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Scaling up a sign-ordered Kitaev chain without magnetic flux control

Chun-Xiao Liu*, Sebastian Miles, Alberto Bordin, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Grzegorz P. Mazur, A. Mert Bozkurt, and Michael Wimmer

  • *Contact author: chunxiaoliu62@gmail.com
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Phys. Rev. Research 7, L012045 – Published 27 February, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.L012045

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Quantum-dot-superconductor arrays have emerged as a new and promising material platform for realizing topological Kitaev chains. So far, experiments have implemented a two-site chain with limited protection. Here, we propose an experimentally feasible protocol for scaling up the chain in order to enhance the protection of the Majorana zero modes. To this end, we make use of the fact that the relative sign of normal and superconducting hoppings mediated by an Andreev bound state can be changed by electrostatic gates. In this way, our method only relies on the use of individual electrostatic gates on hybrid regions, quantum dots, and tunnel barriers, respectively, without the need for individual magnetic flux control, greatly simplifying the device design. Our work provides guidance for realizing a topologically protected Kitaev chain, which is the building block of error-resilient topological quantum computation.

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Phys. Rev. Research 7, L012045– Published 27 February, 2025
  • Received 27 July 2024
  • Accepted 17 January 2025
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