Verifying non-Abelian statistics by numerical braiding Majorana fermions

Abstract

Recently, Majorana fermions have attracted intensive attention because of their possible non-Abelian statistics and potential applications in topological quantum computation. This paper describes an approach to verify the non-Abelian statistics of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors. From the relationship between the braiding operator of Majorana fermions and that of Bogoliubov–de Gennes states, we determine that Majorana fermions in one-dimensional and two-dimensional topological superconductors both obey non-Abelian statistics.