Dr Jiannis K. Pachos Reader in Theoretical Physics University of Leeds

News:

1. Experimental detection of Majorana fermions at Delft

2. One million pounds awarded to the University of Leeds for research on Topological Quantum Computation

PhD and Postdoc positions available for September 2012. Contact Jiannis K. Pachos

3. Book: Introduction to Topological Quantum Computation,

Jiannis K. Pachos, Cambridge University Press (Available NOW!!!)

All royalties go to: Leeds Children Charity

4. New Journal of Physics, Focus Issue on Topological Quantum Computation

Co-editors: Jiannis K. Pachos and Steve H. Simon (Oxford). Open for submissions

Topological Quantum Information Group (part of QI group)

How to get here

Group members: Jiannis K. Pachos (Reader) CV Abbas Al Shimary (PhD) James De Lisle (MSc project student) Previous PhD students: Ville Lahtinen (Nordita) James Wootton (Basel)

Visitors: Sir Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh) Prof Michael Stone (Urbana-Illinois) Prof Gavin Brennen (Sydney) Mr Vaclav Zatloukal (Prague)

Selected publications

1. Seeing topological order in time-of-flight measurements,

E. Alba, X. Fernandez-Gonzalvo, J. Mur-Petit, J. K. Pachos, J. J. Garcia-Ripoll,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 235301 (2011), arXiv:1105.2775.

Editors suggestion, Free to read.

See accompanying Physics Viewpoint

2. Bringing order through disorder: Localization of errors in topological quantum memories,

James R. Wootton, Jiannis K. Pachos,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030503 (2011) , arXiv:1101.5900

3. Statistical dynamics of a non-Abelian anyonic quantum walk,

L. Lehman, V. Zatloukal, G. K. Brennen, J. K. Pachos and Z. Wang,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 230404 (2011), arXiv:1009.0813.

4. Cold atom simulation of interacting relativistic quantum field theories,

J. I. Cirac, P. Maraner, J. K. Pachos,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190403 (2010), arXiv:1006.2975.

Events

12th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 6th to 7th of February 2012, Institute of Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands

11th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 4th to 5th of June 2011, NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden.

Royal Society Kavli Meeting on Topology and Physics, 14th to 17th  of July 2010, Chicheley Hall, UK.

10th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 11th to 12th  of April 2010, Leeds, UK.

9th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 11th to 12th of January 2010, Sydney, Australia.

8th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 29th to 31st of August 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.

7th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 30th of March to 1st of April 2009, Paris, France.

6th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 15th to 17th of September 2008, Dublin, Ireland.

5th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 12th to 13th of April 2008, Leeds, UK.

4th Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 10th to 11th of December 2007, Ringberg Castle, Germany.

3rd Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 29th to 30th of June 2007, IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria.

2nd Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 6th to 7th of January 2007, Maynooth, Ireland.

1st Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 29th to 30th of August, 2006, Cambridge, UK.

Research interests

1. Topological Quantum Computation.

Here is some useful material related to topological quantum computation:

Recent talk at MIT on cold atom simulations of quantum field theories

Recent talk at CALTECH & Station Q on topological quantum memories

PhD thesis of Dr Ville Lahtinen.

PhD thesis of Dr James Wootton.

Introduction to Topological Quantum Computation, by Jiannis K. Pachos. Based on lectures given at QIP 2010, ETH, Zurich.

Review article Anyons, Quantum Double Symmetry and Topological Quantum Computation, by Ville Lahtinen.

Notes on The Toric Code and the Quantum Double, by Ville Lahtinen.

Kitaev talk on the Honeycomb lattice model (with audio and webcam).

Pachos talk on The wave function of an anyon (with audio and webcam).

Preskill's lecture notes on Topological Quantum Computation.

Manifestations of topological effects in graphene, Jiannis K. Pachos, Contemporary Physics 50, 375-389 (2009)

2. Quantum information and optical lattices

3. Quantum information for many particle and condensed matter systems

4. Geometrical quantum evolutions

Lecture Courses

Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Lecture Notes

Example Set 1, Example Set 2, Example Set 3

Solutions 1, Solutions 2, Solutions 3

Maths for Physics 3

Lecture notes: notes1, notes2, notes3, notes4

Exercises: Set1, Set2, Set3, Set4, Set5, Set6, Set7, Set8, Set9, Set10, Set11

Solutions: Set1, Set2, Set3, Set4, Set5, Set6, Set7, Set8, Set9, Set10, Set11

Assignments: Set1, Set2, Set3

Solutions: Set1, Set2, Set3

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Contact Information

Address	Room 9.71 School of Physics and Astronomy University of Leeds Leeds, LS2 9JT United Kingdom
Telephone	+44 113 343 3817
Facsimile	+44 113 343 3900
Email	j.k.pachos_at_leeds.ac.uk