Majorana Superconducting Qubit

Schrade, Constantin; Fu, Liang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.267002

Majorana Superconducting Qubit

Journal Article · Thu Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.267002· OSTI ID:1574812

Schrade, Constantin ^[1]; Fu, Liang ^[2]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Northeastern University
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics

In this paper, we propose a platform for universal quantum computation that uses conventional $$s$$-wave superconducting leads to address a topological qubit stored in spatially separated Majorana bound states in a multiterminal topological superconductor island. Both the manipulation and readout of this “Majorana superconducting qubit” are realized by tunnel couplings between Majorana bound states and the superconducting leads. The ability of turning on and off tunnel couplings on demand by local gates enables individual qubit addressability while avoiding cross-talk errors. By combining the scalability of superconducting qubit and the robustness of topological qubits, the Majorana superconducting qubit may provide a promising and realistic route towards quantum computation.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States); Quantum Information Science (QIS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010526; SC0019275

OSTI ID:: 1574812

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1488982

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 26 Vol. 121; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (60)

One-Dimensional Weak Localization of Electrons in a Single InAs Nanowire Liang, Dong; Sakr, Mohammed R.; Gao, Xuan P. A. Nano Letters, Vol. 9, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl900424k	journal	April 2009
Superconducting quantum circuits at the surface code threshold for fault tolerance Barends, R.; Kelly, J.; Megrant, A. Nature, Vol. 508, Issue 7497 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13171	journal	April 2014
State preservation by repetitive error detection in a superconducting quantum circuit Kelly, J.; Barends, R.; Fowler, A. G. Nature, Vol. 519, Issue 7541 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14270	journal	March 2015
Epitaxy of advanced nanowire quantum devices Gazibegovic, Sasa; Car, Diana; Zhang, Hao Nature, Vol. 548, Issue 7668 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23468	journal	August 2017
Quantized Majorana conductance Zhang, Hao; Liu, Chun-Xiao; Gazibegovic, Sasa Nature, Vol. 556, Issue 7699 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature26142	journal	March 2018
Demonstration of a quantum error detection code using a square lattice of four superconducting qubits Córcoles, A. D.; Magesan, Easwar; Srinivasan, Srikanth J. Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7979	journal	April 2015
Zero-bias peaks and splitting in an Al–InAs nanowire topological superconductor as a signature of Majorana fermions Das, Anindya; Ronen, Yuval; Most, Yonatan Nature Physics, Vol. 8, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2479	journal	November 2012
Superconducting gatemon qubit based on a proximitized two-dimensional electron gas Casparis, Lucas; Connolly, Malcolm R.; Kjaergaard, Morten Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 13, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0207-y	journal	July 2018
Improved superconducting qubit coherence using titanium nitride Chang, Josephine B.; Vissers, Michael R.; Córcoles, Antonio D. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4813269	journal	July 2013
Unpaired Majorana fermions in quantum wires Kitaev, A. Yu Physics-Uspekhi, Vol. 44, Issue 10S https://doi.org/10.1070/1063-7869/44/10S/S29	journal	October 2001
Fault-tolerant architectures for superconducting qubits DiVincenzo, David P. Physica Scripta, Vol. T137 https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/2009/T137/014020	journal	December 2009
Quantum transport in Rashba spin–orbit materials: a review Bercioux, Dario; Lucignano, Procolo Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 78, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/78/10/106001	journal	September 2015
Majorana box qubits Plugge, Stephan; Rasmussen, Asbjørn; Egger, Reinhold New Journal of Physics, Vol. 19, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa54e1	journal	January 2017
Basic circuit compilation techniques for an ion-trap quantum machine Maslov, Dmitri New Journal of Physics, Vol. 19, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa5e47	journal	February 2017
Cooper-pair splitting in two parallel InAs nanowires Baba, S.; Jünger, C.; Matsuo, S. New Journal of Physics, Vol. 20, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aac74e	journal	June 2018
Surface codes: Towards practical large-scale quantum computation Fowler, Austin G.; Mariantoni, Matteo; Martinis, John M. Physical Review A, Vol. 86, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.032324	journal	September 2012
Procedure for systematically tuning up cross-talk in the cross-resonance gate Sheldon, Sarah; Magesan, Easwar; Chow, Jerry M. Physical Review A, Vol. 93, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.060302	journal	June 2016
Tunable Superconducting Qubits with Flux-Independent Coherence Hutchings, M. D.; Hertzberg, J. B.; Liu, Y. Physical Review Applied, Vol. 8, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.8.044003	journal	October 2017
Fractionalization in Josephson junction arrays hinged by quantum spin Hall edges Xu, Cenke; Fu, Liang Physical Review B, Vol. 81, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.134435	journal	April 2010
Supercurrent blockade in Josephson junctions with a Majorana wire Zazunov, Alex; Egger, Reinhold Physical Review B, Vol. 85, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.104514	journal	March 2012
Superconducting qubit in a waveguide cavity with a coherence time approaching 0.1 ms Rigetti, Chad; Gambetta, Jay M.; Poletto, Stefano Physical Review B, Vol. 86, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.100506	journal	September 2012
Superconductor-nanowire devices from tunneling to the multichannel regime: Zero-bias oscillations and magnetoconductance crossover Churchill, H. O. H.; Fatemi, V.; Grove-Rasmussen, K. Physical Review B, Vol. 87, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.241401	journal	June 2013
Flux-controlled quantum computation with Majorana fermions Hyart, T.; van Heck, B.; Fulga, I. C. Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.035121	journal	July 2013
Teleportation-based quantum information processing with Majorana zero modes Vijay, Sagar; Fu, Liang Physical Review B, Vol. 94, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.235446	journal	December 2016
Scalable designs for quasiparticle-poisoning-protected topological quantum computation with Majorana zero modes Karzig, Torsten; Knapp, Christina; Lutchyn, Roman M. Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.235305	journal	June 2017
Josephson effect in multiterminal topological junctions Zazunov, A.; Egger, R.; Alvarado, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.024516	journal	July 2017
