Seminar: Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation

HOST: Dr. Arijeet Pal

SPEAKER: Sankar Das Sarma | Director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center | University of Maryland

TIME & VENUE: Thursday | 18 August 2022 | 12:00 PM | A1/3 Physics Building, UCL

TITLE: Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when?

ABSTRACT: Das Sarma will discuss the current status of the search for non-Abelian Majorana zero modes and topological superconductivity in solid state systems, from both experimental and theoretical perspectives.

Das Sarma is the Richard E. Prange Chair in Physics, a Distinguished University Professor, a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), and the Director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. Das Sarma has co-authored more than 800 articles in the Physical Review Journal series of the American Physical Society, including more than 150 publications in Physical Review Letters. Das Sarma co-authored several well-known and highly-cited review articles on spintronics, non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation, graphene, and Majorana zero modes.