{"id":3746,"date":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2020\/03\/31\/quantum-computing-with-a-topological-phase-of-matter\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"quantum-computing-with-a-topological-phase-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/quantum-computing-with-a-topological-phase-of-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing with a Topological Phase of Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-647.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-647.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-647.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Christina Knapp<\/p>\n<p>A central tenet of condensed matter physics is that the collective behavior of a system can be drastically different from that of its constituent parts.&nbsp; Topological phases of matter provide an especially dramatic example of this idea: the phase of matter cannot be identified within a local region, but is rather encoded in global properties of the system.&nbsp; As such, topological phases are insensitive to local noise, making them a promising platform for fault tolerant quantum computing.&nbsp; In this talk, we will explore how to build a quantum computer out of a topological superconductor.&nbsp; We will first cover what a topological superconductor is, and the current state of experiments.&nbsp; We will then describe how to build qubits from&nbsp;topological superconductors and their protection from a noisy local environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3746","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}