Non-Abelian holonomy in a chaotic Majorana billiard
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Abstract
A ``Majorana billiard'' consists of a chaotic cavity coupled to a topological superconductor via tunneling contacts. In the limit of zero transmission, each of these contacts hosts a Majorana zero mode. Close to a cavity resonance and at a finite contact transparency, the resonant mode couples the Majorana modes, but a ground state degeneracy per fermion parity subspace remains if the number of Majorana modes coupled to the cavity exceeds five. Upon varying shape-defining gate voltages while remaining close to resonance, a nontrivial evolution within the degenerate ground-state manifold can be achieved. We characterize the corresponding non-Abelian holonomy using random matrix theory and discuss measurable signatures of the non-Abelian time-evolution.
*We acknowledge support by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 856526, and from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) project grant 277101999 within the CRC network TR 183 (subproject A02, A03, and C01), and from the Danish National Research Foundation, the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences.
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Presenters
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Max Geier
- University of Copenhagen