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The braiding of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) forms the fundamental building block for topological quantum computation. Braiding protocols which involve the physical exchange of MZMs are typically envisioned on a network of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Bill P. Truong , Kartiek Agarwal , T. Pereg-Barnea

Majorana-zero-modes (MZMs) were predicted to exist as edge states of a physical system called the Kitaev chain. MZMs should host particles that are their own antiparticles and could be used as a basis for a qubit which is robust-to-noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Marko J. Rančić

We show the appearance of an unconventional Majorana zero mode whose wave function splits into multiple parts located at different ends of different topological superconductors, hereinafter referred to as a multi-locational Majorana zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Yutaro Nagae , Andreas P. Schnyder , Yukio Tanaka , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Ikegaya

Motivated by a recent experiment on superfluid 3He-A confined in narrow parallel plates using a rotating cryostat, we explore possible vortices stable under magnetic field applied to arbitrary angle relative to the plates in order to seek…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-15 Takuto Kawakami , Yasumasa Tsutsumi , Kazushige Machida

In this work, we investigate the tunneling characteristics of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in vortex lattices based on scanning tunneling microscopy measurement. We find that zero bias conductance does not reach the quantized value owing to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-27 Jiong Mei , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

Detecting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in topological superconductors remains challenging, as localized non-topological states can mimic MZM signatures. Here, we propose electron interferometry by non-local transport measurements as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Nadav Drechsler , Omri Lesser , Yuval Oreg

The transition to the fault-tolerant era exposes the limitations of homogeneous quantum systems, where no single qubit modality simultaneously offers optimal operation speed, connectivity, and scalability. In this work, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Xiang Fang , Jixuan Ruan , Sharanya Prabhu , Ang Li , Travis Humble , Dean Tullsen , Yufei Ding

We propose a platform based on a fully compensated ferrimagnet (fFIM) for realizing and controlling topological superconductivity with Majorana bound states across multiple dimensions. Through symmetry analysis and microscopic modeling, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Yu-Xuan Li , Yicheng Liu , Cheng-Cheng Liu

An antidot-pinned vortex in a three-dimensional topological insulator-superconductor platform hosts a Majorana zero mode (MZM). However, numerous Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon (CdGM) states coexist with it. We develop a general theory to study…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhibo Ren , Jukka I. Väyrynen

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

In this work, we demonstrate that making a cut (a narrow vacuum regime) in the bulk of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) creates a topologically protected single helical channel with counter-propagating electron modes, and inducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Ying-Ming Xie , Xue-Jian Gao , Tai-Kai Ng , K. T. Law

Electron transport through the T-shaped quantum-dot (QD) structure is theoretically investigated, by considering a Majorana zero mode coupled to the terminal QD. It is found that in the double-QD case, the presence of the Majorana zero mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Wei-Jiang Gong , Shu-Feng Zhang , Zhi-Chao Li , Guangyu Yi , Yi-Song Zheng

Symmetry-protected topological superconductors (TSCs) can host multiple Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at their edges or vortex cores, while whether the Majorana braiding in such systems is non-Abelian in general remains an open question. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Jian-Song Hong , Ting-Fung Jeffrey Poon , Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

We explore the tunneling transport properties of a quantum dot embedded in an optical microcavity and coupled to a semiconductor-superconductor one-dimensional nanowire (Majorana nanowire) hosting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at their edges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 L. S. Ricco , V. K. Kozin , A. C. Seridonio , I. A. Shelykh

Because Majorana zero modes store quantum information non-locally, they are protected from noise, and have been proposed as a building block for a quantum computer. We show how to use the same protection from noise to implement universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 T. E. O'Brien , P. Rożek , A. R. Akhmerov

The issue on the effect of interactions in topological states concerns not only interacting topological phases but also novel symmetry-breaking phases and phase transitions. Here we study the interaction effect on Majorana zero modes (MZMs)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-31 Y. Kamiya , A. Furusaki , J. C. Y. Teo , G. -W. Chern

We introduce a scheme for preparation, manipulation, and readout of Majorana zero modes in semiconducting wires with mesoscopic superconducting islands. Our approach synthesizes recent advances in materials growth with tools commonly used…

Topological Quantum Computing has largely evolved towards a paradigm of manipulating edge localized Majorana within $p$-wave topological superconducting nanowires. To bridge the gap between physical qubit systems and quantum algorithms, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Adrian D. Scheppe , Michael V. Pak

Topological quantum computation by way of braiding of Majorana fermions is not universal quantum computation. There are several attempts to make universal quantum computation by introducing some additional quantum gates or quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Motohiko Ezawa

Certain physical systems that one might consider for fault-tolerant quantum computing where qubits do not readily interact, for instance photons, are better suited for measurement-based quantum-computational protocols. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Benjamin J. Brown , Sam Roberts