Workshop on Majorana Fermions, Non-Abelian Statistics and Topological Quantum Information Processing

Administration

Description

Material

List of Participants PHOTO Programme announcement

Workshop on Majorana Fermions, Non-Abelian Statistics and Topological Quantum Information Processing | (smr 2360)

Go to day

Monday, 20 August 2012
- 08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Administration
  - 08:30 Registration and Administration 1h0'
- 09:30 - 09:40 OPENING
  - 09:30 OPENING 10'
- 09:40 - 10:20 Subgap states in Majorana wires
  - 09:40 Subgap states in Majorana wires 40'
    
    Speaker: Piet W. Brouwer (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
- 10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
  - 10:20 Coffee Break 20'
- 10:40 - 11:20 Near zero energy end states in topologically trivial nanowires
  - 10:40 Near zero energy end states in topologically trivial nanowires 40'
    
    Speaker: D. Meidan (Dahlem Center for Quantum Complex Systems, Germany)
- 11:20 - 12:00 Magneto-Josephson Effects in Junctions with Majorana Bound States
  - 11:20 Magneto-Josephson Effects in Junctions with Majorana Bound States 40'
    
    Speaker: Liang JIANG (California Institute of Technology, USA)
- 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
  - 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
- 14:00 - 14:40 Majorana fermions in nanowires
  - 14:00 Majorana fermions in nanowires 40'
    
    Speaker: Leo Kouwenhoven (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
- 14:40 - 15:20 Majorana Fermions in InSb Nanowire-Superconductor Hybrid Quantum Devices
  - 14:40 Majorana Fermions in InSb Nanowire-Superconductor Hybrid Quantum Devices 40'
    
    Speaker: Hongqi XU (Lund University, Sweden)
- 15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break
  - 15:20 Coffee Break 20'
- 15:40 - 16:20 Evidence of Majorana fermions in an Al-InAs nanowire topological superconductor
  - 15:40 Evidence of Majorana fermions in an Al-InAs nanowire topological superconductor 40'
    
    Speaker: Anindya Das (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
- 16:20 - 17:00 Superconducting proximity effect and interaction-induced zero-energy resonances in a phase-biased Al/InAs/Al junction
  - 16:20 Superconducting proximity effect and interaction-induced zero-energy resonances in a phase-biased Al/InAs/Al junction 40'
    
    Speaker: Vladimir Manucharyan (Harvard University, USA)
- 18:00 - 20:00 WELCOME DRINK
  - 18:00 WELCOME DRINK 2h0'
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
- 09:00 - 09:40 Competing Phases and Thermoelectric Transport in the N=1 Landau Level
  - 09:00 Competing Phases and Thermoelectric Transport in the N=1 Landau Level 40'
    
    Speaker: James P. Eisenstein (California Institute of Technology, USA)
- 09:40 - 10:20 Non-Abelian Properties in Interference Measurement Results at 5/2 Filling Factor
  - 09:40 Non-Abelian Properties in Interference Measurement Results at 5/2 Filling Factor 40'
    
    Speaker: Robert Willet (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA)
- 10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
  - 10:20 Coffee Break 20'
- 10:40 - 11:20 Comments on Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments
  - 10:40 Comments on Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments 40'
    
    Speaker: Steven H. Simon (Oxford University, UK)
- 11:20 - 12:00 Measurement of the Braiding Statistics of Anyons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
  - 11:20 Measurement of the Braiding Statistics of Anyons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect 40'
    
    Speaker: Woowon KANG (University of Chicago, USA)
- 12:00 - 12:20 CONTRIBUTED TALKS: Enhanced zero-bias Majorana peak in disordered multi-subband quantum wires (F. Pientka)
  - 12:00 CONTRIBUTED TALKS: Enhanced zero-bias Majorana peak in disordered multi-subband quantum wires (F. Pientka) 20'
- 12:20 - 14:00 LUNCH
  - 12:20 LUNCH 1h40'
- 14:00 - 14:40 Transition from fractional to Majorana fermions in Rashba nanowires
  - 14:00 Transition from fractional to Majorana fermions in Rashba nanowires 40'
    
    Speaker: Daniel Loss (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- 14:40 - 15:40 CONTRIBUTED TALKS: (1) The `hidden' zero mode in phase slips in topological superconducting wires (D. Pekker) (2) Domain wall kink states in biased bilayer graphene (Eun-Ah KIM) (3) Spin polarization and transport properties in 1D topological superconductors (P. Simon)
  - 14:40 CONTRIBUTED TALKS: (1) The `hidden' zero mode in phase slips in topological superconducting wires (D. Pekker) (2) Domain wall kink states in biased bilayer graphene (Eun-Ah KIM) (3) Spin polarization and transport properties in 1D topological superconductors (P. Simon) 1h0'
- 15:40 - 16:00 Small Break
  - 15:40 Small Break 20'
- 16:00 - 17:00 COLLOQUIUM : The search for Majorana fermions in superconductors
  - 16:00 COLLOQUIUM : The search for Majorana fermions in superconductors 1h0'
    
