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Quantum Computer

01 /Quantum Computers 02 /How to build a qubit 03 /Spin qubits (beginner level) 04 /Operations on spin qubits (beginner level) 05 /Electron spin qubits 06 /Capturing a single electron 07 /Quantum dot qubits 08 /Quantum control and readout 09 /Qubit errors 10 /NV center qubits 11 /Operations on NV center qubits 12 /The Transmon Qubit - A basis for the Quantum Computer 13 /Operations on the Transmon Qubit - Circuit QED 14 /Single-qubit operations on the Transmon qubit 15 /Measurements on the Transmon Qubit 16 /Two-qubit operations on the Transmon qubit 17 /Topological qubits: Anyons 18 /Operations on anyons: Braiding 19 /Operations on anyons: Real-life experiments 20 /Topological quantum computing: Majorana fermions and where to find them 21 /Majorana bound states in superconductors 22 /How do you measure Majorana bound states? 23 /A framework for the future Quantum Computer 24 /The Building Blocks of a Quantum Computer 25 /How to build a Quantum Algorithm - Quantum Circuits 26 /How do you program a quantum algorithm? 27 /The compiler of a quantum computer 28 /Micro-architectures 29 /How do we connect our quantum system to a classical interface? 30 /Assembling a Quantum Processor 31 /Microwave drivers for qubits 32 /Implementation of microwave drivers 33 /Quantum error correction 34 /Surface codes 35 /Fault-tolerant Quantum Error Correction with surface codes

How do you measure Majorana bound states?

If you just started looking into Majorana bound states, you may already know how and when these states can occur in superconductors. However, you might wonder how you can actually measure whether you have succeeded in creating those states!

In this video, Michael Wimmer will explain how Andreev reflection in superconductors helps us to measure Majorana bound states. Furthermore, Michael discusses a few experimental papers that show significant progress in this field. Did you, for example, know that Majoranas only appear at a finite magnetic field? Find out more in the video!

Prerequisite knowledge

Update: The Quantized Majorana Conductance (2018) paper that Michael mentions at the end of the video has been retracted and the authors have published a new paper with a different interpretation of the results.

Further Thinking

Can you name what ingredients are required in order to have Majorana zero modes?

Solution

Further reading 

Take a look at the actual publications of the work presented in this video: