Universal topological quantum computation from a superconductor-abelian quantum hall heterostructure

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mong, Roger S K ^a   Clarke, David J ^a   Alicea, Jason ^a   Lindner, Netanel H ^a,b   Fendley, Paul ^c   Nayak, Chetan ^d   Oreg, Yuval ^e   Stern, Ady ^e   Berg, Erez ^e   Shtengel, Kirill ^f,g   Fisher, Matthew P A ^d  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Quantum information; Strongly correlated materials

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; GROUND STATE; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TOPOLOGY;

CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS; DECOHERENCE; EXOTIC PARTICLES; NON-ABELIAN ANYONS; QUANTA COMPUTERS; QUANTUM HALL; QUANTUM HALL STATE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SIMPLE++; STRONGLY CORRELATED MATERIALS;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

EID: 84900320832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011036     Document Type: Article

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