Kumar Manohar AT-kulut

Quasiparticles are elementary excitations, forms due to the interaction of particles with the environment. For example, when electrons are confined in 2-dimensional space, close to absolute zero temperature, and a high magnetic field, these electrons behave in a strange fashion; they lose their individual characteristics. Many electrons interact with each other to create new kinds of particles with the charge smaller than that of an electron, called fractional quantum Hall states. Moreover, they are neither fermions nor bosons, but a new kind of particle called "Anyons". For the very first time, their quantum statistics were detected by the applicant. In this Academy project, he likes to probe even more exotic particles called non-Abelian anyons. These particles have a memory of their quantum states. That means quantum information could be stored and processed using these exotic particles. He will probe such particles in graphene, a leap in topological quantum computing.