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Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires

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Kitaev, A Yu·2001·Physics-Uspekhi

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Certain one-dimensional Fermi systems have an energy gap in the bulk spectrum while boundary states are described by one Majorana operator per boundary point. A finite system of length L possesses two ground states with an energy difference proportional to exp(- L / l 0 ) and different fermionic parities. Such systems can be used as qubits since they are intrinsically immune to decoherence. The property of a system to have boundary Majorana fermions is expressed as a condition on the bulk electron spectrum. The condition is satisfied in the presence of an arbitrary small energy gap induced by proximity of a three-dimensional p-wave superconductor, provided that the normal spectrum has an odd number of Fermi points in each half of the Brillouin zone (each spin component counts separately).

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Authors
Kitaev, A. Y.
Venue
Physics-Uspekhi
Published
2001-10-01
Volume
44
Issue
10S
Pages
131-136
ISSN
  • 1063-7869 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-4780
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W2168606130
Cited by
4,770
References
3
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0.94
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journal article
Language
en
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