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Non-Abelian holonomy in a chaotic Majorana billiard

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Abstract

A ``Majorana billiard'' consists of a chaotic cavity coupled to a topological superconductor via tunneling contacts. In the limit of zero transmission, each of these contacts hosts a Majorana zero mode. Close to a cavity resonance and at a finite contact transparency, the resonant mode couples the Majorana modes, but a ground state degeneracy per fermion parity subspace remains if the number of Majorana modes coupled to the cavity exceeds five. Upon varying shape-defining gate voltages while remaining close to resonance, a nontrivial evolution within the degenerate ground-state manifold can be achieved. We characterize the corresponding non-Abelian holonomy using random matrix theory and discuss measurable signatures of the non-Abelian time-evolution.

Presenters

  • Max Geier

    University of Copenhagen

Authors

  • Max Geier

    University of Copenhagen

  • Svend Krøjer

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Felix von Oppen

    Freie Universita¨t Berlin, Freie Universitaet Berlin, FU Berlin, The Free University of Berlin

  • Karsten Flensberg

    Univ of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen

  • Piet Brouwer

    Freie Universitaet Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin