Manipulating the Majorana Qubit with the Landau-Zener-St\"{u}ckelberg Interference

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference can be used to control and perform high-speed single-qubit gates on Majorana qubits within a topological nanowire Josephson junction, advancing topological quantum computing.

Contribution

It introduces a method to manipulate Majorana qubits using flux pulses to induce controllable Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference, enabling high-speed quantum gates.

Findings

Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference can rotate Majorana qubits.

Flux pulses around superconducting flux quanta control qubit operations.

The method enables fast, controllable single-qubit gates for topological quantum computing.

Abstract

Constructing a universal operation scheme for Majorana qubits remains a central issue for the topological quantum computation. We study the Landau-Zener-St\"{u}ckelberg interference in a Majorana qubit and show that this interference can be used to achieve controllable operations. The Majorana qubit consists of an rf SQUID with a topological nanowire Josephson junction which hosts Majorana bound states. In the SQUID, a magnetic flux pulse can drive the quantum evolution of the Majorana qubit. The qubit experiences two Landau-Zener transitions when the amplitude of the pulse is tuned around the superconducting flux quanta $2e/\hbar$. The Landau-Zener-St\"{u}ckelberg interference between the two transitions rotates the Majorana qubit, with the angle controlled by the time scale of the pulse. This rotation operation implements a high-speed single-qubit gate on the Majorana qubit, which is a necessary ingredient for the topological quantum computation.