nLab Sankar Das Sarma

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Selected writings

Proposing nanowire experiments potentially realizing Majorana zero modes:

• Roman M. Lutchyn, Jay D. Sau, Sankar Das Sarma, Majorana Fermions and a Topological Phase Transition in Semiconductor-Superconductor Heterostructures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 077001 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.077001]

On anyons in application to quantum computation:

• Chetan Nayak, Steven H. Simon, Ady Stern, Michael Freedman, Sankar Das Sarma, Non-Abelian Anyons and Topological Quantum Computation, Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1083 (2008) (arXiv:0707.1888)

On the adiabaticity of topological quantum computation by braiding of defect anyons:

• Meng Cheng, Victor Galitski, Sankar Das Sarma, Non-adiabatic Effects in the Braiding of Non-Abelian Anyons in Topological Superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 84 (2011) 104529 $[$arXiv:1106.2549, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.104529$]$

On topological quantum computation with anyons in topological superconductors (Majorana zero modes):

• Sankar Das Sarma, Michael Freedman, Chetan Nayak, Majorana Zero Modes and Topological Quantum Computation, npj Quantum Information 1, 15001 (2015) (nature:npjqi20151)

• Meng Cheng, Victor Galitski, Sankar Das Sarma, Non-adiabatic Effects in the Braiding of Non-Abelian Anyons in Topological Superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 84, 104529 (2011) (arXiv:1106.2549)

On the need for topological quantum computation in quantum computation:

• Sankar Das Sarma, Quantum computing has a hype problem, MIT Technology Review (March 2022)

  The qubit systems we have today are a tremendous scientific achievement, but they take us no closer to having a quantum computer that can solve a problem that anybody cares about. $[\cdots]$ What is missing is the breakthrough $[\cdots]$ bypassing quantum error correction by using far-more-stable qubits, in an approach called topological quantum computing.

On the prospect of detecting Majorana zero modes:

• Sankar Das Sarma, In search of Majorana, Nature Physics 19 (2023) 165-170 [arXiv:2210.17365, doi:10.1038/s41567-022-01900-9]

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