for demonstrating practical quantum computational advantage with analogue quantum simulators. Owing to the intimate…

Topological quantum computing promises intrinsic fault tolerance by encoding quantum information in non-Abelian anyons, where quantum gates are implemented via braiding. While braiding operations are robust against local perturbations, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Themba Hodge , Philipp Frey , Stephan Rachel

We propose a neural-network variational quantum algorithm to simulate the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. Based on a modified restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) wavefunction ansatz, the proposed algorithm can be efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Chee-Kong Lee , Pranay Patil , Shengyu Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh

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

We study the stability of the topological quantum computation proposals involving Majorana fermions against thermal fluctuations. We use a minimal realistic model of a spinless px+ipy superconductor and consider effect of excited midgap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-25 Meng Cheng , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

Motivated by recent experimental progress in realizing Majorana zero modes (MZMs) using quantum dot systems, we investigate the diabatic errors associated with the movement of those MZMs. The movement is achieved by tuning time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Bradraj Pandey , Gaurav Kumar Gupta , Gonzalo Alvarez , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) emerging at the edges of topological superconducting wires have been proposed as the building blocks of novel, fault-tolerant quantum computation protocols. Coherent detection and manipulation of such states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Jesus D. Cifuentes , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

The successful test of non-Abelian statistics not only serves as a milestone in fundamental physics but also provides a quantum gate operation in topological quantum computation. An accurate and efficient readout scheme of a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Chun-Xiao Liu , Dong E. Liu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Ching-Kai Chiu

We provide a conceptual framework for developing a scalable topological quantum computer. It relies on forming Majorana fermions using circular electronic gates in two-dimensional p-wave superconductors. The gates allow the precise control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Ji Ung Lee

A versatile control of magnetic systems, widely used to store information, can also enable manipulating Majorana bounds states (MBS) and implementing fault-tolerant quantum information processing. The proposed platform relies on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-23 Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Andrew D. Kent , Geoffrey L. Fatin , Benedikt Scharf , Igor Žutić

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

Majorana zero modes are expected to arise in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems, with potential topological quantum computing applications. One limitation of this approach is the need for a relatively high external magnetic field…

Exchanging the positions of two non-Abelian anyons transforms between many-body wavefunctions within a degenerate ground-state manifold. This behavior is fundamentally distinct from fermions, bosons and Abelian anyons. Recently, quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Sebastian Miles , Francesco Zatelli , A. Mert Bozkurt , Michael Wimmer , Chun-Xiao Liu

Majorana fermions, quantum particles with non-Abelian exchange statistics, are not only of fundamental importance, but also building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Although certain experimental breakthroughs for observing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Rui-Lin Chu , Gui-Bin Liu , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Di Xiao , Chuanwei Zhang

For the past decade, Majorana quasiparticles have become one of the hot topics in condensed matter research. Besides the fundamental interest in the realization of particles being their own antiparticles, going back to basic concepts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Stephan Rachel , Roland Wiesendanger

Topological superconductors can host Majorana quasiparticles which supersede the fermion/boson dichotomy and offer a pathway to fault tolerant quantum computation. In one-dimensional systems zero-energy Majorana states are bound to the ends…

We digitally simulate quantum many-body dynamics in emergent curved backgrounds using 80 superconducting qubits on IBM Heron processors. By engineering spatially varying couplings in the spin-$\frac12$ XXZ chain, consistent with the…

Abrikosov vortices in Fe-based superconductors are a promising platform for hosting Majorana zero modes. Their adiabatic exchange is a key ingredient for Majorana-based quantum computing. However, the adiabatic braiding process can not be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-27 Thore Posske , Ching-Kai Chiu , Michael Thorwart