Stabilization and control of Majorana bound states with elongated skyrmions

Utkan Güngördü, Shane Sandhoefner, Alexey A. Kovalev

Published 2017-10-11Version 1

We show that elongated magnetic skyrmions can host Majorana bound states in a proximity-coupled two-dimensional electron gas sandwiched between a chiral magnet and an $s$-wave superconductor. Our proposal requires stable skyrmions with unit topological charge, which can be realized in a wide range of multilayer magnets, and allows quantum information transfer by using standard methods in spintronics via skyrmion motion. We also show how braiding operations can be realized in our proposal.