[HTML][HTML] Majorana nanowires for topological quantum computation

P Marra - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

Enhancing the excitation gap of a quantum-dot-based Kitaev chain

CX Liu, AM Bozkurt, F Zatelli, SLD ten Haaf… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Connecting double quantum dots via a semiconductor-superconductor hybrid segment
offers a platform for creating a two-site Kitaev chain that hosts Majorana zero modes at a …

Fusion protocol for Majorana modes in coupled quantum dots

CX Liu, H Pan, F Setiawan, M Wimmer, JD Sau - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In a recent breakthrough experiment [Nature (London) 614, 445 (2023) 10.1038/s41586-022-
05585-1], signatures of Majorana zero modes have been observed in tunnel spectroscopy …

Fusion of Majorana bound states with mini-gate control in two-dimensional systems

T Zhou, MC Dartiailh, K Sardashti, JE Han… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A hallmark of topological superconductivity is the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana bound
states (MBS), its chargeless zero-energy emergent quasiparticles. The resulting …

Braiding-based quantum control of a Majorana qubit built from quantum dots

P Boross, A Pályi - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Topology-related ideas might lead to noise-resilient quantum computing. For example, it is
expected that the slow spatial exchange (“braiding”) of Majorana zero modes in …

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 …

Local control of supercurrent density in epitaxial planar Josephson junctions

BH Elfeky, N Lotfizadeh, WF Schiela, WM Strickland… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The critical current response to an applied out-of-plane magnetic field in a Josephson
junction provides insight into the uniformity of its current distribution. In Josephson junctions …

Parity-to-charge conversion in Majorana qubit readout

MIK Munk, J Schulenborg, R Egger, K Flensberg - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We study the time-dependent effect of Markovian readout processes on Majorana qubits
whose parity degrees of freedom are converted into the charge of a tunnel-coupled quantum …

Topologically protected braiding in a single wire using Floquet Majorana modes

B Bauer, T Pereg-Barnea, T Karzig, MT Rieder… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Majorana zero modes are a promising platform for topologically protected quantum
information processing. Their non-Abelian nature, which is key for performing quantum …

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 …