Proposal of a Majorana-qubit cryptography on the grounds of the leakage effect and bound states in the continuum

2017 
Firstly predicted theoretically in PRB $89$, $165314$ $(2014)$, followed by experimental acknowledgment in Science $354$, $6319$ $(2016)$, the leakage of the Majorana fermion (MF) zero-mode into a quantum dot (QD), as a matter of fact, consists in a manner of revealing such a peculiar quasiparticle. Based on this effect, we propose a quantum cryptography protocol regarding a MF-qubit as elemental building block to this end. Thus, we account for a topological Kitaev chain symmetrically connected to a double QD set, where two counterintuitive scenarios rise: i) the possibility of recording a decrypted MF-qubit solely localized at one QD, which arises from an unexpected asymmetrical leakage of the MF state into the pair of QDs and ii) the corresponding encrypted qubit appears recorded when symmetrical leakage is finally fulfilled, staying unperceived by electronic transmission, surprisingly due to the bound states in the continuum nature of the leaked MF zero-mode equally split at two sites apart. In this way, we claim that the invisibility characteristic of BICs, from electronic transport perspective, then allows the performing of the proposed cryptography. Hence, our findings pave the way for future quantum cryptography assisted by MFs.
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