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What is the importance of the Fermi energy $E_F$ or the chem. potential $\mu$ for topological superconductors
A lot of effort is put into shifting the Fermi energy of a topological insulator to exactly zero which then provides some advantages when this TI is coupled with a superconductor.
I don't understand ...
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How is a Majorana fermion created when a s-wave superconductors is in proximity to a topological insulator (e.g. via an antidot)
Kane and Fu proposed a few geometries how to create Majorana zero modes using a s-wave superconductor in proximity to a 3D topological insulator (TI).
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What is a $p_x + i p_y$ superconductor? Relation to topological superconductors
I often read about s-wave and p-wave superconductors. In particular a $p_x + i p_y$
superconductor - often mentioned in combination with topological superconductors.
I understand that the overall ...
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Basic questions in Majorana fermions
Why any fermion can be written as a combination of two Majorana fermions? Is there any physical meaning in it? Why Majorana fermion can be used for topological quantum computation?
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Why is the majorana particle a fermion?
My knowledge of quantum mechanics is rather limited, but what I always understood was that Bosons have integer spins and Fermions have half-integer spins.
My question is very simple: the Majorana ...
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Neutrino mass with Dirac and Majorana
Why both Dirac mass and Majorana mass terms are needed to explain the mass of a neutrino?
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How can one know if one has a Majorana fermion?
If the Majorana fermion is a fermion that is it's own antiparticle and exactly the same as its fermion counterpart, then how do they know that it's not just a fermion?
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How is this a condition for a Majorana zero mode?
EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out. When you apply the expression on a state, you can clearly see what it does: The new state created by applying the Majorana operators must have the same energy as the ...
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Majorana particles statistics
What is the influence of Hermitian condition ($\gamma=\gamma^{\dagger}$) of Majorana fermions operators in their statistical behavior?
A Majorana fermion gas must obey the Fermi-Dirac statistics, or ...
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Which symmetric pure qudit states can be reached within local operations?
There are two pure symmetric states $|\psi\rangle$ and $|\phi\rangle$ of $n$ qudits. Is there any known set of invariants $\{I_i:i\in\{1,\ldots,k\}\}$ which is equal for both states iff ...
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Is there a Majorana-like representation for singlet states?
I mean the Majorana representation of symmetric states, i.e., states of $n$ qubits invariant under a permutation of the qudits. See, for example, D. Markham, "Entanglement and symmetry in permutation ...
