Quantifying robustness and locality of Majorana bound states in interacting systems

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Main Authors: Samuelson, William, Luna, Juan Daniel Torres, Miles, Sebastian, Bozkurt, A. Mert, Leijnse, Martin, Wimmer, Michael, Svensson, Viktor
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author Samuelson, William
Luna, Juan Daniel Torres
Miles, Sebastian
Bozkurt, A. Mert
Leijnse, Martin
Wimmer, Michael
Svensson, Viktor
author_facet Samuelson, William
Luna, Juan Daniel Torres
Miles, Sebastian
Bozkurt, A. Mert
Leijnse, Martin
Wimmer, Michael
Svensson, Viktor
contents Protecting qubits from perturbations is a central challenge in quantum computing. Topological superconductors with separated Majorana bound states (MBSs) provide a strong form of protection that only depends on the locality of perturbations. While the link between MBS separation, robust degeneracy, and protected braiding is well understood in non-interacting systems, recent experimental progress in short quantum-dot-based Kitaev chains highlights the need to establish these connections rigorously for interacting systems. We do this by defining MBSs from many-body ground states and show how their locality constrains their coupling to an environment. This, in turn, quantifies the protection of the energy degeneracy and the feasibility of non-abelian braiding.
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spellingShingle Quantifying robustness and locality of Majorana bound states in interacting systems
Samuelson, William
Luna, Juan Daniel Torres
Miles, Sebastian
Bozkurt, A. Mert
Leijnse, Martin
Wimmer, Michael
Svensson, Viktor
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
Protecting qubits from perturbations is a central challenge in quantum computing. Topological superconductors with separated Majorana bound states (MBSs) provide a strong form of protection that only depends on the locality of perturbations. While the link between MBS separation, robust degeneracy, and protected braiding is well understood in non-interacting systems, recent experimental progress in short quantum-dot-based Kitaev chains highlights the need to establish these connections rigorously for interacting systems. We do this by defining MBSs from many-body ground states and show how their locality constrains their coupling to an environment. This, in turn, quantifies the protection of the energy degeneracy and the feasibility of non-abelian braiding.
title Quantifying robustness and locality of Majorana bound states in interacting systems
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20538