Abstract
It is proposed that in -wave superfluids of cold fermionic atoms with laser-field-generated effective spin-orbit interactions, a topological phase with gapless edge states and Majorana fermion quasiparticles obeying non-Abelian statistics is realized in the case with a large Zeeman magnetic field. Our scenario provides a promising approach to the realization of quantum computation based on the manipulation of non-Abelian anyons via an -wave Feshbach resonance.
- Received 30 January 2009
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.020401
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