Milestones toward Majorana-based quantum computing

D Aasen, M Hell, RV Mishmash, A Higginbotham… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
We introduce a scheme for preparation, manipulation, and read out of Majorana zero modes
in semiconducting wires with mesoscopic superconducting islands. Our approach …

Dynamical buildup of a quantized hall response from nontopological states

Y Hu, P Zoller, JC Budich - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We consider a two-dimensional system initialized in a topologically trivial state before its
Hamiltonian is ramped through a phase transition into a Chern insulator regime. This …

Readout of Majorana qubits

JF Steiner, F von Oppen - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Schemes for topological quantum computation with Majorana bound states rely heavily on
the ability to projectively measure products of Majorana operators. Here, we employ …

Protocol discovery for the quantum control of majoranas by differentiable programming and natural evolution strategies

L Coopmans, D Luo, G Kells, BK Clark, J Carrasquilla - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Quantum control, which refers to the active manipulation of physical systems described by
the laws of quantum mechanics, constitutes an essential ingredient for the development of …

First observation of new flat line fano profile via an x-ray planar cavity

ZR Ma, XC Huang, TJ Li, HC Wang, GC Liu, ZS Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A new Fano profile of a flat line is achieved experimentally by manipulating the relative
amplitude of the continuum path, when q takes the pure imaginary number of-i in the x-ray …

Fractional quantum Zeno effect emerging from non-Hermitian physics

Y Sun, T Shi, Z Liu, Z Zhang, L Xiao, S Jia, Y Hu - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Exploring non-Hermitian phenomenology is an exciting frontier of modern physics. However,
the demonstration of a non-Hermitian phenomenon that is quantum in nature has remained …

Dissipative topological phase transition with strong system-environment coupling

W Nie, M Antezza, Y Liu, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
A primary motivation for studying topological matter regards the protection of topological
order from its environment. In this work, we study a topological emitter array coupled to an …

Observation of topological Uhlmann phases with superconducting qubits

O Viyuela, A Rivas, S Gasparinetti, A Wallraff… - npj Quantum …, 2018 - nature.com
Topological insulators and superconductors at finite temperature can be characterized by
the topological Uhlmann phase. However, a direct experimental measurement of this …

Dephasing and leakage dynamics of noisy Majorana-based qubits: Topological versus Andreev

RV Mishmash, B Bauer, F von Oppen, J Alicea - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Topological quantum computation encodes quantum information nonlocally by nucleating
non-Abelian anyons separated by distances L, typically spanning the qubit device size. This …

Zak phase and band inversion in dimerized one-dimensional locally resonant metamaterials

W Zhu, Y Ding, J Ren, Y Sun, Y Li, H Jiang, H Chen - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The Zak phase, which refers to Berry's phase picked up by a particle moving across the
Brillouin zone, characterizes the topological properties of Bloch bands in a one-dimensional …