Majorana fermions in nanowire-superconductor systems in periodic magnetic fields and their resonant manipulation

ORAL

Abstract

The nanowire-superconductor structures with a helical magnetic field are known to host Majorana fermions. We show that the structures built in Si can support Majorana fermions even for the field shapes that are very different from helical ones. We discuss various shapes and imperfections of the magnetic field, and present phase diagrams for a wide range of experimental parameters.

Preliminary results of a separate project indicate the possibility to achieve the Majorana braiding in a 1D structure. The idea is to employ resonant manipulation that brings Majoranas to the first excited delocalized state that serves as a common bus for localized states. Tuning modulations on 4 gates, we aim to achieve an arbitrary unitary transformation on Majorana subspace.

*This work was supported by the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship program sponsored by the Basic Research Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and funded by the Office of Naval Research through Grant No. N00014-15-1-0029, and by NSF EAGER Grant No. DMR-1743986. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 694272).

Presenters

  • Viktoriia Kornich

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

Authors

  • Viktoriia Kornich

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Xiaoli Huang

    • TU Delft
  • Maxim Vavilov

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Mark G Friesen

    • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • M. A. Eriksson

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Susan Coppersmith

    • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Y. V. Nazarov

    • TU Delft