Enabling Braiding and Fusing of Majoranas Workshop

摘要：该奖项支持当前EAGER奖项获得者的第二次报告会议，重点关注拓扑量子计算。该资助机会于2017年2月与NSF 17-053一起宣布：“亲爱的同事信：资助机会-拓扑量子计算的“量子飞跃”示范”产生了15个资助的EAGER提案，重点是编织领域的研究。第一次会议于2018年春季召开，参加会议的是2017年首届EAGER奖项的“班级”。该奖项支持定于2019年7月第二周举行的第二次会议。研讨会将根据基金成立后头两年的工作成果，对迄今为止取得的成就进行全面的报告和概述，这标志着第一类奖项的最终报告，以及两年的EAGER奖项的第二类的一年报告。技术摘要：为编织提供实验证据是拓扑量子计算转型的必要步骤。生成、控制和编织马约拉纳零模式的能力是这一努力的核心。需要理论支持来设计编织方案，设计和执行算法的方法，并使拓扑量子计算免受共享量子态的非局域特征的局部干扰。由NSF 17-053项目资助的首席研究员会议：“亲爱的同事信：资助机会-拓扑量子计算的“量子飞跃”演示”，将作为报告会议和成果审查，同时也为获奖者提供交流和讨论他们的发现细节和计划下一步的机会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Nontechnical Abstract:This award supports the second report-out meeting of current recipients of the EAGER awards focusing on topological quantum computing. The funding opportunity, announced in February 2017 with NSF 17-053 Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunity - A "Quantum Leap" Demonstration of Topological Quantum Computing" generated 15 funded EAGER proposals focusing on research in the area of braiding. The first meeting was organized in the Spring of 2018, and involved participants of the first "class" of EAGER awards made in 2017. This award supports the second meeting, scheduled for the second week of July 2019. The workshop enables a full report-out and overview of accomplishments so far based on results of work done within the first 2 years of funding existence, which marks the final report for the first class of awards, and 1-year report for the second class of the 2-year EAGER awards. Technical Abstract:Providing experimental evidence for braiding is a needed transformative step towards topological quantum computing. Ability to generate, control and braid Majorana zero modes is central to this effort. Theoretical support is required to design braiding schemes, ways to design and execute algorithms, and enable topological quantum computation protected from local disturbances by non-local character of the shared quantum state. The meeting of Principal Investigators funded through the NSF 17-053 Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunity - A "Quantum Leap" Demonstration of Topological Quantum Computing", will serve as report-out session and review of accomplishments, while also providing an opportunity for the award recipients to exchange and discuss details of their findings and plan next steps.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.