Demonstrating nonlocality induced teleportation through Majorana bound states in a semiconductor nanowire

Peiyue Wang, Yunshan Cao, Ming Gong, Shu-Shen Li, Xin-Qi Li

Published 2012-08-18, updated 2013-12-13Version 2

It was predicted by Tewari [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 027001 (2008)] that a teleportationlike electron transfer phenomenon is one of the novel consequences of the existence of Majorana fermion, because of the inherently nonlocal nature. In this work we consider a concrete realization and measurement scheme for this interesting behavior, based on a setup consisting of a pair of quantum dots which are tunnel-coupled to a semiconductor nanowire and are jointly measured by two point-contact detectors. We analyze the teleportation dynamics in the presence of measurement backaction and discuss how the teleportation events can be identified from the current trajectories of strong response detectors.