Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2011-03-14
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 067001 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4.5 pages, 3 Figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.067001
Semiconducting nanowires in proximity to superconductors are promising experimental systems for Majorana fermions which may ultimately be used as building blocks for topological quantum computers. A serious challenge in the experimental realization of the Majorana fermion in these semiconductor-superconductor nanowire structures is tuning the semiconductor chemical potential in close proximity to the metallic superconductor. We show that, presently realizable structures in experiments with tunable chemical potential lead to Majorana resonances, which are interesting in their own right, but do not manifest non-Abelian statistics. This poses a central challenge to the field. We show how to overcome this challenge, thus resolving a crucial barrier to the solid state realization of a topological system containing the Majorana fermion. We propose a new topological superconducting array structure where introducing the superconducting proximity effect from adjacent nanowires generates Majorana fermions with non-Abelian statistics.
Hui Hoi-Yin
Lin Chien Hung
Sarma Sankar Das
Sau Jay D.
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