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Creation of isolated Majorana fermions, the simplest type of non-Abelian anyons, in one out of many superconductor-semiconductor hybrid systems seems reachable within a few years time. I will introduce a scheme for manipulation of Majorana fermions using existent superconducting circuits, namely transmon qubits. Within this framework I will consider in particular the minimal setup required to measure the unusual properties of Majorana fermions, and a possible implementation of a scalable quantum computer that relies on the topological properties of Majorana fermions.

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Anton Akhmerov, TU Delft
Seminar Room of the Institute of Physics II (R201)
Contact: Simon Trebst