Majorana fermions qubit states and non-Abelian braiding statistics in quenched inhomogeneous spin ladders

In studying Majorana fermions (MFs) in a spin ladder model, we numerically show that their qubit state can be read out by measuring fusion excitations in quenched inhomogeneous spin ladders. We construct an exactly solvable T-junction spin ladder model that can be used to implement MF braid operations. With braiding simulated numerically as nonequilibrium quench processes, we verify that the MFs in our spin ladder model obey non-Abelian braiding statistics. Our scheme provides a promising platform to study exotic properties of MFs and a broad range of applications in topological quantum computation.