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We analyse the control of Majorana zero-energy states by mapping the fermionic system onto a chain of Ising spins. Although the topological protection is lost for the Ising system, the mapping provides additional insight into the nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Stefan Backens , Alexander Shnirman , Yuriy Makhlin , Yuval Gefen , Johan E. Mooij , Gerd Schön

We propose a systematic magnetic-flux-free approach to detect, manipulate and braid Majorana fermions in a semiconductor nanowire-based topological Josephson junction by utilizing the Majorana spin degree of freedom. We find an intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-18 Xin Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Dong-Ling Deng , Xiong-Jun Liu , S. Das Sarma

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) in condensed matter systems have attracted great attention in the past two decades, due to their interesting physics and potential application in topological quantum computing (TQC). However, the topologically…

We develop the complete theory for non-Abelian braiding of Majorana Kramers' pairs (MKPs) in time-reversal (TR) invariant topological superconductors. By introducing an effective Hamiltonian approach to describe the braiding of MKPs, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-20 Pin Gao , Ying-Ping He , Xiong-Jun Liu

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

Executing quantum algorithms using Majorana zero modes - a major milestone for the field of topological quantum computing - requires a platform that can be scaled to large quantum registers, can be controlled in real time and space, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jasmin Bedow , Dirk K. Morr

To confirm the Majorana signatures, significant effort has been devoted to distinguishing between Majorana zero modes (MZMs) and spatially separated quasi-Majorana modes (QMMs). Because both MZMs and QMMs cause a quantized zero-bias peak in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Donghao Liu , Zhan Cao , Xin Liu , Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu

In topological quantum computing, unitary operations on qubits are performed by adiabatic braiding of non-Abelian quasiparticles, such as Majorana zero modes, and are protected from local environmental perturbations. In the adiabatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Armin Rahmani , Babak Seradjeh , Marcel Franz

Majorana zero modes have gained significant interest due to their potential applications in topological quantum computing and in the realization of exotic quantum phases. These zero-energy quasiparticle excitations localize at the vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Takeshi Mizushima , Muneto Nitta

Majorana bound states have been a focus of condensed matter research for their potential applications in topological quantum computation. Here we utilize two charge-qubit arrays to explicitly simulate a DIII class one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Ting Mao , Z. D. Wang

We introduce and study a class of anyon models that are a natural generalization of Ising anyons and Majorana fermion zero modes. These models combine an Ising anyon sector with a sector associated with $SO(m)_2$ Chern-Simons theory. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-19 Matthew B. Hastings , Chetan Nayak , Zhenghan Wang

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle-hole symmetric, and spatially-separated end modes which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Pasquale Marra

Majorana zero modes are non-Abelian quasiparticles that emerge on the edges of topological phases of superconductors. Evidence of their presence has been reported in transport measurements on engineered superconducting-based nanostructures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Dganit Meidan , Tal Gur , Alessandro Romito

Exchangeless braiding of Majorana modes is studied in minimal networks of weakly hybridized Kitaev chains of finite length using a rigorous many-body framework. In particular, for two coupled chains it is shown that exchangeless braiding is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Robin Quade , Michael Potthoff

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

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological superconductivity supports exotic Majorana bound states (MBS) which are chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. With their non-Abelian exchange statistics and fractionalization of a single electron stored nonlocally as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Tong Zhou , Matthieu C. Dartiailh , William Mayer , Jong E. Han , Alex Matos-Abiague , Javad Shabani , Igor Zutic

We investigate the effects of coupling a local electromagnetic cavity to a segment of a topological Kitaev chain (KC), with particular emphasis on the interplay between photons and Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In addition to the well-known…

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
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