%0 Journal Article
%T Probing Atomic Majorana Fermions in Optical Lattices
%A Christina V. Kraus
%A Sebastian Diehl
%A Peter Zoller
%A Mikhail A. Baranov
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113036
%X We introduce a one-dimensional system of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice whose phase diagram includes topological states of different symmetry classes. These states can be identified by their zero-energy edge modes which are Majorana fermions. We propose several universal methods of detecting the Majorana edge states, based on their genuine features: zero-energy, localized character of the wave functions, and induced non-local fermionic correlations.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3253v2