Research Areas
Non Abelian Topological Systems
Non Abelian Topological Systems A fascinating property of many topological phases are collective fractionalized excitations which are highly non-local in nature. These carry fractions of the quantum numbers of the underlying microscopic degrees of freedom; e.g., they can carry fractions of the electron charge. In two spatial dimensions, such emergent excitations can have exotic exchange…
Topological Phenomena in Non-equilibrium Systems
Topological Phenomena in Non-equilibrium Systems The efforts to realize new topological phases have focused mostly on equilibrium systems at zero temperature. The exciting possibility of realizing topological phenomena in out-of-equilibrium systems has been recently proposed in the context systems subjected to periodic external driving forces. A major advantage of this setup is the wider range…
Transport in Strongly Corelated Systems
Transport in Strongly Corelated Systems Materials exhibiting strong electron-electron interactions pose some of the most outstanding puzzles in condensed matter physics. Notable examples are the cuprate high-temperature superconductors and heavy fermion metals. Transport measurements, and specifically the electronic conductivity tensor, are perhaps one of the most accessible probes for studying the properties of these materials.…
Semiconductor sources for photonic quantum computing
Semiconductor sources for photonic quantum computing Photonics has emerged as an arena which holds great potential for realizing a quantum computer. The advanced technology of optical circuits allows for precision measurements and manipulations which are a crucial ingredient in any realization. More importantly, since photons are very weakly interacting, they have little sensitivity to decoherence,…
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