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• Majorana modes in topological superconductors
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•• Introduction to topological quantum computing
• Physical realizations of Majorana modes in topological superconductors
• Experimental signatures of Majorana modes
• Quantum computing with Majoranas
Literature:C. Nayak et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1083 (2008)
J. Alicea, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 076501 (2012);
M. Leijnse & K. Flensberg, Semicond. Sci. Technol. 27, 124003 (2012)
C.W.J. Beenakker, Annu. Rev. Con. Mat. Phys. 4, 113 (2013)
B. A. Bernevig, Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors
S. Das Sarma, M. Freedman, & C. Nayak, Quantum Information 1, 15001 (2015)
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•Maissam Barkeshli
•Bela Bauer
•Parsa Bonderson
•Meng Cheng
•Michael Freedman
•Matthew Hastings
•Torsten Karzig
•Dong Liu
•Roman Lutchyn
•Chetan Nayak
•Kevin Walker
•Zhenghan Wang
•Mike Zaletel
• Microsoft Station Q
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• Explore: Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering required to build and effectively use quantum computers
• General approach: Topological quantum computation
• We coordinate with experimentalists and other theorists at:
•Bell Labs
•Caltech
•Columbia
•Delft
•ETH
•Harvard
•Niels Bohr Institute
• Our approach
•Princeton
•Stanford
•University of Chicago
•University of Maryland
•University of Illinois
•University of California Santa Barbara
•Weizmann Institute
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• Introduction to Quantum Computing
“A quantum computer – a new type of machine that exploits
the quantum properties of information – could perform certain types of calculations far more efficiently than any
foreseeable classical computer” – J. Preskill (Caltech).
Many laboratories around the world are trying to harness the power of quantum mechanics !
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• Why is QC more powerful?
• EntanglementQuantum states need not be separable. For example:
This is the property that enables quantum state teleportation and
“spooky action at a distance.”
• SuperpositionA (classical) bit is given by a physical system that can exist in one of two distinct states: 0 or 1
A qubit is given by a physical system that can exist in a linear combination of two distinct quantum states: or
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• Quantum Parallelism
Computations can be performed in superposition!
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•A qubit = quantum two-level system
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Bloch vector
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• Experimental realization of qubits
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• Quantum Decoherence
Classical computers: store multiple copies
Quantum computers: situation is more complex
However, quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space.
They occur in a laboratory!
Quantum decoherence – the loss of information
from a system into the environment
We would like to use a natural resource - many-body Hilbert space
Nevertheless, quantum error correction is theoretically possible but VERY HARD in practice – error rate
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• Topological Quantum Computation
Topological phases of matter have topological degrees of freedom which decouple from local operations.
Kitaev (1997)
Freedman (1998)
Quantum information encoded in topological degrees of freedom is “topologically protected” from noise (errors are exponentially suppressed).
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• Examples of topological phases
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Quantized Hall conductivity:
B
2
xy hne
σ =
Integer accurate to 10-9
y xy xJ Eσ=
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•“Examples” of non-Abelian Topological Phases
• Moore-Read “Pfaffian” Fractional Quantum Hall state • px+ipy superfluids and superconductors
2D px+ipy Paired Systems:
Read & Green (2000);
Moore & Read (1991)
Volovik (2000)
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• Topological quantum computation
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• Dimensionality and Quantum Statistics
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• Solid-state Majoranas
Consider creation/annihilation operators for a spinless fermion
These can be rewritten in terms of Majorana fermion operators
What happens if we have many Majoranas ?
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• Quantum computation with Majoranas
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• Finding Majorana
In 1938 one of the world's greatest scientists withdrew all his money and disappeared during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples. Whether he killed himself, was murdered or lived on under a different identity is still not known.
