Scientific Calendar Event



Starts 12 Mar 2009 11:00
Ends 12 Mar 2009 20:00
Central European Time
ICTP
Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room
Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Effects associated with the existence of isolated zero modes of Majorana fermions are discussed. It is argued that the quantization of this system necessarily contains highly extended (stretched) quantum states and that, populating or depopulating such states by interacting with the quantum system, leads to long- ranged teleportation-like processes. A model consisting of a quantum wire embedded in a p-wave superconductor is discussed as an explicit - and exactly solvable- example of a physical system with isolated Majorana zero modes.
  • M. Poropat