Majorana Milestones

Speaker: 
Jason Alicea
Institution: 
Caltech
Date: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Time: 
4:00 pm
Location: 
NS2 1201

Abstract:  

Abstract: The search for condensed-matter analogues of Majorana fermions is now well underway, motivated by both the prospects of revealing new facets of quantum mechanics and longer-term quantum computing applications.  This talk will survey recent advances in this pursuit. In particular, I will describe strategies for "engineering" Majorana platforms from simple building blocks, preliminary experimental successes, and future milestones that reveal foundational aspects of Majorana physics directly relevant for quantum computation.

Host: 
Jing Xia