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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/events/informal-se
 minar-featuring-professor-anthony-leggett
LOCATION:QNC 0101 - Quantum Nano Centre 200 University Avenue West Waterloo
  ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Informal seminar featuring Professor Anthony Leggett\, University o
 f\nIllinois
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PROFESSOR ANTHONY LEGGETT - UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS\n\nOne of th
 e historically earliest proposals for implementing the idea\nof (partially
 ) protected topological quantum computing involves the\nphysical braiding 
 of the Majorana fermions believed to exist in\ntwo-dimensional Fermi super
 fluids in which the order parameter has the\nso-called chiral (\"p+ip\") s
 ymmetry. (For many years a plausible\ncandidate system was single-plane st
 rontium ruthenate\, but recent\nexperiments have somewhat muddied the wate
 rs). The original\ntheoretical paper on this topic (Ivanov 2001)\, and mos
 t of the\nsubsequent literature on it\, uses the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equa
 tions\,\nthereby violating the principle of conservation of total\nparticl
 e number. [http://number.In] In this informal talk I will\nreport on som
 e work with Yiruo Lin* which inter alia attempts to\nexamine how far the s
 tandard conclusions continue to hold when we\ninsist on conserving particl
 e number.
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