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• W2153911700 abstract "Having not been verified in experiments yet, the concept of Majorana fermions was originally hypothesized in 1937 to describe the spin-1/2 particles that are their own antiparticles, in contrast to Dirac fermions [1], which differ from their antiparticles and covermost of wellknown fermions including quarks, leptons, electrons and their antiparticles. The different properties of these two classes of fermions are the mathematical consequence of modification that Majorana did to Dirac’s equation in depicting the spin-1/2 particles. After the modification, the imaginary numbers indispensable to understand antiparticles inDirac’s equation canbe abandoned and thus only real numbers are involved in Majorana’s equation. Recently, Majorana fermions have attracted a great deal of interest in condensedmatter physics, mainly because of their non-Abelian statistics that can be utilized for fault-tolerant quantum computing [2,3]. Theoretical investigations suggest that some exotic fermionic quasiparticles in a variety of solid state matters, such as the fractional quantum Hall state at filling factor of 5/2, ultra-cold atoms and chiral p-wave superconductors, should be identical to their antiquasiparticles and thus be Majorana fermions. In an Abrikosov vortex core of a superconductor, for example, the electron and hole excitations within the superconducting gap , i.e. the Andreev bound states, play the role of particle and antiparticle. The Majorana fermion comes out of the equal superposition of an electron (filled state at energy E above the Fermi level, EF) and a hole (empty state at energy –E below EF) excited exactly at the Fermi level, i.e. the Andreev bound state atE= 0. In a usual s-wave superconductor, where Cooper pairs have orbital angular momentum 0 and the electrons obey a Schrodinger-like, nonrelativistic equation, such a zero energy excitation is strictly forbidden and the lowest bound state is at E ∼ /2EF. In contrast, the zero mode Majorana particle is predicted to occur if the Cooper pairs have orbital angular momentum 1 (px ± ipy-wave). Majorana fermions in condensedmatters occur always in pair, whose superposition forms a conventional fermion, such as an electron or a hole. What scientists are chasing to discover are Majorana fermions that are spatially separated and thus prevented from overlapping. Such a highly delocalized pair of Majorana fermions forma fermionic state that can be protected from most types of decoherence, since a local perturbation may affect only one Majorana fermion of the pair. This topologically protected fermionic state can be used to store quantum information as a qubit and manipulated by physical exchange of the Majorana fermions basedon their non-Abelian statistics. Actually, the object showing non-Abelian statistics, i.e. an Ising anyon referred in the literature on topological quantum computation, is not the Majorana fermion by itself, but a topological defect hosting a Majorana fermion, such as an Abrikosov vortex of a px ± ipy-wave superconductor. Unfortunately, px ± ipy-wave superconductors in nature are not easily available, so the boom in searching for Majorana fermions in condensed matters had not come until 2008, when Fu and Kane at University of Pennsylvania theoretically proposed realistic proximity effect induced superconductivity in a strong topological insulator by combining it with an ordinary s-wave superconductor [4]. In this engineered superconductor, Cooper pairs are induced to the topological surface state via proximity effect, so that zero energy Andreev bound states at the vortex cores can occur. This is because the electrons in the normal state obey a Dirac-like equation and have their spin and momentum locked, so that a closed orbit produces a phase shift of π from the 360o rotation of the spin. This additional Berry phase converts destructive interference at E = 0 into constructive interference and thus results in a Majorana fermion at the Abrikosov vortex core. Here, the necessary underlying physical ingredient is the strong spin–orbit coupling that gives rise to an odd number of bands with momentumdependent spin crossing EF. Inspired by this idea, other proximity-induced superconductors were proposed using semiconductor nanowires and/or quantum wells with a strong spin–orbit coupling, in which Kramer’s degeneracy is lifted by Zeeman splitting due to an external magnetic field or amagnetic insulator in proximity [5–7]. Following the rapid theoretical developments, a number of experimental groups have taken up the challenge to create Majorana fermions by constructing the artificial p-wave-like superconductors. Last year, owing to welldeveloped nanoscale fabrication technology, Kouwenhoven’s group at Delft University of Technology succeeded in" @default.
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• W2153911700 title "Creating Majorana fermions in topological insulators" @default.
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