Fractionalizing majorana fermions: Non-abelian statistics on the edges of abelian quantum hall states

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lindner, Netanel H ^a,b   Berg, Erez ^c   Refael, Gil ^b   Stern, Ady ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Superconductivity; Topological insulators

Indexed keywords

BRAID GROUPS; COUNTERPROPAGATING; EDGE COUPLED; FERROMAGNETS; FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL STATE; MAJORANA; NON-ABELIAN STATISTICS; PROXIMITY COUPLINGS; QUANTUM DIMENSION; QUANTUM HALL STATE; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS; SPIN DIRECTION; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; UNITARY TRANSFORMATIONS;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 84870195746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041002     Document Type: Article

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