Effects of the electrostatic environment on the Majorana nanowire devices

One of the promising platforms for creating Majorana bound states is a hybrid nanostructure consisting of a semiconducting nanowire covered by a superconductor.Weanalyze the previously disregarded role of electrostatic interaction in these devices. Our main result is that Coulomb interaction causes the chemical potential to respond to an applied...

Quantum transport in nanowire networks

Quantum technology is a promising area of research, with the quantum computer as the prime example. Quantum computers can perform calculations thought to be impossible by conventional means. The fundamental building block of a quantum computer is a qubit, which is a quantumsystem which can be used to process and store quantuminformation. Most...

Dynamical edge-vortex excitations: injection, braiding and detection

The detection of non-Abelian exchange statistics is an open challenge which holds important promises for the advent of topological quantum computation. A recent work proposes to rely on the edges to reveal the braiding statistics of nonAbelian anyons in the bulk, in an entirely deterministic dynamical process. A time-dependent gap in a Josephson...

Shadow-wall lithography as a novel approach to Majorana devices

The development of quantum computers is perhaps one of the most exciting innovations of our time. The most investigated quantum computers, however, suffer from the fact that quantum information is lost due to interaction between the quantum bits and their environment. As a radically different approach, it has been proposed that one can instead...