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Abstract Protecting qubits from noise is essential for building reliable quantum computers. Topological qubits offer a route to this goal by encoding quantum information non-locally, using pairs of Majorana zero modes. These modes form a shared fermionic state whose occupation—either even or odd—defines the fermionic parity that encodes the qubit1. Notably, this parity can only be accessed by a measurement that couples two Majoranas to each other.

Popular Summary The performance of quantum computers is fundamentally limited by the decoherence time of their qubits—the period that allows for reliable processing of quantum information. Qubits based on Majorana zero modes are expected to show little decoherence, as they provide a way of nonlocally distributing quantum information. In these qubits, the information is encoded into the parity of the system, which refers to the total number of electrons being odd or even.

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