Condensed Matter Seminar: "The Story of Anyons"
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Physics - Condensed Matter
- Date
- Mar 25, 2022 1:00 pm
- Speaker
- Steve Simon, Oxford University, UK
- Views
- 144
- Originating Calendar
- Physics - Condensed Matter Seminar
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.