Lectures in Quantum Information


May 27, 2009


Nobel prize winner Sir Anthony Leggett will be presenting a series of lectures in Quantum Information at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo.

Building on last year's course (which will be recapped in the first one or two lectures) as a base, Dr. Leggett will address various questions related to the physical (as distinct from the algorithmic) aspects of the effort to build a topologically protected quantum computer.

 

Possible topics include:
The meaning of "two-dimensional":how meaningful is it in real life,and what are the consequences of its partial failure?
The current evidence for and against the "Pfaffian" identification of the =5/2 FQHE state.
Possible ansätze for the many-body wave function of a (p+ip) Fermi superfluid,and their consequences for the viability of TQC in this system.
The nature of Majorana fermions and their relation to ground state entanglement.

 

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