• Accepted Paper

Distinct lifetimes for X and Z loop measurements in a Majorana tetron device

Morteza Aghaee et al.

Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 1 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/cx4w-lxx1

Abstract

We present a hardware realization and measurements of a tetron qubit device in a superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure. The device architecture contains two parallel superconducting nanowires, which support four Majorana zero modes (MZMs) when tuned into the topological phase, and a trivial superconducting backbone. Two distinct readout interferometers are formed by connecting the superconducting structure to a series of quantum dots. We perform single-shot interferometric measurements of the fermion parity for the two loops, designed to implement Pauli-X and Z measurements of the tetron. Performing repeated single-shot measurements yields two widely separated time scales $\tauX = \SI{14.5\pm 0.3}{\micro\second}$ and $\tauZ = \SI{12.4\pm 0.4}{\milli\second}$ for parity switches observed in the X and Z measurement loops, which we attribute to intra-wire parity switches and external quasiparticle poisoning, respectively. We estimate assignment errors of $\errXa = 16\%$ and $\errZa = 0.5\%$ for X and Z measurement-based operations, respectively.

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