Local Convertibility and the Quantum Simulation of Edge States in Many-Body Systems

2013/06/30 by Fabio Franchini, Jian Cui, Luigi Amico +7
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computer science #Convertibility #MAJORANA #Philosophy #Physics #Property (philosophy) #Quantum #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum computer #Quantum many-body systems #Quantum mechanics #Quantum simulator #Superconductivity #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.str-el #hep-th #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevx.4.041028

published as Phys. Rev. X 4, 041028 (2014) · Accepted by Physical Review X. 5 pages (+ 2 pages of Methods & SupplementaryMmaterial). 11 figures. Several changes since first submission

arxiv created 2014/09/23 · openalex publication_date 2014/11/13 · arxiv updated 2014/11/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02

Abstract

Quantum simulators pave the way for quantum computers, which promise to be smaller and faster than current classical machines. Researchers show that Majorana edge states can result in genuinely quantum long-range correlations, which are a fundamental property of quantum machines.

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