Majorana Modes, Non-Abelian Anyons, and Topological Quantum Computation

July 18, 2012
Sankar Das Sarma | University of Maryland

Speaker Details

Sankar Das Sarma is the Richard E. Prange Chair at the physics department of the University of Maryland. He is also a Distinguished University Professor, a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, and the director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center at Maryland. Das Sarma received his PhD from Brown University in 1979, and has been a faculty member at Maryland since 1980. His undergraduate degree is from Presidency College in Calcutta, India where he was born. Das Sarma has been a consultant at the Microsoft Station Q in Santa Barbara since its inception. Das Sarma’s research interests are the quantum theory of matter, statistical mechanics, and quantum information. His publications and expertise are broad, ranging over topics as disparate as topological quantum computation, fluctuations in financial markets, physics of high-speed transistors, and exotic quantum properties of solids and atoms at ultra low temperatures and in ultrahigh magnetic fields. Das Sarma’s work has been cited more than 28,000 times in the literature and he has mentored more than 100 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows during his career.