Kouwenhoven’s group is trying
to find Majorana in the lab
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• Proposed physical realizations of solid-state Majoranas
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• BCS Theory of Superconductivity
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• Bogoliubov-de-Gennes formalism
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• Superconductors are natural hosts for Majoranas
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•Topological protection of zero-energy mode
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• Toy model: 1D Majorana wire
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• Introduction to bosonization
• Free fermions
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• Introduce bosonic variables:
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• Effect of interactions in Majorana wires
• Consider a 1D spinless p-wave superconductor with interactions
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• Degeneracy splitting for finite-length wires
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• Effect of disorder in Majorana wires
1D – Motrunich et al’01
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•Interplay of disorder & interactions in Majorana wires
Short-range disorder action in bosonic variables reads
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•Interplay of disorder & interactions in Majorana wires
Use replica method:
see arXiv:cond-mat/0205555(2002)
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• Topological phase diagram for disordered Majorana wires
TP phase boundary
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•• Introduction to topological quantum computing
• Physical realizations of Majorana modes in topological superconductors
• Experimental signatures of Majorana modes
• Quantum computing with Majoranas
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Literature:C. Nayak et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1083 (2008)
J. Alicea, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 076501 (2012);
M. Leijnse & K. Flensberg, Semicond. Sci. Technol. 27, 124003 (2012)
C.W.J. Beenakker, Annu. Rev. Con. Mat. Phys. 4, 113 (2013)
B. A. Bernevig, Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors
S. Das Sarma, M. Freedman, & C. Nayak, Quantum Information 1, 15001 (2015)
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• Physical realizations: ways to avoid fermion doubling
• Chiral p-wave superconductors
• Topological insulator/s-wave superconductor
•Spin-orbit coupled semiconductor/ s-wave superconductor
Different routes to realize a non-degenerate Majorana zero-energy modes:
• Magnetic atom chain/s-wave
superconductor
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• Sr2RuO4 - topological superconductor ?
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• Evidence for TRS-breaking in Sr2RuO4
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• Anomalous Hall conductivity of a chiral SC
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• Anomalous Hall conductivity
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• Disorder-induced Hall conductivity
Red – imaginary Blue – real part
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• Evidence for TRS in strontium ruthenate
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• Evidence for half-quantum vortices
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• Topological insulator – new phase of matter
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• 3D topological insulators
band insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling
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• Topological insulator/superconductor heterostructure
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• Majorana modes at TI/SC interface
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• Challenges
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• Semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures
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• Rashba spin-orbit coupling
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• Semiconductor with spin-orbit interaction
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• Spinless p+ip superconductivity in semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures
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• 1D semiconductor nanowires
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• Majorana quantum wires
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• Density of states across phase transition
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• Challenges
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L. Yu, Acta Phys. Sin. 21, 75 (1965) H. Shiba, Prog. Theo. Phys. 40, 435 (1968)
Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states
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A. I. Rusinov, JETPL 9, 85 (1969)
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• MBS in ferromagnetic impurity chains
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SC with Rashba SOC
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Shiba state
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•S. Nadj-Perge, et al., Science 346, 602 (2014)
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•• Introduction to topological quantum computing
• Physical realizations of Majorana modes in topological superconductors
• Experimental signatures of Majorana modes
• Quantum computing with Majoranas
