Signatures of Majorana protection in a three-site Kitaev chain
arXiv:2402.19382 · doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01894-4
Abstract
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are non-Abelian excitations predicted to emerge at the edges of topological superconductors. One proposal for realizing a topological superconductor in one dimension involves a chain of spinless fermions, coupled through -wave superconducting pairing and electron hopping. This concept is also known as the Kitaev chain. A minimal two-site Kitaev chain has recently been experimentally realized using quantum dots (QDs) coupled through a superconductor. In such a minimal chain, MZMs are quadratically protected against global perturbations of the QD electrochemical potentials. However, they are not protected from perturbations of the inter-QD couplings. In this work, we demonstrate that extending the chain to three sites offers greater protection than the two-site configuration. The enhanced protection is evidenced by the stability of the zero-energy modes, which is robust against variations in both the coupling amplitudes and the electrochemical potential variations in the constituent QDs. While our device offers all the desired control of the couplings it does not allow for superconducting phase control. Our experimental observations are in good agreement with numerical simulated conductances with phase averaging. Our work pioneers the development of longer Kitaev chains, a milestone towards topological protection in QD-based chains.
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