Tuesday, February 19, 2013

1302.3947 (Long-Hua Wu et al.)

Proposal for Manipulation of Majorana Fermions in Nano-Patterned
Semiconductor-Superconductor Heterostructure
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Long-Hua Wu, Qi-Feng Liang, Zhi Wang, Xiao Hu
We investigate a heterostructure system with a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor sandwiched by an s-wave superconductor and a ferromagnetic insulator, which supports Majorana fermions (MFs) at the superconducting vortex cores. We propose a scheme of transporting and braiding the MFs, which only requires application of point-like gate voltages in a system with nano-meter patterns. By solving the time-dependent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation numerically, we monitor the time evolutions of MF wave-functions and show that the braiding of MFs with non-Abelian statistics can be achieved by adiabatic switching within several nano seconds.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3947

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