Sixth Symposium on Topological Quantum Computation<br> Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies<br> September 15-17, 2008

Sixth Symposium on Topological Quantum Computation

11:00: Coffee/Tea
11:30: Marianne Leitner (DIAS, Ireland)
Boundary states and edge currents for free fermions
12:15: Ahmet Bölükbaşı (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland)
Vortices in Kitaev's Honeycomb Model (Abstract/Slides)
13:00: Lunch
14:30: Grégoire Misguich (Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Scalay, France)
Topological order in Mott insulators and dimer models (Abstract/Slides)
16:00: Coffee/Tea
16:30-17:15: Oliver Buerschaper (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany)
Tensor networks and topological phases

9:30: Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara, USA)
Topological properties of Abelian and non-Abelian quantum Hall states from the pattern of zeros (Slides)
11:00: Coffee/Tea
11:30: Nicolas Regnault (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, CNRS, France)
A colorful approach to the fractional quantum Hall effect
12:15: James Wootton (University of Leeds, UK)
Emergence of non-abelian statistics from an abelian model (Slides)
13:00: Lunch
14:30: Bénoit Doucot (LPTH, CNRS, Jussieu, France)
Physical implementation of protected qubits (Abstract/Slides)
16:00: Coffee/Tea

9:30: Kareljan Schoutens (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Non-abelian anyons: when Ising meets Fibonacci.
11:00: Coffee/Tea
11:30: Gunnar Möller (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)
Quantum Hall effect of bosons in optical lattices (Slides)
12:15: Ville Lahtinen (University of Leeds, UK)
Braid statistics as a holonomy in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model (Slides)