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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

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are the most intensively studied non-Abelian anyons. The Dirac fermion zero modes in topological insulators, which are symmetry-protected doubling of MZMs under fermion number conservation, offer an alternative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Tianyu Huang , Rui Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Xiong-Jun Liu , X. C. Xie , Yijia Wu

Topological quantum computation provides an elegant way around decoherence, as one encodes quantum information in a non-local fashion that the environment finds difficult to corrupt. Here we establish that one of the key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jason Alicea , Yuval Oreg , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Superconductors hosting long-sought excitations called Majorana fermions may be ultimately used as qubits of fault-tolerant topological quantum computers. A crucial challenge toward the topological quantum computer is to implement quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Cássio Sozinho Amorim , Kazuto Ebihara , Ai Yamakage , Yukio Tanaka , Masatoshi Sato

We study the possibility to realize Majorana zero mode that's robust and may be easily manipulated for braiding in quantum computing in the ground state of the Kitaev model in this work. To achieve this we first apply a uniform [111]…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-13 Lu Yang , Jia-Xing Zhang , Shuang Liang , Wei Chen , Qiang-Hua Wang

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are promising candidates for topologically-protected quantum computing hardware, however their large-scale use will likely require quantum error correction. Majorana surface codes (MSCs) have been proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Campbell McLauchlan , Benjamin Béri

Majorana zero modes are quasiparticles that hold promise as building blocks for topological quantum computing. However, the litmus test for their detection, the observation of exotic non-abelian statistics revealed by braiding, has so far…

We discuss a network of Kitaev wires coupled to several individually-tunable quantum dots as an extension of the recent experiments on a quantum dot coupled to a nanowire hosting Majorana zero modes [Deng et al. Science 354 1557 (2016) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Corneliu Malciu , Leonardo Mazza , Christophe Mora

Non-Abelian braiding is a key property of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) that can be utilized for topological quantum computation. However, the presence of trivial Andreev bound states (ABSs) in topological superconductors can hinder the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Yu Zhang , Yijia Wu , Jie Liu , X. C. Xie

Quantum gates built out of braid group elements form the building blocks of topological quantum computation. They have been extensively studied in $SU(2)_k$ quantum group theories, a rich source of examples of non-Abelian anyons such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Indrajit Jana , Filippo Montorsi , Pramod Padmanabhan , Diego Trancanelli

Topological quantum computation is an implementation of a quantum computer in a way that radically reduces decoherence. Topological qubits are encoded in the topological evolution of two-dimensional quasi-particles called anyons and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Mohamed Taha Rouabah

I point out that a possible minimal setting to realize Kitaev's proposal of a Topological Quantum Computation which offers topological protection from decoherence could in principle be realized by braided Majorana qubits. Majorana qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco Toppan

We investigate the transport properties of Majorana zero mode (MZM) and Majorana Kramers pair (MKP) in one-dimensional topological superconductors, respectively. An effective model is established for braiding of MZMs and MKPs. We employ the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Hongfa Pan , Zhengtian Li , Jinxiong Jia , Zhenhua Qiao

Current proposals for topological quantum computation (TQC) based on Majorana zero modes (MZM) have mostly been focused on coupled-wire architecture which can be challenging to implement experimentally. To explore alternative building…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Aidan Winblad , Hua Chen

We use magnetic flux-tubes to stabilize zero-energy modes in a lattice realization of a 2-dimensional superconductor from class D of classification table of topological condensed matter systems. The zero modes are exchanged by slowly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-25 Yifei Liu , Yingkai Liu , Emil Prodan

Color-code quantum computation seamlessly combines Majorana-based hardware with topological error correction. Specifically, as Clifford gates are transversal in two-dimensional color codes, they enable the use of the Majoranas' nonabelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Daniel Litinski , Felix von Oppen

To realize the braiding operations of Majorana zero mode in the vortex cores of a topological superconductor (TSC), a novel approach is proposed in this letter to replace the common tip (or tip-like) method. Instead of on top of the TSC…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-01 Hai-Yang Ma , Dandan Guan , Shiyong Wang , Yaoyi Li , Canhua Liu , Hao Zheng , Jin-Feng Jia

The idea of topological quantum computation (TQC) is to store and manipulate quantum information in an intrinsically fault-tolerant manner by utilizing the physics of topologically ordered phases of matter. Currently, one of the most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Maissam Barkeshli , Jay D. Sau

We review the topological quantum computation scheme of Das Sarma et al. from the perspective of the conformal field theory for the two-dimensional critical Ising model. This scheme originally used the monodromy properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lachezar S. Georgiev

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