TY - JOUR AU - Pedrocchi, Fabio L. AU - DiVincenzo, David TI - Majorana Braiding with Thermal Noise JO - Physical review letters VL - 115 IS - 12 SN - 1079-7114 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - FZJ-2015-06721 SP - 120402 PY - 2015 N1 - 6 pages, 3 figures, long version: arXiv: 1507.00892 AB - We investigate the self-correcting properties of a network of Majorana wires, in the form of a trijunction, in contact with a parity-preserving thermal environment. As opposed to the case where Majorana bound states (MBSs) are immobile, braiding MBSs within a trijunction introduces dangerous error processes that we identify. Such errors prevent the lifetime of the memory from increasing with the size of the system. We confirm our predictions with Monte Carlo simulations. Our findings put a restriction on the degree of self-correction of this specific quantum computing architecture. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000361315300002 C6 - pmid:26430973 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.120402 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/276258 ER -