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Literature:C. Nayak et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1083 (2008)
J. Alicea, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 076501 (2012);
M. Leijnse & K. Flensberg, Semicond. Sci. Technol. 27, 124003 (2012)
C.W.J. Beenakker, Annu. Rev. Con. Mat. Phys. 4, 113 (2013)
B. A. Bernevig, Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors
S. Das Sarma, M. Freedman, & C. Nayak, Quantum Information 1, 15001 (2015)
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• Experimental progress in nanowires
•• Zero-bias tunneling conductance:
- Mourik et al. (Delft), Science 336, 1003 (2012)
- Deng et al. (Lund/Peking), Nano Lett. 12, 6414 (2012)
- Das, A. et al. (Weizmann), Nature Phys. 8, 887 (2012)
- Finck et al. (UIUC), PRL 110, 126406 (2013)
- Churchill et al. (Harvard), PRB 87, 241401(R) (2013)
• Coulomb blockade experiments - Albrecht et al., Nature 531, 206 (2016)
• Fractional (4pi-periodic) ac Josephson effect: - Rokhinson et al., Nature Phys. 8, 795 (2012)
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• Zero-bias tunneling conductance
E=0: unitarity and particle-hole symmetry
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• Measurements of zero-bias conduction peak
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• Zero bias tunneling conductance
Mourik et al. (Delft), Science, 2012
Summary of experimental findings: •High mobility, quasi-ballistic InSb nanowires; strong SOI, induced SC •ZBP onsets at B ~ 100 mT, Ez ~ 150 µeV, so Ez ~ Δ
•ZBP remains stuck to zero bias over significant range of B (ΔEz ~ 0.5-1.5 meV)
•ZBP persist over large gate ranges for all gates, but gate tuning is required •ZBP vanishes when B is aligned with BSO which shows that SOI is a necessary ingredient •ZBP robust in both gate and B not observed in two N-NW-N devices which shows that superconductivity is a necessary ingredient
• quantization of the conductance
• soft gap
Stanescu, Lutchyn, Das Sarma, PRB’11
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Krogstrup et al. (NBI), Nature Mat. 14, 400 (2015)
• Epitaxial interface between Al and InAs
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C. Marcus et al (unpublished)
• Zero-bias tunneling conductance (2015)
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• Universal transport signatures of Majorana modes
Proceed a la Kane-Fisher (1992): integrate out bulk modes in nanowire and derive boundary theory for TSC/LL junction
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• Universal transport signatures of Majorana modes
Fidkowski, Alicea, Lindner, Lutchyn & Fisher, PRB’12
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• Conductance in the low energy limit
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• Conductance in the high energy limit
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•Coulomb blockade experiments with Majorana wires
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•Experiments on proximitized nanowires (N-S-N)
Short wires (L~250nm)
(Higginbotham et al., Nat Phys. 2015)
Long wires (L~1.5mm)
Albrecht et al., Nature, (2016)
Need quantitative theory of thermodynamic and transport properties: Coulomb blockade: Roman M. Lutchyn, Karsten Flensberg, Leonid I. Glazman, arXiv:1606.06756 (2016)
Two terminal conductance: B. van Heck, R. Lutchyn, and L. Glazman, arXiv:1603.08258 (2016)
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• Exponential splitting of Majorana zero modes
Albrecht et al., Nature (2016)
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Broadening of charge steps depends
on quantum charge fluctuations
and encodes information about
the state of the system
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• Coulomb blockade peaks with magnetic field•
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• Weak tunneling limit: spinful case
Schrieffer-Wolff transformation
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• Weak tunneling limit: spinful case (B=0)
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Majorana island
• Weak tunneling limit: spinless case
Normal island
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• Two terminal conductance
Cooper pair
tunneling
Incoherent single
electron tunneling
Resonant tunneling
through Majoranas
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•Fractional ac Josephson effect
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• Josephson current through heterostructure
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• Fractional ac Josephson effect
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• Quantum Computing with Majoranas
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• Manipulating Majoranas
Flux control Electrostatic control
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• Quantum gates in Ising TQFT
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• Protected Exchange Gates
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• Majorana Quasiparticle Gates
Braiding and interferometric measurements of Majorana quasiparticles gives the Clifford gates
This is not computationally universal gate set.
But it only requires supplementation by
like, such as
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“Magic state distillation”
• Making Majorana Universal
•Bravyi & Kitaev (2005)
Given topologically protected Clifford gates, the unprotected, noisy gate
can be purified (error-corrected) with a remarkably high error threshold of ~ 14%!
These unprotected gates can be generated by • Proximity induced energy splitting • Interference processes • Importing them from other systems…