A generic new platform for topological quantum computation using semiconductor heterostructures

Details A generic new platform for topological quantum computation using semiconductor heterostructures A generic new platform for topological quantum computation using semiconductor heterostructures

2009-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2239v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040502 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 eps figures; accepted for publication in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.040502

We show that a film of a semiconductor such as GaAs, in which s-wave superconductivity and a Zeeman splitting are induced by proximity effect, supports zero-energy Majorana fermion modes in the ordinary vortex excitations. The key to the topological order is the existence of spin-orbit coupling, coexisting with proximity-induced s-wave superconductivity. Since time reversal symmetry is explicitly broken, the edge of the film constitutes a chiral Majorana wire. The heterostructure we propose -- a semiconducting thin film sandwiched between an s-wave superconductor and a magnetic insulator -- is a generic system which can be used as the platform for topological quantum computation by virtue of the existence of non-Abelian Majorana fermions.

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