    Speaker: C. Beenakker (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
- 17:00 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION
  - 17:00 POSTER SESSION 2h0'
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
- 09:00 - 09:40 Seeing and controlling the surface states of a topological insulator with ultrafast lasers
  - 09:00 Seeing and controlling the surface states of a topological insulator with ultrafast lasers 40'
    
    Speaker: David Hsieh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- 09:40 - 10:20 Parity qubits and poor man's Majorana bound states
  - 09:40 Parity qubits and poor man's Majorana bound states 40'
    
    Speaker: Karsten Flensberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
  - 10:20 Coffee Break 20'
- 10:40 - 11:20 Weak anti-localization in a Majorana nanowire
  - 10:40 Weak anti-localization in a Majorana nanowire 40'
    
    Speaker: C. Beenakker (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
- 11:20 - 12:00 Detecting time-reversal invariant topological superconductors by Josesphson effect
  - 11:20 Detecting time-reversal invariant topological superconductors by Josesphson effect 40'
    
    Speaker: Xiaoliang QI (Stanford University, USA)
- 12:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
  - 12:00 LUNCH 2h0'
- 14:00 - 17:00 EXCURSION followed by Conference Dinner
  - 14:00 EXCURSION followed by Conference Dinner 3h0'
Thursday, 23 August 2012
- 09:00 - 09:40 Majorana quasiparticles in hybrid semiconductor structures
  - 09:00 Majorana quasiparticles in hybrid semiconductor structures 40'
    
    Speaker: Sankar DAS SARMA (University of Maryland, USA)
- 09:40 - 10:20 Majorana modes in semiconductor nanowires
  - 09:40 Majorana modes in semiconductor nanowires 40'
    
    Speaker: Roman Lutchyn (Microsoft Station Q, USA)
- 10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
  - 10:20 Coffee Break 20'
- 10:40 - 11:20 Heisenberg-Kitaev model: Topological liquids, order by disorder, and emergent Coulomb phases
  - 10:40 Heisenberg-Kitaev model: Topological liquids, order by disorder, and emergent Coulomb phases 40'
    
    Speaker: Eran Sela (University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany)
- 11:20 - 12:00 Manipulation of coupled Majorana fermions
  - 11:20 Manipulation of coupled Majorana fermions 40'
    
    Speaker: Anton Akhmerov (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- 12:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
  - 12:00 LUNCH 2h0'
- 14:00 - 14:40 Universal transport signatures of Majorana modes in superconductor-Luttinger liquid junctions
  - 14:00 Universal transport signatures of Majorana modes in superconductor-Luttinger liquid junctions 40'
    
    Speaker: Jason Alicea (University of California, USA)
- 14:40 - 15:20 Non-abelian statistics of Fractionalized Majorana Fermions - Part I
  - 14:40 Non-abelian statistics of Fractionalized Majorana Fermions - Part I 40'
    
    Speaker: Erez Berg (Harvard University, USA)
- 15:20 - 16:00 Non-abelian statistics of Fractionalized Majorana Fermions - Part II
  - 15:20 Non-abelian statistics of Fractionalized Majorana Fermions - Part II 40'
    
    Speaker: Netanel H. Lindner (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Friday, 24 August 2012
- 09:00 - 09:40 Topological Josephson junctions out of equilibrium
  - 09:00 Topological Josephson junctions out of equilibrium 40'
    
    Speaker: Julia Meyer (CEA Grenoble, France)
- 09:40 - 10:20 CONTRIBUTED TALKS: (1) Strongly interacting Majorana modes in an array of Josephson junctions (F. Hassler) (2) Transport signatures of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states in spinful quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads (J. Paaske)
  - 09:40 CONTRIBUTED TALKS: (1) Strongly interacting Majorana modes in an array of Josephson junctions (F. Hassler) (2) Transport signatures of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states in spinful quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads (J. Paaske) 40'
- 10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
  - 10:20 Coffee Break 20'
- 10:40 - 11:20 Creation, detection and robustness of Majorana fermions in nanostructured systems
  - 10:40 Creation, detection and robustness of Majorana fermions in nanostructured systems 40'
    
    Speaker: Jay Deep SAU (Harvard University, USA)
- 11:20 - 11:30 CLOSING REMARKS
  - 11:20 CLOSING REMARKS 10'