2020/11/09 by Pikulin, Dmitry I.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.04691
The quantum spin Hall edge is predicted to reliably produce Majorana zero modes on the border between magnetic insulator- and superconductor-proximitized regions of the edge. The direction of magnetization determines the size of the induced magnetic gap and can control the resulting tunnel barrier. Here we propose a way to avoid magnetic manipulations of the material and use electric-only local control of the barrier. We follow with a design of a charging-energy-protected qubit and a layout of a quantum computer based on the quantum spin Hall effect. We estimate relevant scales and show that they allow for testing of these ideas in the near future.