We establish color codes as providing a natural setting in which advantages offered by topological hardware can be combined with those arising from topological error-correcting software for full-fledged fault-tolerant quantum computing. Most importantly, color codes have a set of transversal gates which coincides with the set of topologically protected gates in Majorana-based systems, namely the Clifford gates. We illustrate our scheme by providing a complete description of a possible architecture based on topological superconductor networks.

D. Litinski, M. S. Kesselring, J. Eisert, F. von Oppen, Combining Topological Hardware and Topological Software: Color Code Quantum Computing with Topological Superconductor Networks, arXiv:1704.01589 (2017)