Floquet majorana fermions for topological qubits in superconducting devices and cold-atom systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Dong E ^a,b   Levchenko, Alex ^b   Baranger, Harold U ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; FLOQUET STATE; MAJORANA; PARAMETER SPACES; PARITY CONSERVATIONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUASI-ENERGY; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE;

TOPOLOGY;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 84880612685     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.047002     Document Type: Article

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