%0 Journal Article %J Physical Review Letters %D 2015 %T Parafermionic zero modes in ultracold bosonic systems %A Mohammad F. Maghrebi %A Sriram Ganeshan %A David J. Clarke %A Alexey V. Gorshkov %A Jay D. Sau %X Exotic topologically protected zero modes with parafermionic statistics (also called fractionalized Majorana modes) have been proposed to emerge in devices fabricated from a fractional quantum Hall system and a superconductor. The fractionalized statistics of these modes takes them an important step beyond the simplest non-Abelian anyons, Majorana fermions. Building on recent advances towards the realization of fractional quantum Hall states of bosonic ultracold atoms, we propose a realization of parafermions in a system consisting of Bose-Einstein-condensate trenches within a bosonic fractional quantum Hall state. We show that parafermionic zero modes emerge at the endpoints of the trenches and give rise to a topologically protected degeneracy. We also discuss methods for preparing and detecting these modes. %B Physical Review Letters %V 115 %P 065301 %8 2015/08/06 %G eng %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04012v2 %N 6 %! Phys. Rev. Lett. %R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.065301