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Design of a Majorana trijunction

  • Juan Daniel Torres Luna*
  • , Sathish R. Kuppuswamy
  • , Anton R. Akhmerov
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Braiding of Majorana states demonstrates their non-Abelian exchange statistics. One implementation of braiding requires control of the pairwise couplings between all Majorana states in a trijunction device. To have adiabaticity, a trijunction device requires the desired pair coupling to be sufficiently large and the undesired couplings to vanish. In this work, we design and simulate a trijunction device in a two-dimensional electron gas with a focus on the normal region that connects three Majorana states. We use an optimisation approach to find the operational regime of the device in a multi-dimensional voltage space. Using the optimization results, we simulate a braiding experiment by adiabatically coupling different pairs of Majorana states without closing the topological gap. We then evaluate the feasibility of braiding in a trijunction device for different shapes and disorder strengths.

Original languageEnglish
Article number044
Number of pages13
JournalSciPost Physics
Volume16
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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