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Dr Jiannis K. Pachos University
Research Fellow of the Royal Society |
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News:
1. The article Revealing
anyonic features in a toric code quantum simulation by J. K. Pachos, W.
Wieczorek, C. Schmid, N. Kiesel, R. Pohlner and H. Weinfurter has been selected
for inclusion in IOP Select.
2. Nanotechweb.org has a news update dedicated to
the article 
-junction qubit in monolayer graphene by
New
events:
Symposium
on Topological Quantum Information
11th and 12th of April 2010
University of Leeds
Contact: Jiannis K. Pachos
Topological Quantum Information Group (part of QI
group)
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Group members: ·
Jiannis K. Pachos (Lecturer) ·
James Wootton (PhD) ·
Ville Lahtinen (PhD) ·
Abbas Al Shimary (PhD) Previous group members: ·
Colin Benjamin (Postdoc) |
Visitors: ·
Sir Michael Atiyah ( ·
Prof Michael Stone (Urbana-Illinois) ·
Prof Gavin Brennen ( ·
Dr Sofyan Iblisdir ( ·
Dr Alastair Kay ( · Dr Dimitris Tsomokos (Royal Holloway) |
Events
9th Symposium on
Topological Quantum Information, 11th to 12th of January 2010,
8th Symposium on
Topological Quantum Information, 29th to 31st
of August 2009,
7th Symposium on
Topological Quantum Information, 30th of March to 1st
of April 2009,
6th Symposium on
Topological Quantum Information, 15th to 17th
of September 2008,
5th Symposium on
Topological Quantum Information, 12th and 13th
of April 2008,
4th
Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 10th
and 11th of December 2007,
3rd
Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 29th
and 30th of June 2007, IQOQI
2nd
Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 6th
and 7th of January 2007,
1st Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, 29th
and 30th of August, 2006,
Research
interests
1. Topological
Quantum Computation
Here is
some useful material related to topological quantum computation:
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Introduction to Topological Quantum
Computation, by Jiannis K. Pachos. Based on lectures given at QIP 2010, ETH,
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Review article Anyons, Quantum Double Symmetry and
Topological Quantum Computation, by Ville Lahtinen.
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Notes on The Toric Code and the Quantum Double,
by Ville Lahtinen.
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Kitaev's talk on
the Honeycomb lattice model (with
audio and webcam).
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Pachos’s talk on The wave function of an anyon (with
audio and webcam).
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Preskill's lecture
notes on Topological Quantum Computation.
2. Quantum information and
optical lattices
3. Quantum information for
many particle and condensed matter systems
4. Geometrical quantum
evolutions
Recent
publications
1. Non-Abelian braid statistics as a holonomy in an
exactly solvable lattice model, V. Lahtinen and J.
K. Pachos, arXiv:0901.3674.
2. Conformally flat Kaluza-Klein spaces,
pseudo-/para-complex space forms and generalized gravitational kinks, P. Maraner and J. K. Pachos, arXiv:0901.2648.
3. Thermal States of Anyonic
Systems, S. Iblisdir, D. Perez-Garcia, M.
Aguado and J. K. Pachos, arXiv:0812.4975.
4. Manifestations of topological effects in graphene, J. K. Pachos, arXiv:0812.1116, to appear in
Contemporary Physics.
5. Centrifugal deformations of the gravitational kink, P. Maraner and J. K. Pachos, arXiv:0812.0068.
6. Non-locality of non-Abelian anyons, G. K. Brennen, S. Iblisdir, J. K. Pachos and J. K. Slingerland, arXiv:0810.4319.
7. Graphene Josephson Qubit, C. Benjamin and J. K. Pachos, arXiv:0808.1979.
8. Yang-Mills gauge theories
from fermionic lattice models, P. Maraner and J. K.
Pachos, arXiv:0807.0826.
9. Scaling law for topologically ordered systems at finite
temperature, S. Iblisdir, D. Perez-Garcia, M. Aguado and J.
K. Pachos, arXiv:0806.1853.
10.
Topological
degeneracy and vortex dynamics in the Kitaev honeycomb model, G. Kells, A. T. Bolukbasi, V. Lahtinen, J.
Slingerland, J. K. Pachos and J. Vala, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101,
240404 (2008), arXiv:0804.2753.
11. Emergence of non-abelian statistics from an abelian model,
J. R. Wootton, V. Lahtinen, Z. Wang and J. K. Pachos, Phys. Rev. B 78,
161102(R) (2008), arXiv:0804.0931.
See talk here.
12. One dimensional stable probability density functions for
rational index 0<α≤ 2, A.
Hatzinikitas and J. K. Pachos, , Annals of Physics, 323, 3000 (2008), arXiv:0803.3973.
13. Detecting entangled states in graphene via crossed
Andreev reflection, C. Benjamin and J. K. Pachos, to appear in Phys. Rev. B. arXiv:0802.3181.
14. Spectrum of the non-abelian phase in Kitaev's honeycomb
lattice model,
V. Lahtinen, G. Kells, A. Carollo, T. Stitt, J. Vala and J. K. Pachos, Annals
of Physics, 323, 2286 (2008), arXiv:0712.1164.
15. Revealing anyonic statistics with multiphoton
entanglement, J. K.
Pachos, W. Wieczorek, C. Schmid, N. Kiesel, R. Pohlner and H. Weinfurter, arXiv:0710.0895.
16. Graphene with geometrically induced vorticity, J. K. Pachos, M. Stone, K. Temme, Phys. Rev. Lett.
100, 156806
(2008), arXiv:0710.0858.
17. Chiral entanglement in triangular lattice models, D. I. Tsomokos, J. J. Garcia-Ripoll, N. R. Cooper,
J. K. Pachos, Phys. Rev. A 77, 012106 (2008), arXiv:0706.3612.
18. Why should anyone care about computing with anyons?, G. K. Brennen and J. K. Pachos, Proc.
R. Soc. A 10.1098/rspa.2007.0026 (2007), arXiv:0704.2241.
19. Universal Features of Dimensional Reduction Schemes
from General Covariance Breaking, P. Maraner and J. K. Pachos, Annals
of Physics 323, 2044 (2008), arXiv:0704.2076.
20. Zero modes of various graphene configurations from the
index theorem,
J. K. Pachos, A. Hatzinikitas and M. Stone, Eur. Phys. J., Special Topics, 148, 127 (2007), quant-ph/0701203.
Lecture
Course
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Example Set 1, Example Set 2, Example Set 3
Contact
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