Anharmonicity of a superconducting qubit with a few-mode Josephson junction Kringhøj, A.; Casparis, L.; Hell, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 97, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.060508	journal	February 2018
Magnetic-field-dependent quasiparticle dynamics of nanowire single-Cooper-pair transistors van Veen, Jasper; Proutski, Alex; Karzig, Torsten Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.174502	journal	November 2018
Electron Teleportation via Majorana Bound States in a Mesoscopic Superconductor Fu, Liang Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.056402	journal	February 2010
Observation of High Coherence in Josephson Junction Qubits Measured in a Three-Dimensional Circuit QED Architecture Paik, Hanhee; Schuster, D. I.; Bishop, Lev S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.240501	journal	December 2011
Characterization of Addressability by Simultaneous Randomized Benchmarking Gambetta, Jay M.; Córcoles, A. D.; Merkel, S. T. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.240504	journal	December 2012
Entanglement Genesis by Ancilla-Based Parity Measurement in 2D Circuit QED Saira, O. -P.; Groen, J. P.; Cramer, J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.070502	journal	February 2014
Semiconductor-Nanowire-Based Superconducting Qubit Larsen, T. W.; Petersson, K. D.; Kuemmeth, F. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.127001	journal	September 2015
Realization of Microwave Quantum Circuits Using Hybrid Superconducting-Semiconducting Nanowire Josephson Elements de Lange, G.; van Heck, B.; Bruno, A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.127002	journal	September 2015
Demonstration of Weight-Four Parity Measurements in the Surface Code Architecture Takita, Maika; Córcoles, A. D.; Magesan, Easwar Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.210505	journal	November 2016
Scaling of Majorana Zero-Bias Conductance Peaks Nichele, Fabrizio; Drachmann, Asbjørn C. C.; Whiticar, Alexander M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.136803	journal	September 2017
Zero-Energy Modes from Coalescing Andreev States in a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrid Platform Suominen, H. J.; Kjaergaard, M.; Hamilton, A. R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.176805	journal	October 2017
Parity-Controlled 2 π Josephson Effect Mediated by Majorana Kramers Pairs Schrade, Constantin; Fu, Liang Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.267002	journal	June 2018
Selective-Area-Grown Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrids: A Basis for Topological Networks Vaitiekėnas, S.; Whiticar, A. M.; Deng, M. -T. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.147701	journal	October 2018
Field effect enhancement in buffered quantum nanowire networks Krizek, Filip; Sestoft, Joachim E.; Aseev, Pavel Physical Review Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.093401	journal	September 2018
Implementing and Characterizing Precise Multiqubit Measurements Blumoff, J. Z.; Chou, K.; Shen, C. Physical Review X, Vol. 6, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031041	journal	September 2016
Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices Mourik, V.; Zuo, K.; Frolov, S. M. Science, Vol. 336, Issue 6084 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1222360	journal	April 2012
Cavity grid for scalable quantum computation with superconducting circuits Helmer, F.; Mariantoni, M.; Fowler, A. G. EPL (Europhysics Letters), Vol. 85, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/85/50007	journal	March 2009
Quantum Interference Effects in InAs Semiconductor Nanowires Doh, Yong-Joo; Roest, Aarnoud L.; Bakkers, Erik P. A. M. Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 54, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.54.135	journal	January 2009
One-dimensional Weak Localization of Electrons in a Single InAs Nanowire Liang, Dong; Sakr, Mohammed R.; Gao, Xuan P. A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0904.2338	text	January 2009
Fault tolerant architectures for superconducting qubits DiVincenzo, David P. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0905.4839	text	January 2009
Electron Teleportation via Majorana Bound States in a Mesoscopic Superconductor Fu, Liang arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0909.5172	text	January 2009
Observation of high coherence in Josephson junction qubits measured in a three-dimensional circuit QED architecture Paik, Hanhee; Schuster, D. I.; Bishop, Lev S. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1105.4652	text	January 2011
State preservation by repetitive error detection in a superconducting quantum circuit Kelly, J.; Barends, R.; Fowler, A. G. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1411.7403	text	January 2014
Realization of microwave quantum circuits using hybrid superconducting-semiconducting nanowire Josephson elements de Lange, G.; van Heck, B.; Bruno, A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1503.08483	text	January 2015
Basic circuit compilation techniques for an ion-trap quantum machine Maslov, Dmitri arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1603.07678	text	January 2016
Demonstration of weight-four parity measurements in the surface code architecture Takita, Maika; Córcoles, A. D.; Magesan, Easwar arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1605.01351	text	January 2016
Zero-Energy Modes from Coalescing Andreev States in a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrid Platform Suominen, Henri J.; Kjaergaard, Morten; Hamilton, Alexander R. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1703.03699	text	January 2017
Epitaxy of Advanced Nanowire Quantum Devices Gazibegovic, Sasa; Car, Diana; Zhang, Hao arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1705.01480	text	January 2017
Josephson effect in multiterminal topological junctions Zazunov, A.; Egger, R.; Alvarado, M. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1706.05332	text	January 2017
Scaling of Majorana Zero-Bias Conductance Peaks Nichele, Fabrizio; Drachmann, Asbjorn C. C.; Whiticar, Alexander M. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1706.07033	text	January 2017
Quantized Majorana conductance Zhang, Hao; Liu, Chun-Xiao; Gazibegovic, Sasa arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1710.10701	text	January 2017
Superconducting Gatemon Qubit based on a Proximitized Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Casparis, Lucas; Connolly, Malcolm R.; Kjaergaard, Morten arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1711.07665	text	January 2017
Selective Area Grown Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrids: A Basis for Topological Networks Vaitiekėnas, S.; Whiticar, A. M.; Deng, M. T. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1802.04210	text	January 2018
Field effect enhancement in buffered quantum nanowire networks Krizek, Filip; Sestoft, Joachim E.; Aseev, Pavel arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1802.07808	text	January 2018

