2020/09/17 by Nur R. Ayukaryana, Mohammad H. Fauzi, Mohammad Hamzah Fauzi +1 · 7 citations
Materials Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Combinatorics #Computer science #Distributed computing #Fault tolerance #Graphene research and applications #MAJORANA #Mathematics #Philosophy #Physics #Quantum #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum computer #Quantum mechanics #Superconductivity #Theoretical physics #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Topology (electrical circuits) #Zero (linguistics) #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/5.0059974
published in AIP conference proceedings 2382, 020007 (American Institute of Physics) · 18 pages, 3 figures, The 4th International Seminar on Metallurgy and Materials (ISMM) 2020 Indonesian Institute of Sciences; typos corrected
arxiv created 2020/09/17 · openalex publication_date 2021/01/01 · arxiv updated 2021/08/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Ettore Majorana, in his short life, unintendedly has uncovered the most profound problem in quantum computation by his discovery of Majorana fermion, a particle which is its own anti-particle. Owing to its non-Abelian exchange statistics, Majorana fermions may act as a qubit for a universal quantum computer which is fault-tolerant. The existence of such particle is predicted in mid-gap states (zero modes) of a topological superconductor as bound states that have a highly entangled degenerate ground state. This introductory overview will focus on the simplest theoretical proposals of Majorana fermions for topological quantum computing in superconducting systems, emphasizing the quest from the scalability problem of quantum computer to its possible solution with topological quantum computer employing non-Abelian anyons on various platforms of certain Majorana fermion ‘signature’ encountered.