Title
Proposal for realization of the Majorana equation in a tabletop experiment
Author
BLAS MANUEL RODRIGUEZ LARA
Access level
Open Access
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Summary or description
We introduce the term Majoranon to describe particles that obey the Majorana equation, which are different from the Majorana fermions widely studied in various physical systems. A general procedure to simulate the corresponding Majoranon dynamics, based on a decomposition of the Majorana equation into two Dirac equations, is described in detail. It allows the simulation of the two-component chiral spinors, the building blocks of modern gauge theories, in the laboratory with current technology. Specifically, a Majoranon in one spatial dimension can be simulated with a single qubit plus a continuous degree of freedom, for example, a single trapped ion. Interestingly, the dynamics of a Majoranon deviates most clearly from that of a Dirac particle in the rest frame, in which the continuous variable is redundant, making a possible laboratory implementation feasible with existing setups.
Publisher
PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Publish date
April 3, 2013
Publication type
Article
Publication version
Accepted Version
Information Resource
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Audience
Students
Researchers
General public
Citation suggestion
Noh, Changsuk., et al., (2013). Proposal for realization of the Majorana equation in a tabletop experiment, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 87(4):1-5
Source repository
Repositorio Institucional del INAOE
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