title: "Wormhole" geometry for entrapping topologically protected qubits in non-abelian quantum hall states and probing them with voltage and noise measurements.
abstract: We study a tunneling geometry defined by a single point-contact constriction that brings to close vicinity two points sitting at the same edge of a quantum Hall liquid, shortening the trip between the otherwise spatially separated points along the normal chiral edge path. This wormhole-like geometry allows for entrapping bulk quasiparticles between the edge path and the tunnel junction, possibly realizing a topologically protected qubit if the quasiparticles have non-Abelian statistics. We show how either noise or simpler voltage measurements along the edge can probe the non-Abelian nature of the trapped quasiparticles.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Chang-Yu
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chamon