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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

Half-integer conductance, the signature of Majorana edge modes, has been recently observed in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructure. Here, we analyze a scheme for gate-tunable control of degenerate ground states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Nima Djavid , Gen Yin , Yafis Barlas , Roger Lake

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…

The study of topological states has become an important topic in both solid-state systems and artificial structures such as photonic crystals and phononic crystals. Among them, Majorana zero modes, which exhibit nontrivial braiding process,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Qiyun Ma , Hailong He , Meng Xiao , Zhengyou Liu

We propose molecular magnets as a platform to emulate Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Using a quantum chemistry approach, we identify several candidates and predict a Co trimer to have sufficient properties to host MZMs. Parameters of the…

The Gottesman-Knill theorem holds that operations from the Clifford group, when combined with preparation and detection of qubit states in the computational basis, are insufficient for universal quantum computation. Indeed, any measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 David J. Clarke , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

We show how to exchange (braid) Majorana fermions in a network of superconducting nanowires by control over Coulomb interactions rather than tunneling. Even though Majorana fermions are charge-neutral quasiparticles (equal to their own…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 B. van Heck , A. R. Akhmerov , F. Hassler , M. Burrello , C. W. J. Beenakker

Braiding of anyons such as Majoranas or parafermions provides only Clifford gates which do not form a universal set of quantum gates. We propose a robust and resource-efficient scheme to perform a non-Clifford gate on a logical qudit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Arpit Dua , Boris Malomed , Meng Cheng , Liang Jiang

Majorana zero modes are a promising platform for topologically protected quantum information processing. Their non-Abelian nature, which is key for performing quantum gates, is most prominently exhibited through braiding. While originally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-10 Bela Bauer , T. Pereg-Barnea , Torsten Karzig , Maria-Theresa Rieder , Gil Refael , Erez Berg , Yuval Oreg

Qubits built out of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have long been theorized as a potential pathway toward fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Almost unavoidable in these processes is Majorana wavefunction overlap, known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Dan Crawford , Stephan Rachel

In search of fault-tolerant topological quantum computation (TQC), zero-bias conductance peak as a necessary signature of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) has been observed in a number of solid-state systems. Here, we present the signature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Guang Yang , Zhaozheng Lyu , Junhua Wang , Jianghua Ying , Xiang Zhang , Jie Shen , Guangtong Liu , Jie Fan , Zhongqing Ji , Xiunian Jing , Fanming Qu , Li Lu

Andreev bound states in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices can have near-zero energy in the topologically trivial regime as long as the confinement potential is sufficiently smooth. These quasi-Majorana states show zero-bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 A. Vuik , B. Nijholt , A. R. Akhmerov , M. Wimmer

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

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

Motivated by recent experiments we consider transport across an interacting magnetic impurity coupled to the Majorana zero mode (MZM) observed at the boundary of a topological superconductor (SC). In the presence of a finite tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Daniele Guerci , Andrea Nava

Majorana Zero Modes (MZMs) are prime candidates for robust topological quantum bits, holding a great promise for quantum computing. Semiconducting nanowires with strong spin orbit coupling offers a promising platform to harness…

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

Majorana zero modes (MZMs), emerging as exotic quasiparticles that carry non-Abelian statistics, hold great promise for achieving fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. A key signature of the presence of MZMs is the zero-bias peaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Mouyang Cheng , Ryotaro Okabe , Abhijatmedhi Chotrattanapituk , Mingda Li

Majorana zero modes (MZMs), promising for topological quantum computation, are naturally hosted in vortices of two-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs). However, precise control and braiding of these vortex-bound MZMs remains a…

We demonstrate the successful simulation of $\sqrt{Z}$-, $\sqrt{X}$- and $X$-quantum gates using Majorana zero modes (MZMs) that emerge in magnetic vortices located in topological superconductors. We compute the transition probabilities and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Maxwell Buss , Jasmin Bedow , Prashant Gupta , Dirk K. Morr