Cited By (6)

Building Blocks for Quantum Network Based on Group‐IV Split‐Vacancy Centers in Diamond Chen, Disheng; Zheludev, Nikolay; Gao, Wei‐bo Advanced Quantum Technologies, Vol. 3, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.201900069	journal	October 2019
Odd-frequency superconducting pairing in Kitaev-based junctions Tsintzis, Athanasios; Black-Schaffer, Annica M.; Cayao, Jorge Physical Review B, Vol. 100, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.115433	journal	September 2019
Flux-induced topological superconductor in planar Josephson junction Liu, Jie; Wu, Yijia; Sun, Qing-Feng Physical Review B, Vol. 100, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.235131	journal	December 2019
Measurement-only quantum computation with Floquet Majorana corner modes Bomantara, Raditya Weda; Gong, Jiangbin Physical Review B, Vol. 101, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.085401	journal	February 2020
Supercurrent Detection of Topologically Trivial Zero-Energy States in Nanowire Junctions Awoga, Oladunjoye A.; Cayao, Jorge; Black-Schaffer, Annica M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 123, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.117001	journal	September 2019
Flux-induced Topological Superconductor in Planar Josephson Junction Liu, Jie; Wu, Yijia; Sun, Qing-Feng arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1906.11504	text	January 2019

Similar Records

Quantum information processing with majorana bound states in superconducting circuits

Patent · Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · OSTI ID:1637844

Quantum Computing with Majorana Kramers Pairs

Journal Article · Tue Nov 22 19:00:00 EST 2022 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:2420887

SWAP Gate between a Majorana Qubit and a Parity-Protected Superconducting Qubit

Journal Article · Wed Oct 19 20:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:1963835

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Quantum Information Science (QIS)

Majorana Superconducting Qubit

Citation Formats

References (60)

Cited By (6)

Similar Records

Related Subjects