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[CM ICTP - Trieste]

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR




Tuesday, 19 February    -    12:30 hrs.



Lecture Room 'D' - SISSA Main Building



P. FENDLEY  ( University of Virginia, Charlottesville )


" Topological quantum computation from non-abelian anyons "




Abstract

I discuss how systems with non-abelian anyons can be used to build a 
topological quantum computer. Operations are performed by braiding the 
anyons; because the outcome of braiding is a purely topological 
property, such quantum computers should be robust against local errors. 
I will give several examples of how such anyons arise in fractional 
quantum Hall systems and in quantum loop models.