Scaling up a sign-ordered Kitaev chain without magnetic flux control
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| author | Liu, Chun-Xiao Miles, Sebastian Bordin, Alberto Haaf, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Mazur, Grzegorz P. Bozkurt, A. Mert Wimmer, Michael |
| author_facet | Liu, Chun-Xiao Miles, Sebastian Bordin, Alberto Haaf, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Mazur, Grzegorz P. Bozkurt, A. Mert Wimmer, Michael |
| contents | Quantum dot-superconductor arrays have emerged as a new and promising material platform for realizing topological Kitaev chains. So far, experiments have implemented a two-site chain with limited protection. Here we propose an experimentally feasible protocol for scaling up the chain in order to enhance the protection of the Majorana zero modes. To this end, we make use of the fact that the relative sign of normal and superconducting hoppings mediated by an Andreev bound state can be changed by electrostatic gates. In this way, our method only relies on the use of individual electrostatic gates on hybrid regions, quantum dots, and tunnel barriers, respectively, without the need for individual magnetic flux control, greatly simplifying the device design. Our work provides guidance for realizing a topologically protected Kitaev chain, which is the building block of error-resilient topological quantum computation. |
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| spellingShingle | Scaling up a sign-ordered Kitaev chain without magnetic flux control Liu, Chun-Xiao Miles, Sebastian Bordin, Alberto Haaf, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Mazur, Grzegorz P. Bozkurt, A. Mert Wimmer, Michael Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum dot-superconductor arrays have emerged as a new and promising material platform for realizing topological Kitaev chains. So far, experiments have implemented a two-site chain with limited protection. Here we propose an experimentally feasible protocol for scaling up the chain in order to enhance the protection of the Majorana zero modes. To this end, we make use of the fact that the relative sign of normal and superconducting hoppings mediated by an Andreev bound state can be changed by electrostatic gates. In this way, our method only relies on the use of individual electrostatic gates on hybrid regions, quantum dots, and tunnel barriers, respectively, without the need for individual magnetic flux control, greatly simplifying the device design. Our work provides guidance for realizing a topologically protected Kitaev chain, which is the building block of error-resilient topological quantum computation. |
| title | Scaling up a sign-ordered Kitaev chain without magnetic flux control |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04630 |