Non-Abelian Majorana fermions in topological s-wave Fermi superfluids

Abstract

By solving the Bogoliubov–de Gennes equations analytically, we derive the fermionic zero-modes satisfying the Majorana property that exist in vortices of a two-dimensional s -wave Fermi superfluid with spin–orbit coupling and Zeeman spin-splitting. The Majorana zero-mode becomes normalisable and exponentially localised to the vicinity of the vortex core when the superfluid is topologically non-trivial. We calculate the energy splitting due to Majorana hybridisation and identify that the s -wave Majorana vortices obey non-Abelian statistics.

Keywords

• Majorana fermions
• Fermi superfluid
• topological quantum computation
• topological superfluidity