Proposing one-sided tetrons as topological qubits for Majorana-based quantum computation
Abstract
One-dimensional SM-SC hybrid nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and applied Zeeman field can support Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at the ends of the wire. In finite-length systems, residual wave-function overlap between the end modes produces an energy splitting. In a two-sided tetron qubit, composed of a pair of parallel Majorana wires coupled by a trivial SC backbone in the middle, this splitting limits the parity lifetime associated with Majorana pairs involving both wires and the coherence of the qubit, adversely affecting measurement-based braiding and readout operations. Here, we propose a one-sided tetron made of four parallel Majorana wires connected at a common end by an SC backbone. In the topological phase, the free wire ends host four MZMs that define the topological qubit, while the Majoranas localized near the opposite ends hybridize through the backbone and acquire finite energy. To study the basic hybridization mechanism, we consider a simpler two-wire subsystem, i.e., half of a one-sided tetron, which we call a doublon. In a doublon, the backbone, or bridge, strongly hybridizes the two Majorana modes at the connected end and shifts them away from zero energy, while the modes at the free ends form a near-zero energy fermion. We show that the splitting of the surviving MZM pair can fall by about two orders of magnitude compared to the splitting energies in a two-sided tetron, thereby dramatically increasing the parity lifetimes. Thus, the one-sided tetron ensures a suppression of the Majorana overlap comparable to doubling the length of the corresponding two-sided tetron.
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BibTeX
@misc{stanescu2026proposing,
title = {{Proposing one-sided tetrons as topological qubits for Majorana-based quantum computation}},
author = {Tudor D. Stanescu and Sumanta Tewari},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.07169},
eprint = {2610.07169},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07169},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Proposing one-sided tetrons as topological qubits for Majorana-based quantum computation
AU - Tudor D. Stanescu
AU - Sumanta Tewari
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.07169
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07169
AB - One-dimensional SM-SC hybrid nanowires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and applied Zeeman field can support Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at the ends of the wire. In finite-length systems, residual wave-function overlap between the end modes produces an energy splitting. In a two-sided tetron qubit, composed of a pair of parallel Majorana wires coupled by a trivial SC backbone in the middle, this splitting limits the parity lifetime associated with Majorana pairs involving both wires and the coherence of the qubit, adversely affecting measurement-based braiding and readout operations. Here, we propose a one-sided tetron made of four parallel Majorana wires connected at a common end by an SC backbone. In the topological phase, the free wire ends host four MZMs that define the topological qubit, while the Majoranas localized near the opposite ends hybridize through the backbone and acquire finite energy. To study the basic hybridization mechanism, we consider a simpler two-wire subsystem, i.e., half of a one-sided tetron, which we call a doublon. In a doublon, the backbone, or bridge, strongly hybridizes the two Majorana modes at the connected end and shifts them away from zero energy, while the modes at the free ends form a near-zero energy fermion. We show that the splitting of the surviving MZM pair can fall by about two orders of magnitude compared to the splitting energies in a two-sided tetron, thereby dramatically increasing the parity lifetimes. Thus, the one-sided tetron ensures a suppression of the Majorana overlap comparable to doubling the length of the corresponding two-sided tetron.
ER -