Topological superconductors for robust quantum computation

Project funded by Swedish Research Council (Project grant), grant 2014-03721_VR. Participating organisations named by the source: Stockholm University. Funded amount: SEK 3,500,000, as stated by the source. Runs 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31. Keywords: Naturvetenskap, Natural Sciences, Fysik, Physical Sciences, Den kondenserade materiens fysik, Condensed Matter Physics. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2025-12-06); national funding data, not CORDIS. Abstract given by the source: Topological superconductors (TSCs) are a newly discovered class of superconductors with features uniquely advantageous for quantum computing. They have recently raised an immense amount of attention due to the possibility of them hosting Majorana fermion quasiparticles at surfaces, vortices, and other defects. Approximately one can say that a Majorana fermion quasiparticle is half an electron, or more accurately, in a material with Majorana fermions the wave function of an electron has split up into two separate parts. This non-local property of two Majorana fermions can be used for exceptionally fault-tolerant quantum computing, where disorder and decoherence, currently severely hampering quantum computation, is automatically rendered unimportant. The goal of this project is to theoretically discover new and experimentally viable TSCs with Majorana fermions and to determine the properties of the Majorana fermions, aiming at future topological quantum computation applications. The project focuses both on the currently most promising proposals for TSCs found in superconducting hybrid structures of well-known spin-orbit coupled materials and on discovering new experimentally feasible TSCs in graphene-like materials. The project will generate new fundamental understanding of the superconducting state and its accompanied Majorana fermions and establish, in close collaboration with several experimental groups, the properties of Majorana fermions in real materials.

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AI-assisted summary: The project "Topological superconductors for robust quantum computation" was funded by the Swedish Research Council with SEK 3,500,000 from 2015 to 2018, involving Stockholm University. It focuses on topological superconductors and their potential for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Suggested technology pillar: computing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.