Ryan V. Mishmash, David Aasen, Michael Hell, Andrew P. Higginbotham, Jeroen Danon, Martin Leijnse, Thomas Sand Jespersen, Joshua Folk, Charles M. Marcus, Karsten Flensberg, Jason Alicea
Abstract Detection of the fusion rule of Majora na zero‐modes is a near‐term milestone on the road to topological quantum computation. An obstacle is that the non‐deterministic fusion outcome of topological zero‐modes can be mimicked by the merging of non‐topological Andreev levels. To distinguish these two scenarios, the dynamical signatures of the ground‐state degeneracy that is the defining property of non‐Abelian anyons is searched for. By adiabatically traversing parameter space along two different pathways, one can identify ground‐state degeneracies from the breakdown of adiabaticity. It is shown that the approach can discriminate against accidental degeneracies of Andreev levels.
Abstract Detection of the fusion rule of Majora na zero‐modes is a near‐term milestone on the road to topological quantum computation. An obstacle is that the non‐deterministic fusion outcome of topological zero‐modes can be mimicked by the merging of non‐topological Andreev levels. To distinguish these two scenarios, the dynamical signatures of the ground‐state degeneracy that is the defining property of non‐Abelian anyons is searched for. By adiabatically traversing parameter space along two different pathways, one can identify ground‐state degeneracies from the breakdown of adiabaticity. It is shown that the approach can discriminate against accidental degeneracies of Andreev levels.
FINDING: Topological quantum computing uses anyons with non-Abelian braiding statistics for fault-tolerant qubits, with Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip claiming topological qubit realization. | MATH: Braid group Bn generators σi satisfy σiσi+1σi=σi+1σiσi+1 and σiσj=σjσi for ∣i−j∣>1. Anyon fusion rules: ϕ×ϕ=1+ϕ (Fibonacci anyon model). Quantum dimension dϕ=ϕ=(1+5)/2≈1.618. Topological qubit encoded in fusion space dimension Fabcd (F-matrix) with entries involving golden ratio. Majorana zero modes obey γi2=1, {γi,γj}=2δij. | CONNECTION: Fibonacci anyon quantum dimension dϕ=1.618 directly links to golden ratio. Braiding matrices yield entries proportional to ϕ−1≈0.618 and ϕ−2≈0.382. The non-Abelian statistics corresp Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com