Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics

Programme

This programme is preliminary and subject to change.
Slides and abstracts for some of the presentations are/will be available through the links below.

Monday, September 5

- 9:30 Arrival and Welcome
- 11:00 Coffee
- 14:00 Niall Moran,
Exact ground states of a staggered supersymmetric model for lattice fermions (Abstract/ Slides)
- 14:30 Ville Lahtinen,
Majorana fermion lattices models for interacting non-Abelian anyons (Abstract/ Slides)
- 15:30 Glen Burella,
Double Affine Hecke Algebra and nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials (Abstract/ Slides)
- 16:00 Dario Ferraro,
Anomalous charge tunnelling in fractional quantum Hall edge states (Abstract/ Slides)
- 16:30 Coffee and Poster Session

Tuesday, September 6

- 9:30 Ady Stern,
Fractional topological insulators (Abstract/ Slides)
- 10:30 Olaf Smits,
TBA (Abstract/ Slides)
- 11:00 Coffee
- 11:30 Paul Eastham,
Adiabatic control of many-particle states in ?coupled quantum dots (Abstract/ Slides)
- 12:30 Peter Finch,
Collective states of interacting D(D3) non-Abelian anyons (Abstract/ Slides)
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:30 Eddy Ardonne,
Integrability of anyonic chains with competing interactions. (Abstract/ Slides)
- 15:30 Steve Simon,
Comments on quantum hall interferometry (Abstract/ Slides)
- 16:30 Coffee and Poster Session
- 19:00 Conference dinner in restaurant Avenue (map)

Wednesday, September 7

- 9:30 Sander Bais,
Boundary and Interface states induced by topological symmetry breaking (Abstract/ Slides)
- 10:30 Jesper Romers,
The modular S-matrix as an order parameter for topological phase transitions (Abstract/ Slides)
- 11:00 Coffee
- 11:30 Yuval Oreg,
Majoranas in wire networks (Abstract/ Slides)
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Graham Kells,
Multi-channel Majorana wires: sub-gap scaling and nucleated phase transitions (Abstract/ Slides)
- 15:00 Bernd Rosenow, Observing the topological phase transition in Semiconductor-Superconductor Nanowires (Abstract/ Slides)

Thursday, September 8

- 9:30 Jiri Vala,
Kaleidoscope of topological phases in exactly solvable lattice models (Abstract/ Slides)
- 10:30 Shanna Haaker,
Particles in non-Abelian gauge fields: Landau problem and insertion of non-Abelian flux (Abstract/ Slides)
- 11:00 Coffee
- 11:30 Gunnar Möller,
Neutral Fermion Excitations in the Moore-Read State at Filling Factor \nu=5/2 (Abstract/ Slides)
- 12:30 Robert Ainsworth,
Topological Qubit Design and Leakage (Abstract/ Slides)
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:30 Nicolas Regnault,
From FQHE to fractional Chern Insulators (Abstract/ Slides)
- 15:30 Ivan Rodriguez, Excitations of the Moore-Read-Pfaffian quantum Hall phase (Abstract/ Slides)
- 16:30 Coffee and Poster Session
- 17:30 Kirill Shtengel,
Implementing quantum phase gates with Ising anyons (Abstract/ Slides)

Friday, September 9

- 9:30 Paul Watts,
An Application of Quantum Groups: A Toy Standard Model (Abstract/ Slides)
- 10:30 Mark Howard,
Universal Quantum Computation using Protected Operations and Distillation (Abstract/ Slides)
- 11:00 Coffee
- 11:30 Denjoe O'Connor,
Stability of Kitaev trivalent models (Abstract/ Slides)
- 12:30 Rahul Roy (unconfirmed),
TBA (Abstract/ Slides)