Quantum Loop Gas Approach to Topological Phases of Correlated Electrons

  • Chetan Nayak | University of California

I will describe a representation of topological states and related critical points which elucidates their relationship to gauge theories, statistical mechanics, and quantum computation.

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Chetan Nayak received his PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1996. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB. He has been a professor at UCLA since July 1997, and has been a visiting professor at Nihon University in Tokyo and a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. His research deals with the properties of correlated electron systems with applications to superconductivity and quantum computing.

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