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PIRSA ID: 21120030

Series:

Event Type: Seminar

Scientific Area(s): Quantum Information

End date: 2021-12-15

Speaker(s): Steve Simon University of Oxford - Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

I will review the history of anyons, particles that are neither bosons nor fermions, starting with their theoretical proposal all the way to their definitive experimental observation over 40 years later.  I will further discuss why the more general idea of non-abelian anyons is of intense interest for quantum computation.  If time permits I will give a status report on some of the current non-abelian anyon experiments.

Zoom Link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/98698779123?pwd=SWIyak9OZ0dud2ZGcWdoazdkVURHQT09