Topological States for New Modes of Information Storage and Transfer

This book reviews evidence for the existence of information storing states present in specific materials systems called Topological Materials. It discusses how quantum computation, a possible technology for the future, demands unique paradigms where the information storing states are just not disturbed by classical forces. They are protected from environmental disturbance, suggesting that whatever information is stored in such states would could be safe forever. The authors explain how the topological aspect arises from the configuration or the shape of energy space. He further explains that the existence of related topological states has not been conclusively established in spite of significant experimental effort over the past decade. And The book as such illustrates the necessity for such investigations as well as application of the topological states for new computational technologies. The scope of coverage includes all the necessary mathematical and physics preliminaries (starting at the undergraduate level) enabling researchers to quickly understand the state of the art literature.

Explains the terminology behind topological states and zero-energy states Explains the necessity for investigating the topological states for information storage states, Makes a link between the scientific discoveries related to the quantum Hall effect,

Autorentext

Dr. Prabhakar Bandaru is a Professor of Materials Science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is also affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Shreyam Natani is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Practical materials systems, and related criteria, for hosting the Majorana modes.- 3. Experimental Investigations of Majorana modes and Majorana bound states (MBS).- 4. Issues related to determination of Majorana fermion related modes.- 5. Suggestions for future experiments.- 6. Outlook <p