Inhomogeneous superconductors can host electronic excitations, known as Andreev bound
states (ABSs), below the superconducting energy gap. With the advent of topological …

Majorana fermions (particles that are their own antiparticle) may or may not exist in nature as
elementary building blocks, but in condensed matter they can be constructed out of electron …

Inherent symmetry of a quantum system may protect its otherwise fragile states. Leveraging
such protection requires testing its robustness against uncontrolled environmental …

Topological superconductors are novel classes of quantum condensed phases,
characterized by topologically nontrivial structures of Cooper pairing states. On the surfaces …

This short review paper provides a pedagogical introduction to the rapidly growing research
field of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors. We first discuss in some detail the …

This review presents an entry-level introduction to topological quantum computation--
quantum computing with anyons. We introduce anyons at the system-independent level of …

Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

We uncover a topological classification applicable to open fermionic systems governed by a
general class of Lindblad master equations. These “quadratic Lindbladians” can be …

Topological states of fermionic matter can be induced by means of a suitably engineered
dissipative dynamics. Dissipation then does not occur as a perturbation, but rather as the …

We consider the problem of quasiparticle poisoning in a nanowire-based realization of a
Majorana qubit, where a spin-orbit-coupled semiconducting wire is placed on top of a (bulk) …