[quantum-info] Joint CMT/PIQuDos seminar on Wed Mar 19: Roger Mong

[Gus Gutoski]

Reminder: CMT/PIQuDos seminar by Roger Mong tomorrow at 16:00 in the Time
room.  -Gus


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Gus Gutoski <
ggutoski at perimeterinstitute.ca> wrote:

> The topic has changed for Roger Mong's PIQuDos seminar on Wed Mar 19 at
> 16:00 in the Time room.  New title and abstract below.  -Gus
>
> Title: *Universal topological quantum computation from a
> superconductor/Abelian **quantum Hall heterostructure*
> Speaker: *Roger Mong* (Caltech)
>
> Abstract: Non-Abelian anyons promise to reveal spectacular features of
> quantum mechanics that could ultimately provide the foundation for a decoherence-free
> quantum computer.  The Moore-Read quantum Hall state and a (relatively
> simple) two-dimensional p+ip superconductor both support Ising
> non-Abelian anyons, also referred to as Majorana zero modes.  Here we
> construct a novel two-dimensional superconductor in which charge-2e Cooper
> pairs are built from fractionalized quasiparticles, and like the Z3 Read-Rezayi
> state, harbors Fibonacci anyons that--unlike Ising anyons--allow for
> universal topological quantum computation solely through braiding.
>
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