Special Condensed Matter Seminar

Charles Marcus
Harvard University

Tuesday, January 31, 2008
3:00 pm in SPL 56

Minute Fractions: The 5/2 state in a Quantum Point Contact

Abstract: This talk will review experiments by our group and others on measurements of the fractional quantum Hall effect in quantum point contacts. The long road from these results to topological quantum computing will be alluded to.