ERC Advanced Grant · 2018
Search for mechanisms to control chiral Majorana modes in superconductors
Quantum mechanics teaches that electrons have a complex wave function, characterized by an amplitude and a phase. As first theorized by Majorana, it is possible in principle for a charge-neutral particle to have a real wave function. Such real fermions, or Majorana fermions, could be robust carriers of quantum information, insensitive to charge noise and other sources of dephasing. With recent experimental developments in topological superconductivity this idea is becoming a reality. Our objective is to design methods to control the flow of quantum information encoded in "flying" qubits based on Majorana fermions propagating unidirectionally (chirally) in the edge modes of a topological…
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