In condensed matter physics, the Kitaev chain is a simplified model for a topological superconductor. It models a one dimensional lattice featuring Majorana bound states. The Kitaev chain have been used as a toy model of semiconductor nanowires for the development of topological quantum computers.[1][2] The model was first proposed by Alexei Kitaev in 2000.[3]
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