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We demonstrate how to directly study non-Abelian statistics for a wide class of exactly solvable many-body quantum systems. By employing exact eigenstates to simulate the adiabatic transport of a model's quasiparticles, the resulting Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Ville Lahtinen , Jiannis K. Pachos

The search for Majorana excitations has seen tremendous efforts in recent years, ultimately aiming for their individual controllability in future topological quantum computers. A promising framework to realize such exotic Majorana fermions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-28 Felix A. Palm , Cécile Repellin , Nathan Goldman , Fabian Grusdt

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

In this paper, we report on the study of Abelian and non-Abelian statistics through Fabry-Perot interferometry of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems. Our detection of phase slips in quantum interference experiments demonstrates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Sanghun An , P. Jiang , H. Choi , W. Kang , S. H. Simon , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Qubits are neither fermions nor bosons. A Fock space description of qubits leads to a mapping from qubits to parafermions: particles with a hybrid boson-fermion quantum statistics. We study this mapping in detail, and use it to provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. -A. Wu , D. A. Lidar

Realizations of Majorana fermions in solid state materials have attracted great interests recently in connection to topological order and quantum information processing. We propose a novel way to create Majorana fermions in superconductors.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-04 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ziqiang Wang

Among non-Hermitian systems, pseudo-Hermitian phases represent a special class of physical models characterized by real energy spectra and by the absence of non-Hermitian skin effects. Here, we show that several pseudo-Hermitian phases in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Yan-Qing Zhu , Wen Zheng , Shi-Liang Zhu , Giandomenico Palumbo

We propose an elegant formulation of parafermionic algebra and parasupersymmetry of arbitrary order in quantum many-body systems without recourse to any specific matrix representation of parafermionic operators and any kind of deformed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Toshiaki Tanaka

Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum operations which could in principle significantly reduce qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu , Michael Wimmer , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

It is shown that certain fractionally-charged quasiparticles can be modeled on \(D-\)dimensional lattices in terms of unconventional yet simple Fock algebras of creation and annihilation operators. These unconventional Fock algebras are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-23 Emilio Cobanera

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

Defects between gapped boundaries provide a possible physical realization of projective non-abelian braid statistics. A notable example is the projective Majorana/parafermion braid statistics of boundary defects in fractional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Iris Cong , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

We investigate a class of conformal Non-Abelian-Toda models representing a noncompact $SL(2,R)/U(1)$ parafermionions (PF) interacting with a specific abelian Toda theories and having a global U(1) symmetry. A systematic derivation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Gomes , G. M. Sotkov , A. H. Zimerman

Majorana-based quantum computation seeks to encode information non-locally in pairs of Majorana zero modes, thereby isolating qubit states from a local noisy environment. In addition to long coherence times, the attractiveness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Christina Knapp , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Roman M. Lutchyn

We study a Majorana-carrying quantum wire, driven into a trivial phase by breaking the spatial inversion symmetry with a tilted external magnetic field. Interestingly, we predict that a supercurrent applied in the proximate superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Xiong-Jun Liu , Alejandro M. Lobos

Braiding of non-Abelian Majorana anyons is a first step towards using them in quantum computing. We propose a protocol for braiding Majorana zero modes formed at the edges of nanowires with strong spin orbit coupling and proximity induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Pranay Gorantla , Rajdeep Sensarma

Parafermion bound states (PBSs) are generalizations of Majorana bound states (MBSs) and have been predicted to exist as zero-energy eigenstates in proximitized fractional quantum Hall edge states. Similarly to MBSs, a finite distance…

We propose to use residual parafermions of the overscreened Kondo effect for topological quantum computation. A superconducting proximity gap of $\Delta<T_K$ can be utilized to isolate the parafermion from the continuum of excitations and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-19 Yashar Komijani

Ettore Majorana, in his short life, unintendedly has uncovered the most profound problem in quantum computation by his discovery of Majorana fermion, a particle which is its own anti-particle. Owing to its non-Abelian exchange statistics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nur R. Ayukaryana , Mohammad H. Fauzi , Eddwi H. Hasdeo

We investigate a promising conformal field theory realization scheme for topological quantum computation based on the Fibonacci anyons, which are believed to be realized as quasiparticle excitations in the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ parafermion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Lachezar S. Georgiev , Ludmil Hadjiivanov , Grigori Matein