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Demonstrating Entanglement By Testing Bell's Theorem In Majorana Wires, David E. Drummond, Alexey Kovalev, Chang-Yu Hou, Kirill Shtengel, Leonid P. Pryadko
Demonstrating Entanglement By Testing Bell's Theorem In Majorana Wires, David E. Drummond, Alexey Kovalev, Chang-Yu Hou, Kirill Shtengel, Leonid P. Pryadko
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We propose an experiment that would establish the entanglement of Majorana zero modes in semiconductor nanowires by testing the Bell and Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequalities. Our proposal is viable with realistic system parameters, simple “keyboard” gating, and projective measurement. Theoretical models and simulation results indicate entanglement can be demonstrated with moderately accurate gate operations. In addition to providing further evidence for the existence of the Majorana bound states, our proposal could be used as an experimental stepping stone to more complicated braiding experiments.
Parafermion Stabilizer Codes, Utkan Güngördü, Rabindra Nepal, Alexey Kovalev
Parafermion Stabilizer Codes, Utkan Güngördü, Rabindra Nepal, Alexey Kovalev
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We define and study parafermion stabilizer codes, which can be viewed as generalizations of Kitaev’s onedimensional (1D) model of unpaired Majorana fermions. Parafermion stabilizer codes can protect against lowweight errors acting on a small subset of parafermion modes in analogy to qudit stabilizer codes. Examples of several smallest parafermion stabilizer codes are given. A locality-preserving embedding of qudit operators into parafermion operators is established that allows one to map known qudit stabilizer codes to parafermion codes. We also present a local 2D parafermion construction that combines topological protection of Kitaev’s toric code with additional protection relying on parity conservation.
Numerical Techniques For Finding The Distances Of Quantum Codes, Ilya Dumer, Alexey Kovalev, Leonid P. Pryadko
Numerical Techniques For Finding The Distances Of Quantum Codes, Ilya Dumer, Alexey Kovalev, Leonid P. Pryadko
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We survey the existing techniques for calculating code distances of classical codes and apply these techniques to generic quantum codes. For classical and quantum LDPC codes, we also present a new linked-cluster technique. It reduces complexity exponent of all existing deterministic techniques designed for codes with small relative distances (which include all known families of quantum LDPC codes), and also surpasses the probabilistic technique for sufficiently high code rates.